Reading and communication skills after universal newborn screening for permanent childhood hearing impairment

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 293-297

  McCann, D C ^a   Worsfold, S ^b   Law, C M ^c   Mullee, M ^b   Petrou, S ^d   Stevenson, J ^a   Yuen, H M ^b   Kennedy, C R ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNICATION SKILL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN SCREENING; PERMANENT CHILDHOOD HEARING IMPAIRMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED KINGDOM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEONATAL SCREENING; READING;

EID: 64849099419     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2008.151217     Document Type: Article

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