The U.S. Preventive
Services Task Force (USPSTF), an independent panel of professionals in the
fields of primary care and prevention that develops recommendations for
clinical preventive services, recently released its report
on newborn hearing screening. Although the USPTF concluded, “The
evidence is insufficient to recommend for or against routine screening of
newborns for hearing loss…” they did state that they “found good
evidence that newborn hearing screening leads to earlier identification and
treatment of infants with hearing loss.”
Read the full
article about the Task Force recommendation published in JAMA (Journal
of the American Medical Association)
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Responses from various
organizations and newspapers are listed below. Please use the highlighted
links to view the articles and/or statements from these organizations.
American
Speech-Language- Hearing Association (ASHA)
American
Academy of Audiology (AAA)
Washington
Post
Health
Scout News
National
Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM): Provides
additional comments and links to articles about the Task Force
recommendation
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Date:
April 04, 2007
Content source: National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental
Disabilities
