This year DeafBlind Awareness Week is June 25 to July 1, 2024. Marked annually during the last week of June in honor of Helen Keller’s birthday on June 27th, DeafBlind Awareness Week is an important time to raise awareness and support the DeafBlind community to promote inclusivity and understanding for individuals with varying sensory needs.
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The Importance of School-Aged Hearing Screenings
A school classroom is a noisy place, especially for students who are deaf and hard of hearing. It can be more difficult for children with hearing loss to hear the teacher’s instructions in the presence of noise. Research shows that even mild hearing loss makes it hard for children to listen and learn in a
Read MoreLet’s Celebrate World Hearing Day 2022!
Today is World Hearing Day, and this year’s theme is “to hear for life, listen with care.” Our expert team of Pediatric Audiologists, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Melinda Webb School teachers believe in promoting good hearing health 365 days a year. Over the course of our lifetime, we expose our ears to sounds and noises that
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