Monitoring of the auditory pathway maturation after early intervention during the first year of life in infants with sensorineural hearing loss.

Farnaz Matin Sabine Haumann Willi RoßbergD MitovskaThomas Lenarz Anke Lesinski-Schiedat

Published in: European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (2020)

An early intervention using optimally fitted HA influenced auditory pathway maturation and may lead to improvements of hearing thresholds during the first year of life in infants. This study underscores the importance of not only providing HAs to infants, but also controlling for hearing threshold changes ensuring that HAs provide the optimal level of intervention or CI is indicated.

Keyphrases

randomized controlled trial
hearing loss
working memory