Sound: Hearing Test

Series

Series Name: Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

201

Date Released

1977

Length of issue (in feet)

519

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: Hearing tests are vital for young children, to discover early on if their hearing is impaired; without them, a child may never develop proper speech. Routine tests have always been inconclusive, but a new one, using an inert muscle behind the ear, has proved definitive. The muscle is the same one used by animals to twitch their ears in response to sound.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Children; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/201

Credits:

Sponsor: Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor: Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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