by Paige Stringer | Apr 28, 2018 | audiology, auditory-verbal practice, AVT, developing countries, early intervention, ENT, global foundation, hearing screening, listening and spoken language, Mongolia, speech pathology, teacher training
The Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss Mongolia program continues to make great strides. The objective of the program is to help the Mongolian medical community establish newborn hearing screening capabilities in their country and to expand professional...
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 | 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...
by Paige Stringer | Mar 31, 2016 | audiology, developing countries, early intervention, hearing loss, humanitarian, nonprofit, Vietnam
The goal of our Hospital Program is to support the professional development of the Vietnamese medical community who provide pediatric audiology and auditory-verbal therapy services to Vietnamese children 0-6 years of age in clinical settings. Our March Hospital...