Audiograms and Prevalence of Hearing Loss in U.S. Children and Adolescents 6-19 Years of Age.

For children and adolescents in the United States, hearing was unaffected by differences in sex and race/ethnicity, with only age impacting pure-tone thresholds and only at the lowest (500 Hz) and highest (8000 Hz) frequencies examined. The overall prevalence of hearing loss was about 11%.