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The Women’s Social Cultural Association held a medical symposium on hearing and speech diseases at the association’s headquarters in the Khalidiya area, during which it hosted a professor of hearing and balance diseases at Zagazig University in Cairo and a consultant doctor of hearing and cochlear implants at the ENT Medical Center in Riyadh, Dr. Ahmed Khater, and a number of the association’s members.

Professor Ahmed Khater confirmed the prevalence of hearing impairment diseases in Kuwait and around the world by 10%, pointing to the multiplicity of causes of infection between microbes, loud voices and genetic genes that cause about 3% of the total infection, which varies according to the type of the genetic gene «dominant or recessive» .

He pointed out the signs of hearing impairment, the golden time for language acquisition, how to benefit from it, prevention of hearing diseases of all kinds, as well as methods of diagnosis and treatment, stressing the importance of early detection of hearing impairment to acquire language and the golden period for a child, which starts from the age of one to four years.

He explained that the first signs of hearing impairment are that the child does not respond to surrounding sounds and then does not respond to speech and speech, and in this case preliminary audiological examinations are carried out by means of sound and computer emission, followed by advanced examinations to ensure that the child has impaired sensory hearing, and upon confirmation of the injury In cases of severe hearing impairment, a stethoscope or cochlear implant is placed for the child.

Khater pointed out that there are 4 types of cochlear, noting the necessity of installing the cochlea at an early age, because early intervention contributes to achieving better treatment results, with the development of hearing and language acquisition.

For her part, the director of Bustan Nursery for Hearing and Logic Impairment of the Women’s Cultural and Social Association, Dalila Youssef, said that the nursery was established in 1997 and the idea was launched by the members of the Women’s Cultural Social Society, headed by Dr. Haifa Al-Saqr and the President of the Society, Lulwa Al-Mulla, and that it succeeded during her career over the course of 22 years In the graduation of a large number of engineers, teachers and doctors