ABSTRACT Newborn hearing screening programs are an application that gives individuals with hearing loss the chance to learn in a natural auditory way and to improve their speech development as soon as possible. Hearing loss comes along with many deficiencies. Receptive and expressive language disorders negatively affect areas such as language-related learning disorders, speech disorders, social communication, academic achievement, and cognitive development. National newborn hearing screening programs in our country Turkey are newborn hearing screening and school age hearing screenings.