Month: March 2019

Dr Anne-Marie Tharpe For decades, audiologists, speech-language pathologists, teachers, early interventionists, and parents have puzzled over the impact of unilateral hearing loss on children.  After all, one might assume that one normal hearing ear ought to be sufficient for hearing...
  • March 8, 2019
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Dr Anne-Marie Tharpe Despite the best efforts of all stakeholders, many children with hearing loss maintain deficits in the areas of speech perception and psychoeducational development relative to their normal hearing peers. A possible contributor to those deficits could be...
  • March 8, 2019
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Authors Dr Teresa YC Ching1, Ms Laura Button, Ms Patricia Van Buynder, Ms Sanna Hou, Ms Vivienne Marnane, Ms Louise Martin, Ms Jessica Sjahalam-King, Mr Christopher Flynn, Dr Vicky Zhang;  (National Acoustic Laboratories, Sydney, Australia) Background: Universal newborn hearing screening...
  • March 8, 2019
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Dr Teresa YC Ching1, Dr Harvey Dillon, Mr Mark Seeto, Ms Patricia Van Buynder, Ms Laura Button, Ms Vivienne Marnane (National Acoustic Laboratories, Sydney, Australia) Background: Universal newborn hearing screening has been implemented to detect permanent childhood hearing loss early,...
  • March 8, 2019
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Tim Moore   The first 1000 days – the period from conception to the end of the child’s second year – is the period of greatest developmental plasticity, and what happens during this time can have life-long consequences for health...
  • March 5, 2019
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