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A study carried out by the Ladies in the Van.<\/p>\n

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Developing new hearing tests to better understand how well babies hear speech through their hearing aids.<\/p>\n

Babies typically have a hearing check within the first days of life, meaning hearing loss can be diagnosed and hearing aids prescribed within just a few weeks.<\/p>\n

We can’t reliably test a baby’s hearing by watching how they respond to sounds until they are at least 7 months old, and the test they have as newborns is not so good for older babies, nor for testing via hearing aids.<\/p>\n

That means that for babies who are 3-7 months old, a new type of hearing test is needed to help understand how well these babies are hearing all the speech sounds needed to develop good language skills.<\/p>\n

Researchers known as the Ladies in the Van travelled the UK in our Mobile Research Unit between 2016 and 2020. They used this new Cortical Auditory Evoked Potential (CAEP) test on over 100 babies with hearing loss.<\/p>\n

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  1. What we did and our findings<\/a><\/li>\n
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    Watch our video to find out more about the study.<\/p>\n

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    What we did and our findings<\/h2>\n

    We investigated different aspects of hearing loss in babies. Our findings have been published in research journals.<\/p>\n

    Below is a summary of what we did, with links to the full research papers.<\/p>\n

    New test sounds<\/h3>\n

    The first thing the study team did was develop new types of sounds to use in the CAEP test (known as the ManU-IRU stimuli).<\/p>\n

    The sounds were designed so that hearing aids would treat them like speech and not background noise. They are also each focused on a specific pitch, so that we can learn about exactly which pitches babies can and can’t hear.<\/p>\n

    We developed the sounds and showed that they work well for testing via hearing aids.<\/p>\n