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We interviewed parents of cochlear implant users about their children’s kindergarten and school experiences. This is what they had to say.

If your child has hearing loss, confidence, resilience, and self-advocacy are especially important to their development. In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at these attributes and show you how to build them in your child.

Another school year is here, with new lessons, new classmates, and new teachers. And for many kids, it will also have been a long time since they’ve been in the exciting, busy, and noisy classroom setting. The classroom can be a challenging listening environment for children with hearing loss, especially when… There is increased distance

For children with hearing loss, this year has created new challenges in the classroom. First there was the switch to online learning, and now as some schools return to in-person teaching, a new challenge has emerged: Face masks and hearing loss. Masks prevent lip reading, restrict visual cues and even dampen speech transmitted from the

For seven years, 13-year-old Valentin from Austria could only hear in one ear. While his hearing loss remained undetected for a long time, the effects of single-sided deafness on his development were clearly visible. In her guest article, Valentin’s mother Irene explains how he was finally diagnosed with “profound hearing loss in

We share 9 tips to help your child when they begin school, including making sure they can hear their best, and support for your child’s teacher.