Table 2.

Data for ages (in months) at service delivery for children identified by the newborn hearing screening (NHS) and children who were later-identified.

Variable	Identified by NHS (n = 23)				Later-identified (n = 15)
	M	Mdn	SD	Range	M	Mdn	SD	Range
Age at service delivery
First evaluationa	10.54	2.00	19.15	0.5–60.0	37.75	44.00	15.93	2.5–60.0
Confirmationb	17.40	2.75	23.21	0.5–61.0	45.53	46.00	11.49	24.0–62.0
Hearing aid fittingc	21.17	6.00	23.06	2.0–67.0	48.56	51.00	12.64	30.0–66.0
Early interventiond	6.82	6.00	4.06	2.5–16.0	22.75	24.00	9.50	10.0–33.0
Delays between follow-up services
First evaluation to confirmation	6.86	0.75		7.78	2.00
Confirmation to hearing aid fitting	3.77	3.25		3.03	5.00

^aNHS group, n = 20; later-identified group, n = 14.

^bNHS group, n = 22; later-identified group, n = 15;

^cNHS group, n = 21; later-identified group, n = 9.

^dNHS group, n = 14 (one due to reasons other than HL); later-identified group, n = 4 (two due to reasons other than HL).