GladChild: Hearing loss in infants who studied American and Australian scientists showed that the deaf are the most frequent abnormality found in newborns. Recent data attach that in America, between 3-6 baby from 1,000 births in the detection suffer from hearing disability. While in Australia, shows rates from 1.3 to 3.1 per 1,000 births.
The development of hearing in a child begins in the first 6 months of birth, until the age of 2 years. Impact of deafness itself will be very big for a child's life in the next, because the child makes it difficult to communicate and interact with their environment. For it is very important for parents to check the baby's hearing impairment, due to deafness or hearing impaired is one of the many abnormalities occur. Typically, severe hearing loss that occurs in both ears can be directly realized by the parents, but what about hearing loss with low or moderate levels?
Newborns that have experienced a high likelihood of Hearing loss in infants include:
- Family history or ancestry,
- Ear deformity, face and head,
- Infection during pregnancy,
- Birth weight less than 1,500 grams,
- Infants whose condition requires treatment in hospital.
