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Hearing trials

Published on
August 30, 1996
Last updated
May 27, 2015

Detecting hearing problems in newborn babies may reduce the number of children with delayed language development, according to scientists at Southampton University. Researchers have drawn this conclusion from a trial involving 42,000 babies over a three-year period.

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