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Infant Hearing Screening The aim of this assignment is to examine the benefits of infant hearing screening tests and to look at initiatives set up through the child Health Surveillance programme. It will demonstrate how the infant hearing screening tests are incorporated into the general health promotion programme targeted at children and carers and evaluate how effective it is in a community setting. The specific case that will be examined in this assignment will include twenty two month old twins who were originally assessed by their Health Visitor at eight months of age and were referred to an Audiologist for a hearing test. Following two non-attendances at the Audiologist department, the Health Visitor, using the Schedule of Growing Skills (SOGS), again assessed the twins at twenty-two months old. The twins scored extremely low in most areas including Hearing and Language skills and the Health Visitor again referred the twins to an audiologist...

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