Menu

@ 2023 FSDB
The website is owned by Foundation for
Speaking Deaf Babies.

The 1-3-6 Rule

Hearing screening within 1 month of birth

Diagnosis within 3 months

Begin early intervention services within 6 months

Research done by Dr. Yoshinaga-Itano,

“Language of Early- and Later- identified children with hearing

loss, Pediatrics (1998) 102 (5): 1161–1171”

Early Hearing Detection and Intervention

(EHDI) benchmarks, US CDC