About Infant Hearing Loss
Infant hearing loss is surprisingly common
About Infant Hearing Loss
The sense of hearing
The sense of hearing is stimulated in the womb, much the way it is after a baby is born. Babies are bathed in the sound of the rhythms and melodies of their mother’s language months before birth. And infants’ brains are brilliantly designed to master the complexities of language by sheer immersion in sound within just a few years. This is a critical time period for brain development.
Limitless possibilities for children with hearing loss
Testing and Early Intervention
Brain Development
What’s Possible?
Clarke is committed to helping children who are deaf or hard of hearing reach their full potential.
Our Stories
Leah
Leah was diagnosed with bilateral severe sensorineural hearing loss and was just under 10 months old when her family began...
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Muhammad
Muhammad has a bilateral hearing loss and began working with Clarke as a preschooler. In addition to his classroom experience,...
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Leighton
Like most caregivers who discover their child was born with a hearing loss, Nina and Spencer worried at first how...
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A Research Opportunity for Families with Infants Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Help researchers explore whether early language experience impacts how infants who are deaf or hard of hearing develop their ability to recognize differences between quantities. In this study babies are shown a series of images on the left and right sides of the screen.
Seasonal Hearing Health Tips
Audiologists at the Clarke Hearing Center compiled tips and best practices to support hearing health throughout the fall and winter seasons when the weather can be cooler, and more people gather indoors.
Clarke Audiologist Shares Why Hearing Health Matters
Hear Christine Kelley, audiologist at the Clarke Hearing Center, explain why hearing health matters on WACE AM 730 radio. Christine shares signs for getting your hearing checked and why it’s important to have an audiologist assess your hearing, as well as the inspiration for her career path.
