Hearing for Humanity: addressing hearing health in Africa
Nicole Corbin, an audiology doctoral student at ASU, shows teachers at the Nyang’oma School for the Deaf how to take an ear impression on a young boy.
A child at the Nyang’oma School for the Deaf has impressions taken of his ears for ear molds to go with his new hearing aids.
Ingrid McBride, a clinical associate professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences and the director of the audiology program in ASU’s Speech and Hearing Clinic, prepares to perform otoscopy on an apprehensive young child at the Little Field Home Orphanage in Malawi.
Two young girls from Chigamba Village wait to have their ears and hearing checked.
McBride lectures during an all-day training workshop for teachers and staff and Nyang’oma School for the Deaf in Bondo Town, Kenya.
McBride performs otoscopy on a woman from Chigamba Village, Malawi at the Little Field Home Orphanage.
Kristi Petersen, an audiology doctoral student at ASU, fits a hearing aid on a child at the SOS Children’s Village orphanage in Blantyre, Malawi using real ear measurements.
Corbin performs otoscopy on a child at the Nyang’oma School for the Deaf in Bondo Town, Kenya SOS Children’s Village.
Armi Cagingin and Corbin work together to test a child at the African Bible College in Lilongwe, Malawi.
Corbin performs tympanometry and otoacoustic emissions on a child at the Little Field Home Orphanage, Malawi.
McBride demonstrates the technique for taking an ear impression to teachers at the Nynag’oma School for the Deaf in Bondo Town, Kenya.
McBride performs tympanometry on a villager from the Chigamba Village in Malawi SOS Children’s Village.
McBride gets a big smile from a woman who was just fit with hearing aids at the Nyang’oma School for the Deaf in Bondo Town, Kenya.