Management of non-organic hearing loss in children - A case study
Piotr Henryk Skarzynski1, Danuta Raj-Koziak2, Joanna Jadwiga Rajchel2
1World Hearing Center, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw, Kajetany, Poland; Heart Failure and Cardiac Rehabilitation Department, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; Institute of Sensory Organs, Warsaw, Kajetany, Poland.
Abstract:
A 10 year-old girl was admitted due to the claim of progressively developing hearing loss. The impedance audiometry showed no abnormalities but it was impossible to obtain reliable outcomes during pure tone audiometry assessment. The girl was additionally sent for speech audiometry, indicating a bilateral hearing loss and objective evaluations such as distortion product otoacoustic emissions and auditory brainstem responses, which results indicated a normal hearing. On the second day, repeated subjective audiometric tests showed also normal hearing, despite constantly reported hearing loss. After the psychological consultation and exclusion of neurologic pathology, the diagnosis of non-organic hearing loss was stated and the girl was scheduled for regular appointments with psychologist.
