by Paige Stringer | Aug 26, 2018 | audiology, developing countries, Missoula, Mongolia, nonprofit
Eleven-year-old Dutch is a fun-loving, active boy who loves running, doing crazy trampoline tricks, skiing, and hanging out with friends and his three siblings. He also happens to wear hearing aids. His family was grateful for the early support they received to help...
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 | 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 21, 2016 | audiology, early intervention, global foundation, humanitarian, nonprofit, Vietnam
Here is an example of how our Vietnam program is reaping benefits for young children with hearing loss and their families. It started with our pediatric audiology training program this week in Da Nang when our Vietnamese audiology technicians had the opportunity to...
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...
by Paige Stringer | Dec 4, 2015 | audiology, deaf education, developing countries, early intervention, global foundation, humanitarian, nonprofit
We just wrapped up our 3-week November 2015 Mobile Mission training program for Vietnamese audiology and auditory-verbal professionals in Da Nang and Dong Nai. Our third training initiative this year was another successful event. Both workshops were held at school...
