Organization: NYU Langone Health
Project title: Overcoming Barriers to Immigrant Children Hearing Care
Primary region: AMR
Country: United States of America
Event Description:
World Hearing Day is held on 3rd March each year to raise awareness on how to prevent deafness and hearing loss and promote ear and hearing care across the world. In line with this year’s theme “Changing Mindsets: Empower yourself! Make ear & hearing care a reality for all!”, the NYU Langone Health Immigrant Children Hearing Loss Screening Program staff will be conducting phone outreach to parents of 42 children in NYC and Long Island identified through the program as needing hearing loss assessment but whose parents were unable to keep their appointments.
Recognizing that immigrant families face many social needs challenges in the United States, which present challenges to their ability to keep scheduled appointments, this initiative marking the day, will offer parents a non-working day – special weekend clinic – opportunity including travel assistance to bring their children for evaluation. This clinic will be staffed by Otolaryngologists.
Submitter: Moses Mansu