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How will I know if my child's hearing aids are working properly?
Tuesday, February 21st 2012
Parental involvement is very important when it comes to successful hearing aid fittings for children.
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Cochlear Implants in Children Boasts High Success Rate
Friday, February 3rd 2012
Study shows low cochlear implant failure, re-implantation rate in children.
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Hearing Impaired Children: Bone-Anchored Hearing Aids Prove Helpful
Friday, March 4th 2011
Researchers discover that bone-anchored hearing aids are an effective treatment for children with bilateral or unilateral hearing loss.
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Hearing Aids For Children: New Oticon Safari Super Power
Saturday, November 6th 2010
The Oticon Safari Super Power hearing aid is designed exclusively for children. It comes equipped with high quality components essential for children with severe-to-profound hearing loss.
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Are there hearing aids made specifically for children?
Tuesday, October 26th 2010
Some hearing aid manufacturers have developed hearing aids for children, such as the Oticon Safari.
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Pediatric Hearing: Oticon Pediatrics Conferences 2010
Sunday, September 12th 2010
The recent 2010 Oticon Pediatrics Conferences focused on making it easier to help children with hearing loss achieve their full potential by addressing children’s abilities, needs and desires at every stage of their development.
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AG Bell Listening and Spoken Language Specialists: 2 New Board Members
Saturday, July 31st 2010
AG Bell Listening and Spoken Language Specialists (LSLS) work with children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families to develop spoken language and literacy through listening.
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Hearing Impaired Children: Parents Online Find Info, Support & Advice
Monday, July 26th 2010
Parents of children with hearing loss often struggle to find guidance on raising their children with unique needs. One new website has opened up the lines of communication, offering advice and support to families of children with hearing loss.
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Hearing Aids for Children: Oticon Ear Gear Mini Curved
Monday, July 19th 2010
Ear Gear Mini Curved Corded in beige has been chosen by Oticon Pediatrics to be included in all of their Pediatric kits from birth to 18 years of age.
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Hearing Impaired Children: 5.2 Million Kids and Counting
Monday, June 7th 2010
By the time children reach school age, one in 20 have hearing loss in one ear and they have poorer oral language scores. If caught early, hearing loss in children need not become so severe as to impair their development.
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Hearing Problems in Children: Mobile Study Seeks Volunteers
Sunday, June 6th 2010
A University of Iowa research study on hearing loss in children is going mobile with 2 testing vans. Researchers will assess children ages 6 months to 6 years with permanent hearing loss in both ears, ranging from mild to severe.
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Child Hearing Loss: Falling Behind in Language Skills
Thursday, June 3rd 2010
By the time they reach school age, 1 in 20 children have hearing loss in one ear. That can raise significant hurdles for these children because loss of hearing in one ear hurts their ability to comprehend and use language.
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Hearing Impaired Children: Family Camp Celebrates 25 Years
Saturday, May 22nd 2010
Family Camp continues to be a popular program for children with hearing loss offering a comfortable, supportive atmosphere that fosters both verbal and sign language communication. It also helps build self-esteem, friendships, and respect for each other’s differences and decisions.
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Phonak Asks Young FM Users to Tell their Story on YouTube
Friday, March 5th 2010
Murten, Switzerland, February 2009 - Phonak, leading hearing systems manufacturer, has launched a new YouTube contest ? named 'My Phonak FM & Me'...
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Oticon Pediatrics Helps Kids Stay Plugged In to Fun with New Child Friendly Comic Book Series
Thursday, February 4th 2010
Thomas, the hero of the new Plugged In comic strip, is a typical fun-loving...
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Oticon Introduces First Family of Hearing Instruments Exclusively for Children and Teens with Hearing Loss
Thursday, November 5th 2009
New Oticon Safari provides a comprehensive family of dedicated child-friendly hearing instruments for the journey through childhood and...
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Dolphin Inspires Young Girl to Wear Her Hearing Aids
Sunday, October 25th 2009
McKenna McGough, a 10-year-old Texas girl born with a hearing loss, was embarrassed to wear her hearing aids until she saw an injured dolphin at a Clearwater FL aquarium. The...
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Oticon Foundation Funds AG Bell's Parent Advocacy Training Program
Monday, October 19th 2009
AG Bell announced today that it has been awarded a three-year, $150,000 grant from the Oticon Foundation (The William Demant and Wife Ida Emilie Foundation) to support the...
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Oticon Pediatrics Donation Supports Hands & Voices 'Guide By Your Side' Program
Tuesday, September 22nd 2009
Somerset, September 14 - A donation from Oticon Pediatrics to Hands & Voices, a nationwide parent-driven organization devoted to serving families with children from birth to...
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Callier Launches New Clinic for Pediatric Patients
Friday, September 18th 2009
Doctoral Students in Audiology Receive Hands-On Training in Hearing Aid Clinic Sept. 10, 2009
The UT Dallas Callier Center for Communication Disorders recently launched a new...
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Winter's Tale: What a dolphin and a little girl teach us about hearing aids
Monday, August 17th 2009
Being born with hearing loss made 10-year-old McKenna McGough feel like a fish out of water. "Lots of my friends didn't have hearing aids, and it made me feel really...
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Sound Beginnings - Offering Hope to Children with Hearing Loss
Sunday, August 2nd 2009
Approximately one in six per 1,000 newborns screened in the United States have congenital hearing loss and could benefit from early intervention. However, only 11 states...
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ASHA Podcast Offers Parents Tips On Infants And Hearing Aids
Monday, June 22nd 2009
ASHA Podcast Offers Parents Tips On Infants And Hearing Aids Consistency Of Use Important For Speech, Language Development
(Rockville, MD - May 26, 2009) The barriers and...
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Program Improves Language Skills in Deaf, Hard of Hearing
Sunday, June 14th 2009
Monday, May 04, 2009 - Children enrolled before they are six months old in a home-based program that teaches language skills to the deaf or hard of hearing are not only able to...
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Camp for Children With Hearing Loss and Their Families Offers Weekend of Fun
Wednesday, June 10th 2009
Los Angeles, CA - June 2, 2009 - The House Ear Institute, HEI, established Family Camp 24 years ago as a comfortable, open forum where parents raising a child with hearing loss...
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