Newborn Hearing Screening: Multimedia

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Further Reading

Keywords

hearing loss, congenital hearing loss, universal hearing screening, universal newborn hearing screening, UNHS, infant hearing screening, auditory brainstem response, ABR, automated auditory brainstem response, AABR, otoacoustic emissions, OAE, evoked otoacoustic emissions, transient evoked otoacoustic emission, TEOAE, distortion product otoacoustic emission, DPOAE, brainstem auditory evoked response, BAER, auditory steady state response, ASSR, high-risk register, HRR, newborn hearing screening

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Anne M De Michele, PhD, Senior Audiologist, Coordinator of Infant Hearing Screening Program, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Virginia Health System
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Roger A Ruth, PhD, Director of Communication Disorders, Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Virginia
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