Hearing Loss
It's a parent's nightmare: "My baby can't hear?" Find out what can be done about it, and the options that parents have to help their hearing-impaired children live full, productive lives.
Guests:
- Amanda Massab - Hearing-Impaired Teen
- Josephine Massab - Mother of hearing-impaired teen
- Jamie Curtis - Mother of hearing-impaired child
- Chris Li - Father of hearing-impaired infant
- Louis Z. Cooper, MD - President, American Academy of Pediatrics
- Laurie Hanin, Ph.D. - Audiologist
- Mary W. Chang, MD - Started to lose hearing in college
Guest Credentials:
Louis Z. Cooper, MD
- President, American Academy of Pediatrics
- Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University
Laurie Hanin, Ph.D., CCC-A
- Co-Executive Director, League for the Hard of Hearing
- Member, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- Member, American Academy of Audiology
Mary W. Chang, MD
- Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics, NYU Medical Center
Tips:
HEARING MILESTONES
Birth to 3 Months
- Startled by loud sounds
3-6 Months
- Begins to turn to sounds
7-9 Months
- Begins to babble
9-12 Months
- Understands "no" and "bye-bye" 12-18 Months
- Uses a few single words
By 24 Months
- Forms simple phrases
EXAMPLES OF NOISY TOYS
- Certain rattles and squeaky toys
- Musical toys, such as electric guitars, drums and horns
- Toy phones for small children
- Toys which are designed to amplify the voice
- Toys producing firearm sounds
Resources:
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
http://www.asha.org/League for the Hard of Hearing
http://www.lhh.org/Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing
http://www.agbell.org/Boys Town National Research Hospital
http://www.babyhearing.org/
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