Kid Hearing Loss – Web Site To Support Parents And Teachers

Discovering that a child has a hearing loss can be difficult for parents to accept and deal with. Helplessness, concern, and an urge to understand more about the impairment are natural reactions.

The international hearing aid manufacturer Oticon has designed a comprehensive web site to support parents as well as teachers, relatives and friends, with valuable information on how to understand, accept, and help a child with hearing loss. The site, which received the prestigious “International Web Page Award” in June 2000, has just been updated with new features and additional background information.

In addition to a broad range of information on hearing loss and hearing related issues, the OtiKids web site provides useful, practical techniques to facilitate communication in everyday situations. An extensive glossary offers easy-tounderstand explanations of commonly used audiological terms and a series of printable information booklets for parents, teachers, and families are available for additional off-line reading.

Oticon has a long tradition of serving children with hearing difficulties. The web site is part of Oticon’s extensive OtiKids program that has been established in a continuous effort to help people with a hearing loss to live the life they want with the hearing they have. This effort goes well beyond the benefits of hearing instruments. It includes creative tools for teachers to further the audiological education of children in an engaging way, and it offers a range of useful business tools for pediatric audiologists. On a regular basis, clinical studies are carried out in co-operation with audiological facilities around the world to verify the benefits of Oticon’s hearing solutions for hearing impaired children. All services developed for the OtiKids program are dedicated to promote understanding, sensitivity, and quality of life through better hearing.

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