Hearing is critical to a child’s speech and language development, communication, and learning, yet children with hearing problems continue to be an underidentified and underserved population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This May, as part of Better Hearing and Speech Month, Midwest ENT Centre is urging parents to take their child for a hearing screening if they suspect a problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Warning to Parents<\/strong>: The earlier a hearing loss occurs in a child’s life, the more serious the potential effects on the child’s development. However, the earlier the problem is identified and intervention begins, the less serious the ultimate impact will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are four major ways in which hearing loss affects a child:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Research indicates that children identified with a hearing loss who begin services early may be able to develop language (spoken and\/or signed) on a par with their hearing peers. If a hearing loss is detected in your child, early family-centered intervention is recommended to promote language (speech and\/or signed, depending on family choices) and cognitive development. An audiologist, as part of an interdisciplinary team of professionals, will evaluate your child and suggest the most appropriate audiologic intervention program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information about hearing disorders and prevention, visit www.asha.org<\/a> or visit our website at www.mid-westent.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Midwest ENT Centre’s Audiology Department is home to highly educated, trained and certified clinical audiologists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n About the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association<\/strong> Parents: Do You Understand The Effects Of Hearing Loss On Your Child’s Development? National Awareness Month Educates Parents About Hearing Disorders Affecting School Performance Hearing is critical to a child’s speech and language development, communication, and learning, yet children with hearing problems continue to be an underidentified and underserved population. This May, as part of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hearing-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entmidwest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
What Can Parents Do? <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
ASHA is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 145,000 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists. Audiologists specialize in preventing and assessing hearing and balance disorders as well as providing audiologic treatment including hearing aids. Speech-language pathologists identify, assess, and treat speech and language problems including swallowing disorders. www.asha.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"