Open AccessReading Proficiency Trends Following Newborn Hearing Screening Implementation
Author(s) -
Christine Yoshinaga-Itano,
Craig A. Mason,
Mallene Wiggin,
Scott D. Grosse,
Marcus Gaffney,
Phillip M. Gilley
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.611
H-Index - 345
eISSN - 1098-4275
pISSN - 0031-4005
DOI - 10.1542/peds.2020-048702
Subject(s) - medicine , hearing loss , reading (process) , test (biology) , population , longitudinal study , intervention (counseling) , cohort , audiology , environmental health , nursing , paleontology , pathology , political science , law , biology
To investigate trends in population-level school-aged reading scores among students with hearing loss in an urban Colorado school district after implementation of universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS) and Early Hearing Detection and Intervention.