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Child safety dependent on carers’ ability to hear |
| Published: September 3, 2007, 5:07 pm |
| Tags: health, children, parenting, children, deafness, grandparents, hearing, safety |
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The Better Hearing Institute has implored parents to ensure that more elderly relatives who look after their children can hear well to ensure that their children remain safe. “If your child’s babysitter is one of the 24 million people who need hearing aids and don’t have them, there could be serious problems,” warned Dr Sergei Kochkin, Executive Director of the BHI. “The risks of not hearing a smoke or carbon monoxide detector could be fatal, as they have been for some. Not hearing weather warnings could expose them, and your children, to a flood, tornado, or hurricane. Spending too much time speech reading while driving can cause a crash, as can failing to hear a siren.” “Older children have been known to take advantage of an adult’s hearing loss and get ‘permission’ to do something the adult wouldn’t agree to if they understood what the child said. The emotional repercussions of untreated hearing loss, depression and [ Full article ] |
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