“A child who struggles to hear may also struggle to learn to speak, underachieve at school and end up socially isolated”
There are 360 million people in the world with disabling hearing loss. This is around 5% of the world’s population – 32 million of these people are children. Disabling hearing loss is defined as:
1. Adults (15 years and older): hearing loss greater than 40 decibels (dB) in the better hearing ear
2. Children (0 – 14 years of age): hearing loss greater than 30 dB in the better hearing ear.
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