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The clinical application of oto-acoustic emissions in paediatric audiological assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Margaret Baldwin  and
P. Watkin
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Abstract

The value of otoacoustic emissions as an objective screening test for normal peripheral auditory function in infants is currently the subject of extensive and promising research. Additionally the measurement of cochlear emissions is potentially useful when children cannot be tested reliably by traditional subjective methods but confirmation of normal hearing is diagnostically important. Three groups of children are described who present such audiological dilemmas: children with non-organic hearing loss, children with severe learning difficulties and more rarely children with an abnormal auditory brainstem response who also have damage to the central nervous system. In all three groups otoacoustic emission testing was found to be diagnostically useful in determining normal peripheral auditory function thereby resolving some of the dilemmas facing paediatric audiology and ENT clinics.

Keywords

Oto-acoustic emissionsAudiology, paediatric
Type
Main Articles
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 106 , Issue 4 , April 1992 , pp. 301 - 306
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1992

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