TY - JOUR
T1 - Asymmetric and unilateral hearing loss in children
AU - Vila, Peter M.
AU - Lieu, Judith E.C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a T32 Training Grant #T32DC000022 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the St. Louis Children’s Hospital Foundation/Children’s Surgical Sciences Institute.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
PY - 2015/7/2
Y1 - 2015/7/2
N2 - Asymmetric and unilateral hearing losses in children have traditionally been underappreciated, but health care practitioners are now beginning to understand their effect on development and the underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms. The common wisdom among medical and educational professionals has been that at least one normal-hearing or near-normal-hearing ear was sufficient for typical speech and language development in children. The objective of this review is to illustrate, to the non-otolaryngologist, the consequences of asymmetric and unilateral hearing loss in children on developmental and educational outcomes. Etiology, detection, and management are also discussed. Lastly, implications for further research are considered.
AB - Asymmetric and unilateral hearing losses in children have traditionally been underappreciated, but health care practitioners are now beginning to understand their effect on development and the underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms. The common wisdom among medical and educational professionals has been that at least one normal-hearing or near-normal-hearing ear was sufficient for typical speech and language development in children. The objective of this review is to illustrate, to the non-otolaryngologist, the consequences of asymmetric and unilateral hearing loss in children on developmental and educational outcomes. Etiology, detection, and management are also discussed. Lastly, implications for further research are considered.
KW - Asymmetric hearing loss
KW - Children
KW - Unilateral hearing loss
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U2 - 10.1007/s00441-015-2208-6
DO - 10.1007/s00441-015-2208-6
M3 - Review article
C2 - 26004144
AN - SCOPUS:84933677929
SN - 0302-766X
VL - 361
SP - 271
EP - 278
JO - Cell and Tissue Research
JF - Cell and Tissue Research
IS - 1
ER -