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“An elegant and simple solution to a concern common to many parents in today’s homes. Great protection for baby’s knees, allowing timely development of normal postural strength in the spine.”

Dr. Patrick F. Hewitt B.SC., D.C., Chiropractor, Health Coach, Nutrition Adviser to the National Training Centre for Squash and Canada’s Coast to-Coast Riders, father of 3.
 

Jackson (left) and Flynn (right) Atkinson


Unfortunately, due to a lack of funding, The Learning to Listen Foundation had to close its doors.  Bee's Knees remains committed to the cause of infant hearing loss and will be announcing our donation for another area in this community soon

Our Story

Jackson, son of Tammany and Paul, is profoundly deaf. His parents' dream was that their son would hear, and learn to listen and talk. Jackson received a cochlear implant and Tammany and Paul chose the Learning to Listen Foundation to guide them in helping their son learn to listen and speak. Tammany and Paul support the Learning to Listen Foundation as their personal charity through Bee's Knees.

The Learning to Listen Foundation (LTLF) is a federally incorporated, charitable organization which has as its primary responsibility, the Auditory Learning Centre (ALC) at the Phillips House of North York General Hospital in Toronto , Canada . ALC provides auditory-verbal therapy for very young children who are deaf and hard of hearing and their families, and auditory rehabilitation for adults who receive a cochlear implant. In addition, LTLF is instrumental in the publication and distribution of books, manuals, videotapes, CDs and DVDs which assist parents and professionals with Auditory-Verbal Practice worldwide. In addition to a global consulting program, the Learning to Listen Foundation provides Professional Education Programs (PEPs) for teachers of children who are deaf, speech-language pathologists, audiologists and health care professionals in related disciplines from around the world.

Warren Estabrooks,
M.Ed., Dip. Ed. Deaf, Cert. AVT®
Director of The Learning to Listen Foundation
www.learningtolisten.org

Who It's For: Patients with damaged cocleas who don't benefit from traditional hearing aids. Cochlear damage can be inherited, or caused by noise, aging, head injuries or infections. The devices have been available for about 20 years and have been implanted in 90,000 people worldwide. The technology of Cochlear Implants has drastically improved in recent years.

What it does: Channels sound around damaged parts of the cochlea to directly stimulate the hearing nerve.

How it Works: 1) An external earpiece picks up the sound, and converts it to digital signals. 2) A transmitter sends the signals to an implant under the skin. 3) Signals are sent to an array of electrodes coiled inside the cochlea. 4) The electrodes directly stimulate nerve endings, bypassing damaged hair cells that normally pick up sound signals. Nerves relay the sound information to the brain.

 
 
 


A portion of the proceeds are donated to The Learning to Listen Foundation, teaching
children who are deaf how to hear, listen, talk and sing through Auditory Verbal Therapy.

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