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HEARING SCREENING The hearing loss is diagnosed in three of every thousand babies born. The congenital hearing loss or deafness can be diagnosed in newborns with no known risk factors for it. For these reasons, in all developed countries universal hearing screening programs are launched and screening is performed in maternity hospitals and maternity wards of medical facilies. The hearing screening study is done using OAE technique. Early idenficaon of babies with hearing loss allows performing right treatment and mely intervenon. The earlier the correcve measures are taken, the easier are the language acquision and development of health speech. In addion, the majority of children suffer from middle ear infecons that are the most common for infants and toddlers. In most cases os media can cause transient or fluctuang hearing loss. But persistent infecon or persistent fluids in the middle ear may result in permanent hearing loss. It is recommended that a child’s hearing should be checked repeatedly during each of the first years of life because hearing is central to a child’s language development and communicaon.