Auditory Brain-stem Response (ABR) Audiometry, also called Brain-stem Evoked Response Audiometry, is an effective procedure for assessing the hear ing of children who cannot or will not perform satisfactorily on behavioral audiotnetric tests. Although ABR audiometry has limitations, it does permit an estimate of hearing status in nearly all children regardless of their age or developmental level.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
Weber BA: The current status of AEA (averaged clectroenceplialic audiometry) with children . Clin Pediatr12:629, 1973
2.
Huang C-M., Buchwald JS: Interpretation of the vertex short-latency acoustic response: a study of single neurons in the brain-stem. Brain Res137: 291, 1977
3.
Mokotoff B., Scliultiian-Galambos C., Galambos R.: Brain-stem auditory evoked responses in children. Arch Otolaryngol103:38, 1977
4.
Jerger J., Mauldin L.: Prediction of sensorineural hearing level from the brain-stem evoked response . Arch Otolaryngol104:456, 1978
5.
Starr A., Amlie RN, Martin WH, Sanders S.: Development of auditory function in newborn infants revealed by auditory brain-stem potentials. Pediatrics60:831, 1977
6.
Don M., Eggermont JJ: Analysis of the click-evoked brain-stem potentials in man using high-pass noise masking. J Acoust Soc Am63:1084, 1978
7.
Kodera K., Yamane H., Yamada O., Suzuki J.- I: Brain-stem response audiotnetry at speech frequencies. Audiology16:469, 1977
