Hearing and Kids

  Today’s blog is written by Stacey Lim, Au.D., Ph.D., CCC-A. Dr. Lim, a licensed audiologist, is an assistant professor of audiology at Central Michigan University. She was identified with hearing loss at the age of 10 months and was fitted with her first pair of hearing aids a month later. She received a cochlear implant at the age of 18. After

At the recent Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EDHI) meeting there was, as always, a lot of hallway discussion about auditory-verbal therapy vs sign language. Some of the deaf participants said that, in their view, asking deaf kids to use listening was an indication that the parents (and professionals) did not accept the children as deaf. Their view, if I

The National Association for the Deaf (NAD) has reported on a serious case of discrimination. Megan Runnion, a 12-year-old girl who is deaf, has filed a federal lawsuit against the Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana for refusing to provide her with a sign language interpreter. The lawsuit was brought under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and was

This week’s post is written by my good friend and colleague Dimity Dornan. Dr. Dornan is the Executive Director and Founder of Hear and Say, an auditory verbal center in Brisbane, Australia. Her degrees and certifications are as follows: AO, Associate Professor UQ, PhD UQ, HonDUniv USQ, BSpThy, FSPAA, CpSp, LSLS Cert AVT   Auditory-Verbal Therapy has been shown to

The Facts About Pediatric Hearing Loss Hearing loss is the most common disability of children, worldwide. Every year, 670,000 children are born with hearing loss. Hearing loss cannot be viewed in isolation. Hearing loss causes problems for auditory brain development. When a child with hearing loss is born, she has already had 20 weeks of auditory deprivation. Normal-hearing babies When

We all know that technology is terrific. It really is. Hearing aids, cochlear implants and BAHA’s provide great access to speech and other auditory stimuli. BUT, we also know that there are a lot of situations in which a child with hearing loss cannot hear well. Hearing aids, cochlear implants and BAHA’s work well when the talker and listener are

People with hearing loss have trouble hearing when they are at a distance from the person speaking, when it is noisy, and in public places. For children, this can be a particularly serious problem because children need to hear clear loud speech all of their waking hours if they are going to succeed in developing the auditory brain and learn

Dear Readers: During this holiday season, the editors at Hearing Health & Technology Matters (HHTM) are taking some time off. However, we are not leaving you without anything to read on our blog this week. Instead, we are publishing a special holiday edition filled with what we call our Readers’ Choices. HHTM has had more than half a million page

How do parents know if their children with hearing loss are receiving enough assistance? I frequently hear from parents who are concerned about how their children are performing. The parents report that they have done what has been recommended but their children do not seem to be doing as well as they think they are capable of doing.   NEWS

Nina Kraus and Samira Anderson have demonstrated the value of music for improving auditory skills. Their research has indicated that music training enhances the neural coding of speech. They suggest that community-based music programs can improve auditory learning and facilitate sound to meaning resulting in improved academic performance and auditory based communication skills.   Student studies in Los Angeles Students