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Organization: Axon Children’s Centre
Title: Changing Mindsets: Let’s Make Ear and Hearing Care a Reality for All
Alternate tite:
Changing mindsets: Making hearing care a reality for all
Description:
World Hearing Day 2025: Making Hearing Care a Reality for All
An Awareness Campaign by Axon Children’s Centre
Hearing is more than just one of our five senses — it’s a vital part of how we connect, communicate, and learn. But for millions of people around the world, especially children with developmental challenges, hearing issues often go unnoticed until they begin to affect speech, behaviour, and overall development.
In conjunction with World Hearing Day 2025, Axon Children’s Centre launched a centre-wide awareness campaign to promote early detection, raise public awareness, and improve access to hearing care for both children and adults.
Inspired by this year’s global theme, “Changing Mindsets: Let’s Make Ear and Hearing Care a Reality for All,” our campaign focused on three key initiatives:
1. Interactive Social Media Campaign
We engaged our community online with fun and informative content — including quizzes, fun facts, myth-busting posts, and real-life stories. This helped spark meaningful conversations about hearing care and reduce the stigma surrounding hearing issues.
2. Healthy Ears Check Campaign
Axon offered free consultations and discounted hearing screenings, especially targeting high-risk groups such as children with autism, Down syndrome, and speech delays. The campaign aimed to make hearing checks more accessible for families who might otherwise delay or miss early detection.
3. Educational Article: “A to Z: Hearing Loss in Children”
We published a comprehensive guide for parents, educators, and caregivers, explaining the causes, signs, and management of hearing loss in children. This resource helped families recognize early warning signs and understand what steps to take next.
To further support children and families, Axon Children’s Centre partners with Eartistic Hearing and Balance Centre — a trusted provider of audiology services in Malaysia. This collaboration brings professional hearing care directly to our centre.
Eartistic’s certified audiologists, registered with the Malaysian Allied Health Professions Council (MAHPC), offer in-depth hearing assessments and support for:
– Children with developmental delays, autism, and speech challenges
– Adults with hearing loss, tinnitus, or balance issues such as BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo)
By offering audiology services on-site, we help families access expert care quickly and easily, supporting early intervention and improving outcomes.
This campaign reflects Axon Children’s Centre’s commitment to multidisciplinary care. By working together — educators, therapists, audiologists, and families — we ensure each child gets the comprehensive support they need to thrive.
We believe that hearing health is not a luxury — it’s a right. Our campaign didn’t just raise awareness — it empowered families with knowledge, access, and the confidence to seek help early.
Through this initiative, we reached countless families, started important conversations, and built stronger bridges to care. At Axon, we remain dedicated to making hearing care a reality for all — because every child deserves the chance to hear, to be heard, and to belong.
Primary site: WPR – Malaysia
Secondary sites: Cyberjaya
Impactful Story:
“We Finally Had Answers” – Supporting a Child with Autism
Parents of 5-year-old Alissa
Alissa, who is autistic, often didn’t respond to sounds — we thought it was just part of her condition. During Axon’s World Hearing Day event, we realized her hearing had never been properly assessed. With Eartistic’s help, she was diagnosed with auditory processing disorder. This changed everything. Her speech therapist adapted her approach, and Alissa is now more engaged. For the first time, we feel empowered.
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Types of Engagement:
Screening: Yes
Traditional media: No
Social media: Yes
Special needs populations:
Participation of policy makers: No
Participation of influencers: No