If you see babies and their parents coming into 621 Skytop Road, they are most likely being escorted down the hall to Dr Prieve’s Pediatric Audiology Laboratory.  Her current project is a team effort with Neonatology at Crouse Hospital in Syracuse and colleagues at Vanderbilt University.  Dr. Linda Hood and Dr. Prieve are multi-PIs on an R01, funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders/National Institutes of Health/Department of Health and Human Services, entitled ‘Modeling Auditory Responses and Behavioral Outcomes in Preterm Infants’.

This study grew out of clinical observations that Auditory Brainstem Responses (ABRs) in infants referred for diagnostic testing from newborn hearing screening programs were different in many ways from those in the literature.

Full article on SU News to come!