Letter to the Editor

Abstract

In their recent Pediatrics commentary entitled "Universal Screening for Infant Hearing Impairment: Not Simple, Not Risk-Free, Not Necessarily Beneficial, and Not Presently Justified," Bess and Paradise argue that "universal screening is ill-considered and at this time ill-advised." Bess and Paradise state their general objections to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Statement on Early Identification of Hearing Impairment, and then express their concerns about the rationale for early intervention for infant hearing impairment and about current infant screening tests.