Test-Retest Reliability of Mismatch Negativity and Late Discriminative Negativity Response in Children With Listening Difficulties.

The aim of the study was to determine the test-retest reliability of MMN and LDN recorded to simple speech contrasts in children with listening difficulties. MMN and LDN responses were recorded from Fz and Cz electrodes for a /da/-/ga/ contrast twice within a 10-day period. To extract MMN and LDN, auditory-evoked responses to /ga/ stimuli presented alone were subtracted from the responses to /ga/ presented within an oddball sequence.

Clinical and cost-effectiveness of paramedics working in general practice: a mixed-methods realist evaluation.

Background: General practice services are under pressure due increased demand. Alongside substantial national recruitment challenges, there exists a shortage of general practitioners to meet current need. Resultingly, allied healthcare professionals, including paramedics, are being utilised in general practice.

Caregiver response types and children language outcomes in preschoolers with and without hearing loss in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Recent advances in audiological early intervention and hearing technologies have significantly improved access to spoken language for children with hearing loss (CwHL), but many CwHL require additional support to match the language development of their peers with normal hearing (PwNH). Programmes such as It Takes Two to Talk®, the Hanen Program® and Talking Matters focus on supporting parents to enhance children's language development in natural environments. Analysis of response types has become a significant trend, facilitated by technological developments like Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA®), which provides uninterrupted recordings and automated calculations of adult-child interactions.

A treatment-focused approach to medical investigations for hearing loss in infants.

This integrative review synthesises two related but distinct fields: and . Both fields involve medical evaluations for permanent hearing loss, yet they differ in their perspectives, timing, and target populations. By integrating these bodies of literature, this review introduces a novel, treatment-focused approach to the medical investigation of permanent prelingual hearing loss.