Hearing Loss Prevention for Educators

As educators, you play an important part in the communication development of your students. Did you know, children spend at least 45% of the school day engaged in listening activities and approximately 80% of lower elementary students suffer from a temporary hearing loss sometime during the school year? [1]

Make hearing health a priority. Use these tools to begin a hearing loss prevention campaign in your classroom or at your school.

To schedule a hearing loss prevention presentation
at your school, contact Katharine Schaafs at kschaafs@centerhearingandspeech.org.

Activities and Guides

Videos

Education Campaigns

Interactive quiz about hearing
and sounds (grades 3-6)
Interactive sound ruler: How
Loud is Too Loud?
Ask the Scientist
"I Love What I Hear!" (grades 3-6)
"How Your Brain Understands
What Your Ear Hears" (grades 7-8)
Turn it to the Left printable worksheets http://www.turnittotheleft.com/educationresources.htm
Dangerous Decibels’ Resource Guide http://64.78.30.80/wp-content/
uploads/2010/04/Educator-
Resource-Guide-2010.pdf

"What Is Sound?"

"How Loud is Too Loud?"

"Travel Inside the Ear"

"I Love What I Hear!"

NIDCD's Noisy Planet Campaign—Protecting Kids' Hearing
WISE EARS!^® —National campaign
to raise awareness about
noise-induced hearing loss.
Turn it to the Left http://www.turnittotheleft.com/
Dangerous Decibels http://www.dangerousdecibels.org/

[1] Interesting Facts about Hearing Loss http://www.usd116.org/index.php/parents/special-services/hearing-loss-facts/