Speech perception testing, defined as providing standardized speech stimuli and requiring a
listener to provide a behavioral and scored response, has been an integral part of the …

Background: While meaningful sound exposure has been shown to be important for
newborn development, an excess of noise can delay the proper development of the auditory …

Background High‐risk newborns, such as premature or severely ill infants, often experience
painful treatments and separation from their parents. While previous studies have focused …

(1) Background: Preterm infants spend their first weeks of life in the hospital partially
separated from their parents and subjected to frequent potentially painful clinical …

Objective To assess changes and deficits in language and auditory exposures consequent
to preterm birth and neonatal intensive care unit stay compared with exposures in utero …

Background: It has long been understood and acknowledged that the Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit (NICU) environment and the transport environments are extremely loud, with both …

Synopsis According to the World Health Organization,∼ 15 million children are born
prematurely each year. Many of these infants end up spending days to weeks in a neonatal …

The superior temporal sulcus (STS), one of the first sulci visible during brain development, is
a key region for human communication, notably hosting linguistic functions in the left …

In utero, the growing fetus is subject to low-frequency noises. However, the high-risk
neonate experiences much harsher sounds in the extrauterine environment. Despite many …

Identificar estratégias protetoras do sono do recém-nascido dirigidas ao ruído numa
Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Neonatais. Revisão da Literatura tendo por base artigos …