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`Listen to your kids'

The world's leading authority on childhood hearing impairment and auditory-verbal therapy, Warren Estabrooks, was in Delhi recently to speak to parents of cochlear implantee children and to encourage them to "listen to their children".The international hearing rehabilitation expert also interacted with children from the Meenakshi Speech and Hearing Centre and Asha Speech and Hearing Clinic.

Warren, also the director of the Learning to Listen Foundation, Canada, said, "More than five million people in India suffer from a hearing impairment and there are more than a million with severe to profound hearing loss. Children who receive a cochlear implant young enough, and receive the appropriate auditory training, should be able to acquire age-appropriate language skills and participate fully in mainstream school and community."

Estabrooks also urged parents, health professionals and teachers to ensure that children get the best possible opportunity to learn to listen. "That means we need to be vigilant about understanding the baby's or infant's hearing loss and not leave it too late to provide them with the appropriate aids," he said. -- Bindu Shajan Perappadan

-- Bindu Shajan Perappadan

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