Sound Seekers At Work
It is estimated that more than 120 million people across the world – half of whom are children – suffer from preventable hearing impairment. 255 million people suffer moderate or worse hearing impairment, In developing countries, these people often have no access to basic hearing assessment, treatment, medicines or even transport to what limited facilities there are – let alone hearing aids. The first contact they might have with any kind of audiological specialist is sometimes provided by a Sound Seekers project.
Sound Seekers works in the following ways:
- Establishing and improving audiology services in developing countries of the Commonwealth to screen for, and treat, hearing loss and ear disease
- Providing HARK! (Hearing Assessment and Research Centre) mobile earcare clinics which deliver outreach audiology and ear disease treatment services as part of community healthcare programmes
- Supplying support to schools and associations for the deaf
- Training rural clinic technicians in audiology and audiology equipment maintenance, including the maintenance of hearing aids
- Informing rural communities about 'good ear health'
Sound Seekers has supported work all over the Commonwealth from Bangladesh to Barbados, Ghana, Jamaica, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and more. They have recently established a major earcare project in Sierra Leone, and have recently extended their HARK mobile clinic programme to India and The Gambia.
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