Finding out your sweet newborn baby requires further hearing testing might feel a bit overwhelming for parents. You might be uncertain of what lies ahead but it’s important to follow through with additional testing. After a failed newborn hearing screening, your baby will follow up with a pediatric audiologist where they will perform an Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) test while your little one peacefully sleeps.
In this video, a pediatric audiologist explains:
🟡 What to do if your baby has failed their newborn hearing screening
🟡 What kind of diagnostic hearing test your baby needs
🟡 What happens during the hearing test and the accuracy of the results
🟡 When additional testing is needed to confirm a hearing loss is present
Watch and learn more about how a baby’s hearing is tested!
⏰About Take 10 with a Pediatric Audiologist! Give us 10 minutes (or less!) and we’ll give you answers about childhood hearing loss from an experienced pediatric audiologist. Take 10 is our series designed to give busy parents access to important information, as an expert in pediatric audiology sits down to tell you all about childhood hearing loss, technology, and more.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:55 How to accurately test a baby’s hearing
1:46 Types of hearing tests
2:28 Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR)
3:13 How an ABR test works
3:50 Understanding the results
4:35 Resources and community