Unidentified or late identified hearing impairment has significant implications for the speech-language, cognitive and scholastic development of the child.
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Teaching deaf babies sign language improves the success of cochlear implants – and also safeguards their long-term physical and mental health.
Exposure to loud noise is the biggest preventable cause of hearing loss.
Listening with the volume too high or for too long can cause permanent hearing loss, but there are ways we can minimise the risks.
In most developing countries hearing services are not available at primary healthcare clinics and those who need it the most are not screened for hearing loss.
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Professor in Audiology in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Deaf Education, University of Tennessee
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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District School Administrator and PhD Student in Deaf Education, University of Tennessee
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Lecturer, Hearing Science, University of Manchester
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Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Paediatrician, Senior Research Fellow, Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Postdoctoral Researcher of Language and Literacy, University of Tennessee
