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Photo credit: Naomi Shi by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition On Oct. 21, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the professional organization of our nation’s physicians who care for children, issued a policy statement titled "Preventing Excessive Noise Exposure...
Photo credit: Nasirun Khan by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article on the Baylor Scott & White Health Newswise website has a video interview with Dominic Lucia, MD, at the McLane Children’s Medical Center. In the interview, he discusses the...
Photo credit: RF._.studio by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Over forty years ago, I conducted two studies on the impact of noise on children’s learning. In the first...
Photo credit: Monstera by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Kids’ earbuds? You’ve got to be kidding. Unfortunately, though, the Digital Trends site isn’t kidding when reporter Simon Cohen writes, “these kids’ earbuds let outside sounds in automatically.” ...
Photo credit: Yan Krukau by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This NPR article discusses new research showing that children need quiet to help their brains develop normally. Author LA Johnson quotes Nina Kraus, a neurobiologist at Northwestern...
Photo credit: Soly Moses by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies In the latest episode of Skywatch, a TV and online program that hopes to ground the F-35 training flights, Dr....
Photo credit: Coolcaesar licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition USA Today reports that LEGOLAND parks are becoming more autism-friendly. According to the report, by the end of March 2023, all three LEGOLAND parks in the United...
Photo credit: George Milton by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition TV station KDVR in Denver reports that audiologists at UCHealth, the healthcare organization of the University of Colorado, are seeing an increase in teens and young adults with hearing loss....
Photo credit: Polina Chistyakova by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition ZDNET posted this article about the best kids’ headphones of 2023. I added the question mark because I don’t think there are any good headphones for children, certainly not children as...