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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Nina Massey

New test could reassure parents their baby’s hearing aids are working

PA Media

The parents of the one in a 1,000 newborn babies with hearing loss might soon have the reassurance that their children’s hearing aids are picking up speech thanks to a new test.

University of Manchester scientists travelled across the UK in a research van to assess The Cortical Auditory Evoked Potential test –  or Cortical test – on 103 babies aged three to seven months.

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