Poster:  Is Your Infant “At Risk” for Hearing Loss?  

 Has your baby experienced one or more of the following “risk factors” by 6 months of age?


* Family concerned regarding hearing, speech, language or delay in development.  
* Family history of permanent childhood hearing loss.  
* Born before or during the 30th week of pregnancy.  
* Birth weight was less than 3 lbs. 
* Experienced a lack of oxygen after birth.  
* Needed a machine to help him/her breathe.  
* Spent 48 hours or more in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).  
* Head, face, or ears shaped or formed in a different way than usual.  
* Head injury.  
* Infection that was present at birth or shortly after birth.  
* Jaundice (hyperbilirubinemia) needing special procedure (exchange transfusion).  
* Was given medicine that may damage hearing. 
* Illness that might result in hearing problems.  
* Frequent ear infections (more than four episodes in one year).  
* Chemotherapy 


Call 735-2466 
For more information and to schedule your baby’s FREE Well-Baby Hearing Check-Up! 

www.guamehdi.org

This poster was reproduced with 100% funding support by the Guam Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (Guam EHDI) Project, Grant Number 2H61MC00094-05-00, Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resource and Services Administration and facilitated by the University of Guam, Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service (Guam CEDDERS).