Protect Your Hearing
Our Youth is at Risk!
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HearO Saves the Day will:
Engage
Engage children by taking them on an exciting adventure that uses Superpowers to protect a little girl in distress.
Educate
Educate children about the working of the ear, the danger of loud sound, and the importance of practicing hearing safety.
Empower
Empower children with four ways they can protect their hearing for a lifetime
Adele Sandberg
a lifelong educator, advocate, and grandmother of ten. Inspired by her concern for children exposed to dangerously loud sound, she founded Ear Peace Save Your Hearing Foundation, an educational nonprofit whose mission is to teach children how to protect their hearing.
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Meet the Authors
Sherilyn M. Adler, Ph.D.
a developmental psychologist, educator, and consultant. Her son was born with profound hearing loss and uses cochlear implant technology to hear. She is passionate about ensuring that children don’t unknowingly put their hearing at risk.
Why We Wrote this Book
Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) is at epidemic levels among our youth, with three times as many 2nd graders being diagnosed with hearing loss compared to ten years previously. We wrote this captivating adventure story to help parents and educators teach young children about their precious sense of hearing and provide them with the simple tools they need to enjoy music and healthy hearing for a lifetime.
What Experts Say...
"Having worked with patients with hearing loss for many decades, it is essential to reach young people now so that they can safeguard their precious sense of hearing. HearO Saves the Day! is an excellent resource for parents, children, librarians, and early education professionals. I highly recommend it, without reservation.”
Thomas J. Balkany, MD, FACS, FAAP
Hotchkiss Professor and Chairman Emeritus, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
President, Institute for Cochlear Implant Training
“We NEED tools like this that can explain the importance of protecting our children from the dangers of noise exposure and we need it to be understandable at a very young age! As an audiologist and cochlear implant specialist who has spent most of my professional life treating people who have lost their hearing, I am thrilled to see such a wonderful resource aimed at preventing the preventable.”
Jerry Schloffman, MA
Audiologist with 25 years experience working with children who have hearing loss and cochlear implants
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HearO Saves the Day! is a book that should be read in every classroom. Whether it’s a lesson about health, the body, or our five senses, HearO’s adventure will introduce kids (and the grown-ups who care about them) to how their ears work and how to safeguard their sense of hearing. It’s a book that belongs on every classroom shelf!
Chi-Chi Berman
Kindergarten Teacher
“As a pediatric audiologist, teaching children about the importance of protecting one's hearing is a big part of what I do. Young children often arrive to my office with a tablet. Even elementary school-aged kids are using earbuds and headphones daily. ‘HearO Saves the Day’ combines learning about the auditory system with a solid message about ways to protect our hearing. It's a fun yet impactful read that young children will enjoy.”
Shelly Ash, MS
Pediatric Audiologist
ABOUT
Ear Peace Foundation
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Ear Peace Save Your Hearing Foundation is an educational non-profit organization established in 2010 to address the increasing risk of permanent but preventable hearing damage due to loud sound.
Our mission is to educate young people about (1) the dangers of loud sound and (2) the simple behaviors necessary to protect hearing.
For more than a decade, the Foundation has worked to get hearing safety information into academic curriculums for school-age children (available online and free). HearO Saves the Day! was written to provide families and educators of preK-3rd grade children with actionable information, empowering them to safeguard their children’s hearing beginning in infancy and early childhood.
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