New Brain Mapping Tests For Hearing Impaired Babies
New Brain Mapping Tests For Hearing Impaired Babies...
By David Caird
07 September, 2017
New Brain Mapping Tests For Hearing Impaired Babies
New Brain Mapping Tests For Hearing Impaired Babies...
By David Caird
07 September, 2017
New Brain Mapping Tests For Hearing Impaired Babies
New Brain Mapping Tests For Hearing Impaired Babies...
By David Caird
07 September, 2017
New Brain Mapping Tests For Hearing Impaired Babies
New Brain Mapping Tests For Hearing Impaired Babies...
By David Caird
07 September, 2017
New Brain Mapping Tests For Hearing Impaired Babies
New Brain Mapping Tests For Hearing Impaired Babies...
By David Caird
07 September, 2017
The brains of babies will be mapped to test — in a new way — whether hearing aides and cochlear implants are working, to ensure hearing-impaired children can develop the parts of the brain needed for speech and language.
The new BABILab at Melbourne’s Bionics Institute will use skull caps encased with sensors to measure areas of the brain that are active when babies are engaging in hearing and language tasks, to provide a new objective hearing test.
Comparing these scans to the brain patterns of infants with normal hearing, they will then work to tweak the levels of hearing aid devices in children too young to explain what they can hear.
Head of translational hearing research at the Bionics Institute, Professor Colette McKay said current hearing tests were an “approximate best guess” of how well infants were hearing, with the devices adjusted over time as the child could give more feedback.
But there’s a great need to treat hearing loss in a tailored way because each deaf child had a different reason why their hearing was impaired. 


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