Early Hearing Detection Critical to Prevent Childhood Disability, Experts Warn

Unrecognized hearing impairment in children causes delayed learning, speech development delays, and social integration challenges, with permanent disability preventable through early intervention.

Each year, a thousand children in Andhra Pradesh cross silently into a world of diminished sound — not because medicine cannot help them, but because the moment for help passes unrecognized. ENT specialists mark World Hearing Day by reminding families that the brain's window for learning language through sound is narrow, closing around a child's third year, and that cochlear implants offered freely by the government can restore that future if reached in time. The old grandmother who clapped near a newborn's ear understood something essential: attention paid early is the most powerful intervent

Early Hearing Detection Critical to Prevent Childhood Disability, Experts Warn

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