TY - BOOK AU - Purdy, Suzanne TI - Aided Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials for Hearing Instrument Evaluation in Infants N2 - Why We Need Objective Methods for Hearing Instrument Evaluation in Infants With the widespread implementation of universal newborn hearing screening programs there is a need for reliable, objective techniques for fitting and evaluating hearing instruments in young infants. After hearing loss is diagnosed, fitting of hearing instruments can occur when infants are as young as five weeks old (Yoshinaga-Itano 2004). At this stage of development it is difficult to assess hearing using behavioral techniques and it is not yet known which hearing instrument fitting approach is optimal in such young infants (Snik and Stollman 1998). Because of the lack of reliable behavioral information audiologists may be tempted to fit hearing instruments “conservatively” in young infants, with less gain and output than would normally be prescribed for children and adults who are able to give reliable behavioral responses while wearing hearing instruments UR - https://dspace.nal.gov.au/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/970/Purdy%20et%20al%20-%20Sound%20Foundations%20-%20uncorrected%20proof.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y ER -