Why is It Crucial for Children’s’ Hearing Aids to Be Correctly Programmed?
Hearing aids play a crucial role in a child’s development, enabling them to engage fully in their environment, interact with others and acquire language skills. Properly programmed hearing aids are essential to maximize these benefits when a child has hearing loss and ensure the child’s hearing needs are met effectively. Here’s why correct programming is…
Tips To Help Your Child Adjust To Hearing Aids
Change can be difficult for many children, and adapting to hearing aids is no exception. Approximately 14.9% of children ages six to 19 have low- or high-frequency hearing loss of at least 16 decibels in one or both ears. One way to help your child through their experience with hearing loss is to give them…
How to Help Your Child with Hearing Loss Navigate Social Situations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that approximately 15% of school-age children have low- or high-frequency hearing loss of at least 16 decibels in one or both ears. If your child is among this population, you may be concerned about their social development. This post reviews tips on how to help your child…
Can Secondhand Smoke Cause Hearing Loss?
Pediatric hearing loss can be caused by a number of factors, including: genetic issues prenatal problems premature birth otitis media (ear infection) illnesses physical trauma exposure to loud noises medications The Study Researchers from Japan looked into another possible cause – cigarette smoke. The study, published in Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology looked at the data…
Children and Headphones
Children in the Tucson, Arizona area and around the country are at a growing risk of developing hearing loss. In fact, the number of Americans with hearing loss has doubled within the past 30 years. This may be caused by the increase in use of personal music players. The danger of personal music players is…
Helping Children Hear
I recently had the opportunity to go on a “hearing mission” in the Baja region of Mexico. An organization called Corazon de Vida (corazondevida.org) helps organize support for a group of orphanages in this part of Mexico. The support comes in many forms: cleaning supplies for the orphanage, personal hygiene items, funding for education, etc….