Neonatal hearing screening in a low-risk maternity in São Paulo state.

Introduction: The literature indicates that neonatal hearing screening should be universal, so a description of programs that adopt this recommendation is relevant.

Objective: To describe the results of newborn hearing screening and the profile of mothers and newborns attended to in a low-risk maternity setting, and to correlate the characteristics of this population with the results of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions.

Methods: A contemporary cross-sectional cohort study.

Sound pressure level in a municipal preschool.

Aim:  To evaluate the sound pressure level to which preschool students are exposed.

Method:  This was a prospective, quantitative, nonexperimental, and descriptive study. To achieve the aim of the study we used an audio dosimeter.