Hearing Aids for Children

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Families of children with hearing loss ages newborn to 14 years are invited to Clarke's Family Weekend July 24th - July 26th to get together with other families, participate in...

Greatest choice of Phonak models to support children in realizing their full potential Stafa, Switzerland, April 1st 2009 - Phonak offers a complete junior product...

Program gives the gift of sound to children in need Piscataway, N.J., March 16, 2009 - Siemens Hearing Instruments, Inc., one of the largest manufacturers of hearing instruments...

Announcement made by Siemens at Quota's 90th anniversary event Aurora, Co., February 19, 2009 - Siemens Hearing Instruments, Inc., one of the largest manufacturers of hearing...

Phonak Optimizes the 'Junior Mode' for Perfect Pediatric FittingLeipzig, Germany, October 15, 2008 - The version 2.2 of the iPFG fitting software from Phonak provides new...

SOMERSET, NJ October 2 When Oticon Pediatrics scheduled a knowledge-sharing weekend focusing on More of What Children Need, the proximity to the nations created an unant...

Washington, DC Newswise Children with severe to profound hearing loss under evaluation for cochlear implantation have traditionally been given a three to six month aid tr...

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.

Somerset, NJ June 16 The path to adulthood can be rocky and teens need the support of a caring network to help them stay on track. For teens with added challenge of hearing...

Somerset, JUNE 4 Parents of youngsters who are newly identified with hearing loss often have a myriad of questions and need to absorb a considerable amount of new information t...

My son is 3 and half years old and hearing impaired. He doesn't let me fix his earmold inside his ear; I am consistently trying but he repeatedly removes it. Please give me some suggestions.

My son is now one year old and was diagnosed with unilateral hearing loss when he was born. Now that he is starting to talk, I wonder is there anything I can do to help him with his speech. He does not show signs of difficulties yet, but I want to give

FREE resource now available shows positive outcomes for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Philadelphia, PA - June 7, 2005 A new free resource and film about oral educ...

My two year old son was recently diagnosed with a moderate to severe hearing loss. He is now wearing two hearing aids. How will I know if the hearing aids are working properly? And how will I know if/when they need to be adjusted?

Rose L. Allen, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of AudiologyEast Carolina UniversityDept. of Communication Sciences & DisordersGreenville, NC Christine Gilmore Eubanks, Ph.D.Director...

World-Class Medical Capabilities of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Further Expanded to New Jersey Families PHILADELPHIA /PRNewswire/ -- The Children's Hospital of...

INTRODUCTION:Approximately 3 out of 1000 children have unilateral hearing loss (UHL). Historically, audiologists have informed parents of children with UHL of the the...

Noisy Classrooms Add to Learning Difficulties for Students with Hearing Problems (ROCKVILLE, MD) Children with hearing loss expend more effort in listening than their normally...

I have a 5 yr. old with chronic ear infections. He is currently on his 7th set of PE tubes. He wears bilateral hearing aids. He also has a t-cell immune deficiency and receives IV-IG every three weeks as well as prophylaxis rotating antibiotics. He has si