The city intends to offer the voluntary program to children in low-income families, as determined by newborn screening assessments.

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The doctors performed a newborn screening test and when I was 10 days old they called to inform my mom.

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In South Carolina, where the Ross family lives, roughly 4% of infants fail the newborn hearing screening, according to Ross.

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