Abstract:
Early identify of hearing difficulties and/or disabilities among newborns are very essential to
provide or guide them to further management and/ or rehabilitation options as soon as
possible. Hence it is vital step to natural growth of speech and language without any failures.
For the study three (3) midwifes were selected by using cluster sampling method. Midwifes
were asked to provide list of mothers who become first time mothers during last twelve
months time. Sixty (60) mothers were selected by simple random sampling methods via the
list of names which was given by midwifes of each district of western province. Selected
mothers were asked to complete questioners. The questioner was mainly in two parts;
including personal details and the knowledge of identification hearing difficulties among the
infants. Based on the information which was given by participants data analyzed by
manually. Manually analyzed data concluded that maternal awareness of the identification of hearing
difficulties among infants was not affected by geographical area of the mothers or age of the
mothers. But it was highly influenced by the level of education of the participants. Readiness
or/ and willingness of the acceptance of the new information through professionals or social
and public Medias are predisposed by Education level of the mothers‘. Even though they
reached their Ordinary Level education, it was not helped to achieve satisfactory level of the
score for the questionnaires regarding readiness or/ and willingness of the acceptance of the
new information through professionals or social and public Medias of deification of
newborns‘ hearing difficulties and /or hearing disabilities by themselves. Respectively it was
below 75%. Further there should be national protocol to promote raising awareness among
mothers to early identification of their newborns‘ hearing difficulties by themselves.
Therefore, usage of island- wild data prevalence is must hence to create more convenient
picture regarding the results of the study.
