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What’s going on in the ear when your child hears a loud noise?
In the same way your voice is louder in a smaller room, sounds are amplified in a child’s smaller ear, says a Children’s Hospital audiologist.
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Listen 4:30How to keep teen drivers’ eyes on the road, and their fingers off the keyboard
Getting the message through is important: A high proportion of teen car crashes involve distracted driving. So a “multi-pronged” strategy is underway.
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Listen 4:28Measles in 2019: We’ve forgotten how bad it can be, pediatricians say
Vaccines worry a lot of parents. Pediatricians understand that, but they worry we’ve forgotten just how sick kids can get without the shots.
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Listen 4:09A mother’s wish for her son: Mental health treatment
His immigration status — undocumented — stands in the way of obtaining medication and therapy a 15-year-old boy needs for his depression, ADHD, and more.
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Games and gadgets: Turning to tech to fight ‘lazy eye’
The goal is simple: saving sight in the amblyopia-affected eye. To keep children from abandoning treatment, researchers are experimenting.
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Look out for ‘lazy eye,’ a vision problem that worsens as children get older
Amblyopia affects three out of every 100 kids. Age 2 is the ideal time to detect and treat it, vision experts say, but that doesn’t happen often.
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How do you defend against measles? Stand ready to fight the disease like the enemy it is
Standing ready to fight measles like an enemy is the best defense, health care experts say. Here’s how one hospital and school district have prepared.
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Listen 5:06Finding emotional support when your sibling has an addiction
The experience of a brother or sister of someone with a drug addiction is distinct from a parent’s. Siblings may feel guilty they didn’t see signs of a substance problem.
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Listen 4:55Siblings also struggle when addiction strikes a family
The basic issue is trust, one expert says: A trust that’s been broken by a brother or sister, and sometimes in deeply painful ways.
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Listen 4:49For non-swimmers, a chance to jump in the water and learn
A 2017 study found 66% of African-American kids couldn’t swim well enough to be safe in the deep end of a pool. We Can Swim dives in to change that.
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Listen 4:41These pediatricians ‘prescribe’ kids books, to boost your baby’s brain
Reach Out and Read, with 81 sites in the Philadelphia area alone, helps families with young children that typically don’t own books and can’t afford them.
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Your baby’s brain: If you want to build a better mind, tell stories
Reading, even talking, to a little one furiously directs neuron fibers to places in the brain where the magic of language, memory and attention develop.
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Young and fit: How to build healthy bodies? Do it as a family
Promoting children’s wellness is more complex than exercise and good food, experts say: “It's not about the scale moving, it's about your mindset changing.”
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Listen 3:15Young and fit: Creating safe spaces for girls to move, exercise
There’s still a gender gap when it comes to kids and sports. Here’s what one group is doing to change that.
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