Newborn hearing screening is the standard of care in hospitals nationwide. The primary purpose of newborn hearing screening is to identify newborns who are likely to have hearing loss and who require ...

A commonly used newborn hearing test shows promise in the early detection of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), new research shows. Results from one of the largest studies of its kind show the auditory ...

For some time now, researchers have been aware that children and adults with autism tend to have different sensory systems to those without the condition. Now, researchers from the University of Miami ...

Parents and physicians now have an alternative to sedating infants to get an accurate hearing assessment. The Speech and Hearing Center offers Auditory Brainstem Response testing using high-tech ...

A simple, routine test may be able to detect autism in newborn children, researchers say. Tests regularly given to newborns to screen for hearing loss could also offer clues about whether they are on ...

For years, researchers have known through numerous studies that hearing and other sensory systems of adults and children who have autism differ from children or adults without autism. Now, University ...

Auditory brainstem response (ABR) testing is widely used in auditory research to non-invasively assess the integrity and function of the auditory pathway, from the cochlea to the brainstem. It ...

Race/ethnicity, insurance type, and primary language may pose barriers to timely access to hearing aids among children, according to a new retrospective cohort study published October 10 in JAMA ...

Researchers who explored responses to the standard hearing test administered to millions of newborns around the world are closing in on a way to detect early indicators of autism -- perhaps as early ...