Medical Risk Factors Associated with Listening Difficulties in Children

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Do medical risk factors found in infants and toddlers predict listening difficulties in 6-12 year old children? Our data showed that prematurity, head injury and extended high frequency hearing loss were predictors that could be detected early in life and might thus be able to lead to earlier intervention to prevent later listening difficulties. The provided datasets show

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These data were gathered as part of the SICLiD research program. For details of methods see Moore et al., 2024, medRxiv, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.02.24314796; Petley et al, Ear and Hearing, 2021, 42, 1640-1655. PMID 34261857

Institutions

• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

  Ohio, Cincinnati

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Funders

• National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

  National Institutes of Health

  Bethesda

  Grant ID: DC014078, DC018734
• National Institute for Health Research

  London

  Grant ID: NIHR203308
• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

  Cincinnati

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