Sounds Good Blog
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Cochlear ImplantsMy discovers her love of music
14. October 2019Five-year-old My has a new passion. She loves to sing. Together with her sister, who is twelve years older, the young Vietnamese girl rehearses the first bars of an Elvis Presley song. For their mother, Hanh, hearing the two duetting is like a miracle. My was born with severe hearing loss. She could not hear any sounds for the first years of her life until she was identified with her hearing loss.
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VolunteeringHaiti: Gaining trust
18. July 2019Nadja Laible: I am a hearing acoustics expert and have been working in the Audiology department at Phonak Germany since 2015. Ever since I started this position, I have wanted to go on assignment as a volunteer for Hear the World. The opportunity finally arose in May 2018, when I had the chance to support the project #HearHaiti. I was thrilled!
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VolunteeringGuatemala: our youngest volunteer
26. March 2019Hear the World invited Isaiah to join a team of three Sonova volunteers who visited the project in February 2019. The goal of the visit was to fit the donated hearing aids and conduct hearing screenings at different schools in Guatemala City and Antigua. Isaiah was able to accompany the team during the first two days.
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VolunteeringPeru: Hearing test factory
18. March 2019Jennifer Appleton-Huber: 60 wax occlusions, 21 infections, two Piñata foam pieces and a live insect - some otoscopy findings during your typical week of hearing screening in Lima. In September 2018, I was fortunate to be allowed to be part of a small team of Sonova volunteers, who travelled to Lima Peru. Our mission was to screen at least 4000 children for hearing loss within five days.
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TipsCheck your hearing
03. March 2019On March 3, for World Hearing Day 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) draws attention to the importance of early identification and intervention for hearing loss with the theme “Check your hearing!”. Many people live with unidentified hearing loss, often failing to realize that they are missing out on certain sounds and words. Checking one’s hearing would be the first step towards addressing the issue.
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Cochlear ImplantsA father’s story
19. February 2019Full of hope, Ha and Hang are waiting for a special moment: on February 27th, 2019, their son Hung, who is almost three years old, will once again hear his parents’ voices clearly. That is the moment when the boy’s cochlear implant, which he received through the #HearVietnam program on January 21st in Hanoi, will be activated.
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VolunteeringMalawi: Speech-language services
15. October 2018Lisa Bacic from Phonak volunteered at our project in Malawi. As a speech-language pathologist she knows that adapting communication resources is very important for a successful therapy. Because not every child in the world knows who wears a red suit and says “Ho, Ho, Ho”.
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Cochlear ImplantsAuditory-verbal therapy
27. September 2018In 2017, Hear the World donated cochlear implants (CI) for the first time, to three children in need in Panama. This spring, four more children with a profound hearing loss received the gift of hearing thanks to CI. But what happens before and after the activation?
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AmbassadorsGregor Meyle: Deeply impressed
03. September 2018German singer-songwriter Gregor Meyle has been a Hear the World ambassador since July 2018. During his visit to a project in South Africa in July, he met children with hearing loss at the Carel du Toit Centre and sang with them as part of a musical speech therapy session. This likeable full-blooded musician talks about his experiences and impressions that he had during his stay in South Africa.
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