HEALTH MATTERS
How to Prioritize Your
Child's Hearing in 2024
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children who have some degree of hearing loss to be between one and five children per 1,000. If your child is one of them, it is likely affecting their performance in the classroom academically and socially. After all, good hearing is about much more than just paying attention.
The importance of hearing
in the classroom
Your child's hearing is a vital part of learning and their overall success in school. Here are some ways hearing affects their learning. Language acquisition. Good hearing is vital for children to develop proper speech and language skills. Vocabulary building, grammar skills and the ability to
(BPT) - How is your child's hearing? If you're not quite sure, you're not alone. While parents routinely take their children to the pediatrician for annual checkups and vaccines, those appointments don't typically include hearing tests. And although elementary schools do hearing screenings, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) tells us the requirements vary from state to state, as does the frequency of the tests. Some are conducted every year, some every two or three years.
All of that ambiguity, along with other factors, leads the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conclude we simply don't know how many children are living with hearing loss in the U.S. The CDC estimates the number of