The Family Physician and the Preschool Hearing-Handicapped Child

摘要

There are many clues which should lead a family physician to suspect deafness in young children brought to his office. When this suspicion is aroused, he can refer these children to the nearest diagnostic centre where new techniques are available to confirm this diagnosis. Engineering research has made powerful hearing aids available which can be worn by young children and which assist to a significant degree their acquisition of language skills.