While early vestibular assessment in infants with SNHL could enable more personalized and ‘deficit-specific’ rehabilitation plans, arguments against its widespread implementation include the role of connexin 26 gene mutations that leave the vestibular system without anomaly, cost-effectiveness concerns, and the lack of large-scale studies providing substantial evidence to support its inclusion in UNHS programmes [1]. Here, GJB2 is linked to sensorineural hearing loss disorder.