Kids2Hear McGill University
3655 Promenade Sir-William-Osler H3G 0B1 Montreal, QC, Canada

Executive Team 2018-2019

Please let me (Annie) know if you are free in the AM or PM of any one of the following dates: - Monday, May 7th - Monday, May 28, or - Monday, June 11th We are looking for volunteers to visit a primary school :)

A little intro to Kids2Hear: Hearing loss is a prevalent condition that affects not only the ears, but also cognition and has a detrimental effect on language and social development. Luckily, doctors can diagnose hearing loss with audiometry in their offices. However, this test can be expensive, time consuming and requires the physician to have a suspicion of hearing loss. ... Detecting hearing loss early is KEY to help patients early in their medical plan, limiting the language delay and increasing their chance of rehabilitation. It is that reality that drives Kids2Hear to visit elementary schools and screen for hearing loss. With an interactive iPad-based application (called Shoebox audiometry) that has showed some benefit, children can be universally tested for hearing function in their school environment. All this for free and it is for the kids some time they enjoy playing a game on an iPad! While Kids2Hear is a McGill medical student-led organization, the iHear initiative started at the university of Ottawa. We invite you to read the paper at the inception of this project The new age of play audiometry: prospective validation testing of an iPad-based audiometerpublished in the Journal of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery! You can find the full article at this link-> https://drive.google.com//1bW2tBbPiyEy9BmfoJMwbbPGa2/view Happy reading

**Volunteering opportunity** Kids2hear would need 2 volunteers to visit Sainte-Bernadette de Soubirous elementary school on May 1st PM (12:45 -3:00) If you would like to help out testing children's hearing via an interactive iPad game, contact Marianne Plourde or leave your McGill email in the comments Thank you!

Volunteer opportunity this Friday! If you are free this Friday, April 5th 10:30 AM-12: 15 and would like to help out testing children's hearing at Royal Vale elementary school, send a message to Khadidja Chelabi or leave your McGill email address below (in the comments:) Thanks!

Here is the registration form for school visits Write your first and last name AND your McGill email in the blue cell corresponding to the school visit you wish to attend. We will send you a confirmation email with important information later this week. We are still in the process of contacting schools so volunteering opportunities might open later on. Thank you all for your help!... https://docs.google.com//1dGnY3NwiwijQEmKsMdkQRMfcGm/edit

Hi everyone! The Kids2Hear team is very happy to say school visits will start soon and we need your help as volunteers! If you are a medical or dental student at McGill and you would like to spend a day in an elementary school with kids playing an iPad game (as a hearing test), come and join us! A Google Doc will be posted tomorrow (around 3:30 PM) for registrations.