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Causes and Effects of Childhood Hearing Loss

February 22nd, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

A young child’s health problems affect families and entire communities. When the health problems fall into the categories of chronic and disabling, those affected face serious and daunting challenges.

Often, the causes of childhood hearing loss are not as potentially preventable as the factors that can lead to hearing loss in teens and adults. Any person who suffers from hearing impairment can be the victim of an inherited disorder.

When these occur in young children, the cause can be a malformed inner ear or a neurological disorder affecting the ear’s ability to transmit sound from the outer to the inner ear. When childhood hearing loss is the result of a family condition, the affected child has the advantage of having family members who are knowledgeable about the problem and its treatment. Read the rest of this entry »