Narrative
Around 800 children are born each year in England with congenital permanent bilateral hearing loss and significant consequences for language development and social-emotional wellbeing. A 15-year programme of inter-disciplinary research made the case for the implementation of universal newborn hearing screening in England; now the NHS standard of care. Our subsequent studies developed a model of professional practice adopted internationally. Our tools to evaluate service quality have been adapted for use in the US, Canada and Australia. We have trained over 500 professionals in 6 countries| Impact date | 2014 |
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| Category of impact | Health impacts |
| Impact level | Benefit |
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Research output
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Universal newborn hearing screening and early identification of deafness: Parents' responses to knowing early and their expectations of child communication development
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Effectiveness of population-based newborn hearing screening in England: Ages of interventions and profile of cases
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The design and validation of a parent-report questionnaire for assessing the characteristics and quality of early intervention over time
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review