Low-cost nasal balloon procedure can help treat children's hearing loss: study

Ear infections and difficulty hearing can play a role in a child's language development.  

For children with a history of otitis media with effusion - an inflammatory disease affecting the inner ear that can result in difficulty hearing, there may be a new solution.

A study has investigated the use of nasal balloon treatment as an alternative to antibiotics, steroids, and surgery. 

CTV provides insight to the study and the research behind this practical procedure for treatment.

CTV News: Low-cost nasal balloon procedure can help treat children's hearing loss: study

Predicting reading issues - and intervening - early!

"New research suggests it may be possible to predict which preschoolers will struggle to read – and it has to do with how the brain deciphers speech when it’s noisy.Scientists are looking for ways to tell, as young as possible, when children are at risk for later learning difficulties so they can get early interventions." (Neergaard, 2015)

Find out about this new study, and how it hope to change the way infants and toddlers are screened and identified as being at risk for reading difficulties. 

Kids who struggle with reading: Predicting issues - and intervening - early