Marlene Bagatto|Sheila Moodie|April Malandrino|Frances Richert|Debbie A. Clench|Susan Scollie
The University of Western Ontario Pediatric Audiological Monitoring Protocol (UWO PedAMP)
Western University|Western University|Valley Health System|Western University|Valley Health System|Western University
study proposed evaluated guideline outcome evaluation infants children hearing loss wear hearing aids university western ontario pediatric audiological monitoring protocol uwo pedamp developed following critical review pediatric outcome evaluation tools systematically examined network pediatric audiologists canada consists tools gather clinical process outcomes well functional caregiver reports uwo pedamp administered clinical population infants children hearing aids sixtyeight children administered functional outcome evaluation tools ie caregiver reports total 133 times clinical process outcomes hearing aid verification eg realeartocoupler difference revealed typical aided audibility eg speech intelligibility index results littlears questionnaire revealed typically developing children hearing loss wear hearing aids meeting auditory development milestones children mild moderate comorbidities displayed typical auditory development 1st year life development began decline children complex factors related hearing aid use lower scores littlears auditory development parallel norms parents evaluation auraloral performance peach results indicated age effect scoring children 2 years age however effect degree hearing loss significant work provides clinicians systematic evidencebased outcome evaluation protocol implement part complete pediatric hearing aid fitting