For Parents

La pérdida de audición inducida por el ruido se puede prevenir. Aprenda sobre las causas y cómo prevenir la pérdida de audición, así usted y su preadolescente podrán mantener una audición saludable para toda la vida.

• Momentos oportunos para la enseñanza de la audición saludable
• El ruido: cómo disminuirlo en el hogar
• Enseñe a los niños sobre los protectores de oídos
• Recomendaciones para proteger la capacidad auditiva de sus hijos
• Proteja la audición de sus hijos: lo que usted puede hacer
• ¿Por qué hay que enseñar a los niños sobre la pérdida de audición inducida por el ruido?
• ¿Cuándo el ruido es demasiado ruido? ¿Cuándo empieza el ruido a causar daño?
• ¿Qué es la pérdida de audición ocasionada por el ruido?
• Escala interactiva de ruidos: ¿Cuándo el ruido es demasiado ruido?
• ¿Cuándo el ruido es demasiado ruido? (marcador de libro)

"I’m constantly frustrated by how loud the music is when I pick our kids up from after-school care at their elementary school.  As someone with noise-induced hearing loss myself, I’m really frustrated by the lack of awareness."
—Concerned parent

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E-mail us at : NPInfo@nidcd.nih.gov

Do your kids live or spend time on a farm? Learn how to protect their hearing (and your own) in a farm environment.

• Tips for parents: Protecting kids' hearing (and your own) on a farm.
• Video: Take a 3-minute video visit to Mountain View Farm to learn how to protect your hearing if you live or work on a farm.
• Bookmark/noise guide: Learn how loud specific farm sounds can be. View, order, or print our bookmark. (467 KB PDF; get Adobe Reade)
• Poster: View our full-color educational poster (11 x 17") (1.75 MB PDF; get Adobe Reader) and order one for your farm, school, or doctor's office.

Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is preventable. Learn about causes and prevention of NIHL so that your tween—and you—can have healthy hearing for life.

• Interactive sound ruler: Use this cool tool to help your tween learn about noise levels.
• How loud is too loud bookmark? Learn how loud specific sounds can be. View, order, or print our bookmark. (1.31 MB PDF; get Adobe Reader)
• Teachable moments about healthy hearing: Learn how lessons in healthy hearing can happen anytime.
• Noise: keeping it down at home: Find out how to help keep noise at a comfortable level in your home.
• Teaching kids about hearing protectors: Learn why tweens should use hearing protectors as readily as they use bicycle helmets.
• Sound advice about hearing protectors for young ears: Learn about the different types of earplugs and earmuffs that are available to reduce noise.
• What parents can do: Educate others about noise-induced hearing loss.
• Podcast: NIDCD Director Dr. James F. Battey, Jr., talks with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association about how to protect kids' hearing. (See Episode 14.)
• Sample newsletter article: You can help spread the message on noise-induced hearing loss prevention by printing this non-copyrighted article in your school or organization newsletter.