Prevention of communication disorders - screening pre-school and school-age children for problems with hearing, vision and speech: European consensus statement

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Skarzyński, Henryk ^a   Piotrowska, Anna ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY OF HEARING   (Poland)

Author keywords

Communication disorders; Consensus statement; Hearing loss; School age children; Screening

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPIA; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EMMETROPIA; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; LEARNING; MYOPIA; OTOTOXICITY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCREENING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SPEECH DISORDER; STRABISMUS; UNILATERAL HEARING LOSS; VIRUS INFECTION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84859538276     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/MSM.882603     Document Type: Article

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