Imagine you’re just a few months into your journey as a parent when you begin to notice that something seems off. A dog barks, but your child isn’t startled. You softly call her name, but she doesn’t turn her head. Your friends’ infants are starting to make cooing sounds or say “mama” and “dada” — but your child isn’t.
In South Carolina, 97 percent of newborn infants are screened for hearing ability — and 3.1 percent do not pass. At the Arnold School of Public Health, there’s a clinic that can help.
Follow the story of a young boy named Finn as he moves from a world of limited hearing to one where he can understand and engage with the sounds around him — all thanks to team members at the Montgomery Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, which offers top-tier evaluation and treatment to individuals with communication disorders.
