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Speech Language Pathology & Audiology

General Information and Guidelines

American Academy of Audiology (AAA). (2012). Audiologic Guidelines for the Assessment of Hearing in Infants and Young Children.

British Columbia Early Hearing Program (BCEHP). (2012). BCEHP Audiology Assessment Protocol, Version 4.1. 

College of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists of Ontario (CASLPO). (2008). Practice Standards and Guidelines for Hearing Assessment of Children by Audiologists. 

Ontario Infant Hearing Program (OIHP). (2008). Audiologic Assessment Protocol, Version 3.1. 

Reference Texts

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Screening

Newborn Hearing Screening 

The scope of this page is hearing screening for children ages 0-6 months of age.The content of this Portal page is based on ASHA's Expert Panel Recommendations on Newborn Hearing Screening.

Relevant research

Roth, Hildesheimer, Bardenstein, Goidel, Reichman, Maayan-Metzger, & Kuint. (2008). Preauricular Skin Tags and Ear Pits Are Associated With Permanent Hearing Impairment in NewbornsPediatrics, (122)4: e884-e890; doi:10.1542/peds.2008-0606. Request

Acoustic Reflexes

Berlin CI, Hood LJ, Morlet T, Wilensky D, John PS, Montgomery E, Thibodaux M. (2005). Absent or Elevated Middle Ear Muscle Reflexes in the Presence of Normal Otoacoustic Emissions: A Universal Finding in 136 Cases of Auditory Neuropathy/Dys-synchrony. J Am Acad Audiol, 16: 546-553. Request

Gelfand SA. (2009). The acoustic reflex. In: Katz J, Medwetsky L, Burkard R, Hood L, eds. Handbook of Clinical Audiology, 6th ed. Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; pp. 189-221. (See Reference Textbooks above). Request

Mazlan R, Kei J, Hickson L (2009). Test-Retest Reliability of the Acoustic Stapedial Reflex Test in Healthy Neonates. Ear & Hearing , 30(3), 295-301. 

Visual Reinforcement Audiometry

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). (2004). Guidelines for the Audiologic Assessment of Children from Birth to 5 Years of Age. 

Cunningham, M. & Cox E.O. (2003). Hearing assessment in infants and children: recommendations beyond neonatal screeningAmerican Academy of Pediatrics, 111(2), 436-440.

Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) Clinical Group. (2014). Visual Reinforcement Audiometry Testing of Infants: A Recommended Test Protocol, Version 2.0.

Widen JE, Folsom RC, Cone-Wesson B, Carty L, Dunnell JJ, Koebsell K, et al. (2000). Identification of neonatal hearing impairment: hearing status at 8 to 12 months corrected age using a visual reinforcement audiometry protocol. Ear Hear. 21, 471-87. 

Pediatric Amplification

AHS Pediatric Amplification Reference Paper for fitting children in the province of Alberta (birth – 17 years) with personal amplification (2013).