Weekly Press Release of Istanbul Gelisim University (Issue 136) (February 7-11, 2022)

The Academic Member, Dr. Nurten Küçük, of the Audiology Department of the Vocational School of Health Sciences of the Istanbul Gelişim University indicated that the hearing tests, carried out on new-born infants and at the childhood age, play an effective role in the prevention of the hearing loss. The Academic Member, Dr. Nurten Küçük, of the Istanbul Gelişim University, who underlined the importance of the scanning BERA hearing tests, conducted by the Ministry of Health and carried out on every new-born infant, indicated that the BERA test making it possible to determine the congenital hearing losses at an earlier period also gave opportunity for the measurement of the degree of the hearing loss.