Comprehensive Care for Premature Babies in the Field of Hearing Diagnostics and Follow-Up Educational Care Cover Image

Komplexní péče o předčasně narozené děti v oblasti diagnostiky sluchu a návazné edukační péče
Comprehensive Care for Premature Babies in the Field of Hearing Diagnostics and Follow-Up Educational Care

Author(s): Karel Neubauer, Miroslava Hrbková
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Preschool education, School education, Inclusive Education / Inclusion, Pedagogy
Published by: Vydavateľstvo Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove
Keywords: phoniatrics; audiology; clinical speech therapy; BERA; SSEP; auditory neuropathy; premature babies; complex care center for children with perinatal stress;

Summary/Abstract: The article summarizes the specific experience with the implementation of the cooperationbetween the Phoniatrics Clinic of the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and the General University Hospital in Prague with the first Center of Complex Care for Children with Perinatal Stressin the Czech Republic. Since the establishment of the Center in 2011, this cooperation has fully utilized the possibilities of the program of diagnostics and educational care in the field of hearing and its pathology. The observed set of 2,000 premature children who were diagnosed by the BERA method shows a 1.8% incidence of permanent hearing impairment, i.e., children who were included in the educational care and audiology program (use of hearing aids or cochlear implants).

  • Issue Year: 12/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 66-70
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Slovak