by Paige Stringer | Oct 24, 2017 | audiology, global foundation, Hear the World
It was a special honor for the Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss to receive the 2017/18 Richard Seewald Award from Hear the World Foundation. Hear the World Foundation explains “The annual prize honors outstanding projects benefiting people in...
by Paige Stringer | Oct 24, 2017 | audiology, developing countries, early intervention, global foundation, hearing loss, hearing screening, Mongolia, nonprofit
There are about 309,000 children in Mongolia (11% of the total population) between 0-5 years of age, the critical years of language development. Since there is currently no universal hearing screening for infants and young children in the country, the potential is...
by Paige Stringer | May 31, 2017 | audiology, early intervention, ENT, hearing loss, hearing screening, World Health Organization
Over the past few years, the Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss has contributed to dedicated efforts within the World Health Organization to raise awareness for the issue of hearing health care, and specifically, pediatric hearing loss. The work centered...
by Paige Stringer | Sep 9, 2016 | audiology, developing countries, early intervention, hearing loss, hearing screening, humanitarian, Mongolia
The Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss has partnered with the Mongolia medical community to support a Ministry of Health initiative to identify babies and young children with hearing loss in Mongolia and provide appropriate treatment. Early...
by Paige Stringer | Aug 19, 2016 | audiology, deaf education, developing countries, early intervention, hearing loss, nonprofit, speech pathology, teacher training, Vietnam
The Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss works in Vietnam throughout the year primarily providing training, but also supplying audiology equipment, therapy resources, and consultation support to help the Vietnamese improve pediatric audiology and...
by Paige Stringer | Jul 30, 2016 | audiology, developing countries, early intervention, teacher training, Vietnam
In July 2016, we led three weeks of training in Vietnam with workshops covering pediatric audiology, auditory-verbal therapy, and auditory-verbal classroom for Vietnamese teachers, therapists, and audiology technicians supporting young children with hearing...
