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    The document discusses hearing impairment in developing countries. It states that 50% of hearing impairment can be prevented, and that without intervention, hearing impaired children are often abandoned. Developing countries have 120 million people with disabling hearing loss, but millions of children do not receive rehabilitation support or hearing aids. Audiology services are almost non-existent in developing countries due to limited funding and resources, leaving many without access to care. Cultural views and other barriers like lack of trained professionals also contribute to the challenges of establishing hearing services.

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    The document discusses hearing impairment in developing countries. It states that 50% of hearing impairment can be prevented, and that without intervention, hearing impaired children are often abandoned. Developing countries have 120 million people with disabling hearing loss, but millions of children do not receive rehabilitation support or hearing aids. Audiology services are almost non-existent in developing countries due to limited funding and resources, leaving many without access to care. Cultural views and other barriers like lack of trained professionals also contribute to the challenges of establishing hearing services.

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    The document discusses hearing impairment in developing countries. It states that 50% of hearing impairment can be prevented, and that without intervention, hearing impaired children are often abandoned. Developing countries have 120 million people with disabling hearing loss, but millions of children do not receive rehabilitation support or hearing aids. Audiology services are almost non-existent in developing countries due to limited funding and resources, leaving many without access to care. Cultural views and other barriers like lack of trained professionals also contribute to the challenges of establishing hearing services.

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    The document discusses hearing impairment in developing countries. It states that 50% of hearing impairment can be prevented, and that without intervention, hearing impaired children are often abandoned. Developing countries have 120 million people with disabling hearing loss, but millions of children do not receive rehabilitation support or hearing aids. Audiology services are almost non-existent in developing countries due to limited funding and resources, leaving many without access to care. Cultural views and other barriers like lack of trained professionals also contribute to the challenges of establishing hearing services.

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    Hearing impairment

    Hearing impairment in developing countries

    The World Health Organisation estimates that a staggering 50% of hearing impairment
    can be prevented.

    Hearing impairment can have a disastrous impact on the development of effective


    speech, communication, learning and social integration. Appropriate intervention is
    essential for children to have a chance in life. Without auditory rehabilitation, hearing
    impaired and deaf children in developing countries are routinely abandoned.

    In developing countries, millions of hearing impaired children do not have hearing aids or
    rehabilitation support. In contrast, Australian children with hearing loss receive
    complete rehabilitation support including free hearing aids.

    In developing countries there is a huge need for audiology services. In 1995 the World
    Health Organisation estimated that there were at least 120 million people in the world
    with a disabling hearing impairment of which 78 million were in developing countries.

    This report also showed that in the South-East Asia, 25 million people were estimated to
    have a disabling hearing impairment, of which approximately 2.5 million were children
    aged under 18 years.

    Hearing services in developing countries

    The burden of deafness and hearing impairment is estimated to be almost twice as large
    in developing countries as available services are almost non-existent.

    In most developing countries, audiology has been established as a profession, however,


    clinical services often only serve small areas, and government funding for hearing
    services is limited. The lack of epidemiological research on the extent of hearing
    impairment makes it difficult to develop strategies and programs on a national level.

    Audiology services understandably become a lower priority for countries which are
    struggling to provide the basic requirements of health in order to avoid life threatening
    consequences. The result is that in most developing countries audiology services are
    inaccessible to a large portion of the population. This gap can only be filled by
    audiologists volunteering their services to these countries. <link>

    Barriers to establishing hearing services

    Cultural views of hearing impairment and disability will affect the importance the
    community and government place on treatment and rehabilitation programs. Attitudes
    toward deafness and hearing impairment are influenced by the socio-economic
    conditions, lack of understanding about the nature of the disability and beliefs about the
    origin of the disability.

    Other contributing factors include political barriers, lack of trained personnel, inadequate
    health education, insufficient research on communication disorders in developing
    countries, and a lack of local and culturally valid assessment procedures.

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