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Congenital sensorineural hearing loss is one of the most common health concerns, and affects 11% of children. 1) Unilateral sensorineural hearing loss (USNHL) is commonly not recognized until early grade school and affects approximate-ly 0.1-3% of children. 2,3) USNHL is underestimated because patients with USNHL show normal development in speech and language. 4) As a result, they are not evaluated using imaging studies to determine causes of hearing loss and no active intervention occurs.Recent studies have suggested that children with USNHL have scholastic or behavioral problems in school. 5) Lieu reported that school-aged children with USNHL demonstrated worse oral language scores than did their siblings with nor-