Teaching Advocacy
This week I attended the Pediatric Audiology Conference run by the Children’s Hearing Institute. It was a wonderful meeting. Joan Hewitt and I did a 3 hour course on the LMH test. It was the first time we got to really discuss it with an audience and it was great. I also got to listen…
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Helping Kids Explain Hearing Loss
When children are little, parents explain about their child’s hearing loss. When someone asks “What are those things in his ears?”, parents say something like “those are his hearing aids, they help him hear better.” If children ask more questions, we might add something like “Some people wear eyeglasses to help them see better and…
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