Abstract
Development of speech and language skills in children depends greatly on the effective hearing function. Early detection of any auditory deficit and institution of rehabilitation measures are the key to success in the total management of such hearing handicaps. Twenty at risk children were studied and their hearing function evaluated employing auditory brainstem evoked response technique (ABER). Auditory deficit was detected with the help of this technique as early as at 1 month of age. The risk factors in this study chiefly included hydrocephalus, neonatal jaundice requiring, exchanged blood transfusion, head injury during childhood and congenital ear deformity. Auditory evoked response technique provides the most reliable objective information about the hearing threshold of a child normal or handicapped. It can assess hearing function even at birth and thus it greatly helps in the management of hearing handicapped children at an early date.
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