Probably the most common out of the congenital problems for which babies can be tested is abnormal hearing.
Considering how two to four babies per 1,000 enter this world with a significant hearing impairment, the condition is actually 20 times more frequent than phenylketonuria, a metabolic problem for which new-borns are routinely screened.
Involving a range from 14 months to 2 1/2 years are the estimates concerning the average age at which a serious hearing impairment is diagnosed.
You can say that this sounds early enough but no.
According to the director of the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders in Bethesda, Maryland, people did not always accept the fact that their brains were already developing the capacity for language even though babies were only a few weeks old.
A great opportunity to learn language is lost when it comes to babies if they receive no language input during a critical window of time, in this case a time that stretches back to birth.
Allowing for a good chance of communicating normally, either in sign or spoken language by the time he or she begins school, is early detection but if the situation is that which involves late detection and intervention then a long, dreary game of catching up ahead is what follows.
What a professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder and lead author of the studies said was that there is always hope even if it becomes more of a challenge if a child's problem is discovered late.
Hearing advocates are pressing for across the board screening for hearing problems in new-borns and this is why they are doing it.
What was said by the director of government relations for the American Speech Language Hearing Association, a professional group that advocates early screening, was that given the baby boom let surge that the US is experiencing right now infant screening is highly necessary.
Already enacting legislation for universal new-born screening programs are several states.
It is possible to test the hearing of an adult with this.
What people do here is press buttons and parrot back phrases in response to the sounds they hear when the audiologists put them in booths.
It's another matter to test the hearing of a baby.
In this case, since there is an odd property of the ears that has been discovered and appreciated only in the past few decades, a baby's ears can do the talking.
When it comes to the ears, they can receive and emit sounds.
In response to noises, the source of these sounds which are the outer hair cells in our ears actually cause our ability to hear to be sharpened.
As a result, the movements vibrate the eardrum; sending noises back out into the world.
The noises that the ears normally make when exposed to sound are low level, we can't even hear them.
However, they're loud enough for instruments to detect.
Considering the essence of screening for hearing problems in new-borns, this means dealing with sounds that are not generated.
For this process, a click of sound is sent into a baby's ear and then a little microphone detects any sound coming out and technicians only need a few minutes to finish it.
It is detecting anything from mild to profound hearing loss that is possible with this test.
Considering how two to four babies per 1,000 enter this world with a significant hearing impairment, the condition is actually 20 times more frequent than phenylketonuria, a metabolic problem for which new-borns are routinely screened.
Involving a range from 14 months to 2 1/2 years are the estimates concerning the average age at which a serious hearing impairment is diagnosed.
You can say that this sounds early enough but no.
According to the director of the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders in Bethesda, Maryland, people did not always accept the fact that their brains were already developing the capacity for language even though babies were only a few weeks old.
A great opportunity to learn language is lost when it comes to babies if they receive no language input during a critical window of time, in this case a time that stretches back to birth.
Allowing for a good chance of communicating normally, either in sign or spoken language by the time he or she begins school, is early detection but if the situation is that which involves late detection and intervention then a long, dreary game of catching up ahead is what follows.
What a professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder and lead author of the studies said was that there is always hope even if it becomes more of a challenge if a child's problem is discovered late.
Hearing advocates are pressing for across the board screening for hearing problems in new-borns and this is why they are doing it.
What was said by the director of government relations for the American Speech Language Hearing Association, a professional group that advocates early screening, was that given the baby boom let surge that the US is experiencing right now infant screening is highly necessary.
Already enacting legislation for universal new-born screening programs are several states.
It is possible to test the hearing of an adult with this.
What people do here is press buttons and parrot back phrases in response to the sounds they hear when the audiologists put them in booths.
It's another matter to test the hearing of a baby.
In this case, since there is an odd property of the ears that has been discovered and appreciated only in the past few decades, a baby's ears can do the talking.
When it comes to the ears, they can receive and emit sounds.
In response to noises, the source of these sounds which are the outer hair cells in our ears actually cause our ability to hear to be sharpened.
As a result, the movements vibrate the eardrum; sending noises back out into the world.
The noises that the ears normally make when exposed to sound are low level, we can't even hear them.
However, they're loud enough for instruments to detect.
Considering the essence of screening for hearing problems in new-borns, this means dealing with sounds that are not generated.
For this process, a click of sound is sent into a baby's ear and then a little microphone detects any sound coming out and technicians only need a few minutes to finish it.
It is detecting anything from mild to profound hearing loss that is possible with this test.