Behavioral observational audiometry is applied to study the hearing function of preverbal children aged less than 6 months. We hypothesized that this method could be used to assess hearing threshold in untrained companion dogs. The small number of studies that examine untrained behavioral responses to sounds have not described determination of hearing threshold using this methodology....
✦ Clinical Takeaway ✦
No actionable change for human audiology practice; this is a cross-species methodology study with no direct implication for patient care.
✦ Why It Matters ✦
Extending validated pediatric audiometric methods to veterinary populations could broaden the scientific understanding of behavioral audiometry and open cross-disciplinary research collaborations.
✦ Key Points ✦
- 01Behavioral observation audiometry (BOA), used for preverbal infants <6 months, is adapted for companion dogs.
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