Application-Based Hearing Screening in the Elderly Population.

Objectives: The effects of age-related hearing loss are severe. Early detection is essential for maximum benefit. However, most hearing-impaired adults delay obtaining treatment.

Universal newborn hearing screening in Zefat, Israel: the first two years.

Objective: Unidentified hearing loss at birth can adversely affect speech and language development as well as academic achievement and social-emotional development. Historically, moderate-to-severe hearing loss in young children was not detected until well beyond the newborn period. Around 0.