About Hearing Loss

According to the National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIDCD), one in every 350 infants is born with a significant hearing loss.

More than 90% of deaf babies are born to "hearing" parents, so a diagnosis of hearing loss can be devastating.

Often, a deaf baby appears to be typically developing. Without access to a screening at birth, a diagnosis of deafness/hearing loss is generally made late, at 2 or 3 years of age, when a child has been slow to speak.

Late diagnosis/hearing aid use (after six months) often presents insurmountable difficulties as deaf children grow to adulthood, because the critical window for speech/language development has been missed. Without early intervention, deaf children often never catch up to their hearing peers. More than 90% of deaf adults read at a fourth grade level, severely limiting their educational, emotional, and employment potential.

This is why CEID was founded.