Hearing Aid Accesibility: A Mother’s 25-Year FDA Fight, and What Needs to Happen Next
“Your daughter has hearing loss—but don’t worry, there are special schools she can attend.”. This was the response our pediatrician gave me after I’d spent months trying to figure out why my toddler didn’t seem to be developing speech. For months, we’d visited one professional after another who’d pretty much all responded to me as though I were simply being a hysterical, overreactive mother.