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When fifth-grader Amelia learns to cope with her noise sensitivity, she steps outside of her comfort zone and makes new friends. Includes information about noise sensitivity.

Examines the major risk factors for hearing impairment, stresses the importance of early diagnosis of hearing impairment in infants, and demonstrates two kinds of infant hearing tests. The program also focuses on new technologies including cochlear implants in children and adults and a new generation of hearing aids equipped with computer chips to filter out low-frequency background noise and digital processing, which converts sound to computer language....

Yadin Park is a talented alt-country musician whose career has floundered, doomed first by his homely looks and lack of stage presence and then by a progressive hearing disorder. His girlfriend, Jeanette Matsuda, might have been a professional photographer but for a devastating heartbreak in her teens. Now Yadin works for Jeanette's father's carpet-laying company in California while Jeanette cleans rooms at a local resort. When Yadin's former lover...

Childhood hearing loss is more common than most people assume, and yet this invisible condition can rob a child of the ability to develop close emotional relationships with family and friends. This book demystifies this condition and offers emotionally-supportive approaches to caring for the child and the whole family. It is written from the perspective of a pediatric audiologist who has diagnosed hearing loss in hundreds of newborns and young children,...

You can rate your answers with the experts about your ears and hearing. Dr. Frank Field asks the questions and the answers are given with explanations by experts in the field. This program not only serves as an information awareness tool, it also gives you the opportunity to test your knowledge by answering multiple choice and true/false questions during the program. Some sample questions are: Can some hearing losses be avoided? Should one ever...

Discusses sensorineural hearing loss - damage to the hair cells in the cochlea in the inner ear and its effect on our hearing.

Dr. Daniel Ling and several associates discuss acoustics, audition and speech reception, essentials underlying the development of spoken language by children who are deaf and/or hard of hearing. Areas of focus include how to administer and interpret the Six-Sound Test, auditory-verbal therpay and modern technology, earmold acoustics, and gain and output in hearing aids.