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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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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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Tips for Parents and Grandparents with Hearing Loss
Monday, June 1st 2009
Editor's Note: This article is written by guest contributor Shanna Groves. She is a mother of three who writes extensively about hearing loss issues. As a hard of (H...
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A Discussion of Hearing Problems in Children
Sunday, September 23rd 2007
Five thousand children are born profoundly deaf each year in the United States alone. Another 10 to 15 percent of newborns have a partial hearing handicap.
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''Hearing Aids: Reasonable Expectations for Parents''
Monday, February 24th 2003
Rose L. Allen, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of AudiologyEast Carolina UniversityDept. of Communication Sciences & DisordersGreenville, NC Christine Gilmore Eubanks, Ph.D.Director...
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To Aid or Not to Aid: Children with Unilateral Hearing Loss
Monday, July 29th 2002
INTRODUCTION:Approximately 3 out of 1000 children have unilateral hearing loss (UHL). Historically, audiologists have informed parents of children with UHL of the the...