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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 28 — The Ministry of Health (MoH) is looking to strengthen audiology services by increasing the number of officers in specialist hospitals, improving staffing,...
There remain significant road blocks in access to specialty care for children with hearing loss, and even more road blocks in access to hearing aids.
No two families are the same, and neither are their needs. These local services, specialists and groups are here to help.
Rachel Glade, program director for the Communication Sciences and Disorders Program, is one of the team leaders in a multi-organizational project to improve hearing screenings for newborns.
This review article summarizes the chronological history of newborn hearing screening (NHS) implementation in Japan. Beginning with experimental pilot programs implemented in the early 2000s, efforts have been made to establish NHS throughout the country. The results of and responses to these pilot programs are introduced, analyzed, and discussed. Data reported annually, from 2014, by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (MHLW), introduce the overall progress achieved in NHS throughout the country. The most recently published MHLW report, from 2019, cites a screening rate of 9...