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Newborn screening misses some deaf kids

Newborn screening misses some deaf kids

New research provides further evidence that some babies who pass their newborn hearing tests are found to be deaf or hard of hearing as young kids.

Some of those newborns may receive passing grades incorrectly, researchers said, but others can be born with good hearing but develop progressive hearing loss as babies and toddlers.

«A parent or a physician may think, ‘Oh, this child had passed the screen, so they must not have hearing loss,'» said Dr. David Chi, the study’s lead author from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pennsylvania.

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