| The detection of hearing impairment and deafness | | | | diagnosis of deafness should have ascertained before |
| should be done since someone is still a baby. The | | | | the age of 3 months so that the installation of hearing |
| detection can be done by parent in a simple way. This | | | | aids can be begun since the age of 6 months. |
| can be done by making a simple experiment toward | | | | Further, there are some things that make an infant has |
| the baby. | | | | high-risk hearing loss and deafness. The things are a |
| In checking the hearing ability of a baby, parent can do | | | | baby with a birth weight less than 1500 grams, a |
| it by making a sound around him and see whether | | | | pregnant woman who uses drugs such as tuberculosis |
| there is a response from him or not. When there is a | | | | drugs and antibiotics, and a pregnant woman who |
| response, then the baby has a normal hearing ability. | | | | received chemotherapy. Instead of those things, other |
| Generally, not all cases of hearing loss at birth are | | | | things that make infant has high risk hearing loss are |
| known. This is because not all parents check their | | | | bacterial meningitis, cholestasis and the use of |
| baby's hearing ability. Thus, they do not know whether | | | | ventilator for more than five days. |
| the baby has this hearing disorder or not. | | | | When a baby has three of those things then it is likely |
| There are some indications that parents need to know | | | | he will experience deafness fifty to sixty times more |
| to detect hearing loss in infants. For example, the baby | | | | than non-risk infant. Additionally, infants that are treated |
| sleeps nicely although there is loud sound around him | | | | in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) have ten times |
| or if a six-month-old baby can babble but he cannot | | | | the risk of hearing loss compared to those who are |
| respond when there is sound. Those are two | | | | not treated in the NICU. |
| examples that sign a baby has hearing loss. | | | | Since hearing loss detection is an important thing to do, |
| The detection of hearing impairment and deafness has | | | | parent should pay attention to this matter very |
| to be started before the baby out of the hospital or at | | | | carefully. In this matter, they should do the detection in |
| the age of two days. Or, the hearing loss should be | | | | order to make sure that their baby does not have this |
| detected at the latest at the age of 1 month if the | | | | hearing disorder. |
| baby born outside the hospital. In this matter, the | | | | |