Newborn Hearing Screening | 合法醫療器材資訊網

2019年4月25日—Sincethen,therehasbeenarapidincreaseinthenumberofuniversalnewbornhearingscreening(UNHS)programswhichhavebeenimplemented ...

Last Modified: 06/15/2023

Left undetected, hearing impairments in infants can negatively impact speech and language acquisition, academic achievement, and social and emotional development. If detected, however, these negative impacts can be diminished and even eliminated through early intervention. Because of this, the National Institutes of Healths (NIH) Consensus Development Conference on Early Identification of Hearing Loss (1993)[1] concluded that all infants should be screened for hearing impairment, preferably prior to hospital discharge.

At the time of the NIH Consensus Development Conference, there were only 11 hospitals screening more than 90 percent of their babies. Since then, there has been a rapid increase in the number of universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) programs which have been implemented in the United States. ...