A website for those working with babies has been launched by the Royal National Institute for Deaf People to support the introduction in some parts of the UK of the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening programme, a new procedure for screening all babies for deafness within 48 hours of birth. The website, at www.deafnessatbirth.org.uk, contains articles on language and communication and ways of supporting deaf babies and their families and development from birth to two years. The existing hearing tests carried out on babies at the age of eight months fail to detect half of the 840 children born deaf each year in the UK.
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