Children with permanent hearing loss and associated disabilities: Revisiting current epidemiological data and causes of deafness

Volta Review

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 221-236

  Picard, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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