Delayed identification of hearing loss in a six-and-one-half year old child: A case study

This is a description of a child whose severe high frequency sensorineural hearing loss was undetected until she was six-and-one-half years of age although she had been evaluated repeatedly between the ages of three months and five years by an inter-disciplinary professional team. It is suspected that several factors combined to reduce the effectiveness of the evaluation procedures followed by the members of the examining team.