A commonly used newborn hearing test shows promise in the early detection of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), new research shows. Results from one of the largest studies of its kind show the auditory ...

Newborn hearing screening is the standard of care in hospitals nationwide. The primary purpose of newborn hearing screening is to identify newborns who are likely to have hearing loss and who require ...

Researchers who explored responses to the standard hearing test administered to millions of newborns around the world are closing in on a way to detect early indicators of autism -- perhaps as early ...

For years, researchers have known through numerous studies that hearing and other sensory systems of adults and children who have autism differ from children or adults without autism. Now, University ...

For some time now, researchers have been aware that children and adults with autism tend to have different sensory systems to those without the condition. Now, researchers from the University of Miami ...

Among 121 infants with congenital CMV infection, 12 (10%) had clinical findings at birth that were consistent with symptomatic congenital infection, 5 had multisystem disease (1 died within the first ...

Auditory brainstem response (ABR) testing is widely used in auditory research to non-invasively assess the integrity and function of the auditory pathway, from the cochlea to the brainstem. It ...