From silence to ‘Mama’: The 26-year-old helping babies and children with hearing loss learn to listen
CNA
At KKH, an auditory-verbal habilitationist helps children with hearing loss develop listening and speech, coaching parents to build language skills at home.
Most parents celebrate their baby’s first “Mama” or “Dada” but rarely consider how much goes into this speech milestone. For a child with hearing loss, those utterances may not be a given.
So when Tiffany Lim’s first assigned case, a four-year-old with hearing loss who had spent most of his childhood in a world of silence, called out to his mother and grandparents for the first time, it meant everything to her.
“Up until then, he was in his own bubble,” she recalled.
The 26-year-old is an auditory-verbal habilitationist (AVH) at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital’s (KKH) Audiology Service. She works in a niche field, helping children and babies with hearing loss develop listening and language skills after they are fitted with hearing devices.
The work is deeply family-centred, with parents coached to support listening and language development both during sessions and at home.
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