If a child losses some of their hearing and gains even a mild hearing loss. This can affect their overall school experience, career, and relationships.

What can you as a dad do to alter this situation for your baby girl or baby boy?

Learn about childhood diseases can cause hearing loss and who are some hero's to have your child look up to that are fully functioning successful adults that grew up with hearing loss, too.

Noise is the number one culprit - do you daddy dear know what the decibels are of their favorite toy or how your damaging their ears with your lawnmower/leaf blower/ or motorcycle toys?

Hearing loss does not discriminate. It affects every age, race, gender, and social economic class and is the third worst chronic health condition in America.

Todays, episode talks about how 5 Black or if you prefer African-American celebrities have overcome the challenges of being black and also having the disability of hearing loss. How they have thrived to make it a better world.

Andrew Foster was the first black to graduate from Gallaudet University. A Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing University in D.C.. He went on to start 30 Deaf Schools in Africa.

Here about Whoopi Goldberg's experience, how Will.i.am suffers with tinnitus by rocks on with this visionary goals, Derrick Coleman, legally deaf and what that means for NFL Super Bowl Seattle Seahawks champion, by setting up the Derrick L. Coleman Jr., No Excuse Foundation to give back to hearing-impaired kids, teens, and adults in need. Tamika Catchings started early with "I outworked them, plain and simple" mental advantage early in life. While Halle Berry keeps producing even though she has an 80% hearing loss due to domestic violence at an early age.

Today's guest is Amy Ostrowski of Strategic Employment Solutions a corporate training company that focuses on the advantages of hiring in the corporate and small business workplace. She shares her personal story growing up with a sister who is very successful who has Down's syndrome. How she and her parents made the difference for her sister by treating her as an equal bodied person and the can-do mindset. Amy went on to become a special-educations teacher in public school. Because of insider view, she witnessed the struggle between employers and employees who had disabilities, therefore, created her training company to increase understanding, compliance, and value for corporations to hire these productive, determined, loyal employees. Learn by listening to what tax-incentive are available by hiring a hearing-impaired veteran.

Today's episode of Sound Advice: A Hearing Friendly Business Podcast addresses how LOUD NOISE is the number one cause of hearing loss. Addressing the damage protesting in George Floyds protest can cause lifelong damage to the ear organs, be it the protester or the police. Hearing loss is like COVID19 it does not discriminate. Hearing loss does not discriminate. It affects every age, race, gender, and socio-economic level.

Discover what the World Health Organization Listen Safe Program suggests to prevent hearing loss for those 12 to 35 where 1 billion are to get hearing loss. You have the ability usually to prevent hearing loss, do your part in #wetogether by avoiding ear damaging places, and learn about what you can do to prevent hearing loss and gauge where you measure up for the "gatekeeper of mental and physical" health.

I always marvel at how we say "happy memorial day", when it is a time we are honoring those who fought for our liberty. Today, you will hear about the journey of a woman who became a Rosie Riveter and applied the 'YOU CAN DO IT" attitude throughout her entire life. Learn the difference between hearing and listening. Why it's important to get your newborn hearing aids as soon as possible. What the different classifications of an audiologist are. How being a family business makes a difference. How I met Marion Downs. Did you know she is the author of "Shut Up and Live"? A 93- year old's guide to how to live to a ripe old age. Women you might want to check out one of her chapters that talks about self-masturbation. You have but one life to live. What do you want to be known for?

Helping Boomers & Beyond with hearing loss. "Listening skills are vital to your success in business -- and in life" stated Dave Kerpen, CEO of INC Magazine. Today's Episode 15 on Sound Advice: A Hearing Friendly Business Podcast explains how the "warrior" in you or your parent can come to grips with wearing prosthetic devices like hearing aid or cochlear implants to be the new normal in the 21st century.

In this episode you the listener will be given tips for how to communicate why hearing aids are necessary like to keep your loved ones active and thriving in life for better health, better communication, and better well-being. Ear health is the gateway to physical and mental health. Listen to this podcast on iTunes, iHeart, Pandora, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, and any of your other Podcast Channels.

In the 20th century we the medical profession focused on heart health - the American Red Cross was formed, the protocols were set up for cardiopulmonary resuscitation has evolved and we even set-up what's called F.A.S.T. for those having stokes for everybody to be able to recognize the signs, therefore, greater likelihood of better recovery without physical stroke-like symptoms.

Sudden hearing loss can cause permanent hearing loss. However, learning the HUM System will help you determine if it's just a stuffy ear or perhaps SHL. If you get to a doctor soon enough you have the ability to prevent sudden hearing loss.

Today you will hear about the value of communicator mask made by companies like SafeNClear.com, Harris Communication that also has captioned phones as well, and of course 3M's Communicator Mask.

Those are some of the sources now here is some Sound Advice: Tune Into Listening to discover the value of having communicator masks available in the hospitals, retirement centers, nursing centers, grocery locations for now with COVID, and in the future as this missed market niche continues to grow.

Hear about valuable non-verbal hearing friendly communication techniques that can help for professional development, promotions, and even reducing isolation. These techniques can be used for parents to a baby as well as C-level to employees to gain trust, confidence, and overall well-being.

#Say What has become the new four-letter word. US Health and Human Health People 2010 - "Among the five senses, people depend on vision and hearing to provide the primary cues for conducting the basic activities of life. They are critical to most work ad recreation and allow people to interact more fully. For these reasons, vision, and hearing are defying elements of the quality of life. In Episode 12 of Sound Advice: A Hearing Friendly Business Podcast you will hear the value of society adopting inclusive hearing friendly spaces in accommodating for the invisible hearing disability. This will help both people who are deaf, the hard-of-hearing, which I prefer to call the "Hear'rific and Terrific" to empower, people with autism, PTSD, anxiety disorder, and anyone that wants to save their hearing.

What the decibel ranges should be, what's noise levels are ear safe, discussion on what the World Health Organization recommends and Dr. Daniel Finks comment in the Washington Post about how noise is discriminatory and basically in violation of equal enjoyment and equal access which is covered in the ADA 2010 revised standard to include those that wear hearing aids and cochlear implants.

News about what personal care products you use every day that are killing your ear organs insidiously. That's very very slowly. Just by hearing about what grooming products, dental care products, cosmetics, cleaning products, and food additives can do irreversible damage, you get to save these valuable bodily organs that are the communicators to your world. Plus, it's been said, "your ears are the gateway to physical and mental health." Noise has been said, to be discriminatory for those that wear hearing aids or have cochlear implants. Rob Lowe said, "loud restaurants make him ballistic." As we enter into a new world and new time. Take this time to learn how you as a business owner can alter your environment not only for COVID regulations. But how to alter it to reduce hearing loss and be ADA 2010 with inclusive hearing friendly spaces.