Open AccessHearing testing in autistic spectrum disorder: is it unnecessary in low and middle-income countries?
Author(s) -
Adel M. Zeglam,
Samah M. Al-Ksaik
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
eastern mediterranean health journal/eastern mediterranean health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1687-1634
pISSN - 1020-3397
DOI - 10.26719/2020.26.2.176
Subject(s) - autism spectrum disorder , audiology , auditory brainstem response , sensorineural hearing loss , low and middle income countries , hearing loss , medicine , autistic spectrum disorder , psychiatry , pediatrics , autism , developing country , economics , economic growth
In low and middle-income countries where the health care is in a weakened state, spending money on unaffordable and probably unnecessary investigations might be substituted by a reliable, simple and more informative tool that can deal with the problem.