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How do hearing aids work?

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

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What Is an Ear Mold?

pediatric audiologist, Dr. Danielle Doyle specializes in helping kids with hearing loss. An ear mold is a piece of like lovely plastic that shaped exactly like the shape of my ear. But before you could get a new ear mold, you got your hearing tested. So they put in your ears these special medical earbuds that were squishy like marshmallows and played a bunch of sounds for you. Next comes the part where they say words to me and I repeat them.

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