Do you have pre-school children?  Have a hearing test done before the little one starts formal schooling.

Hearing loss can occur if a child:

• was born prematurely
• stayed in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
• had newborn jaundice with bilirubin level high enough to require a blood transfusion
• has family members with childhood hearing loss
• had certain complications at birth
• had many ear infections
• had infections such as meningitis or cytomegalovirus

Signs of a hearing loss may include:

• poor language and speech development when compared to other similar aged children
• frequently inattentive
• difficulty learning
• seems to need higher TV volume
• fails to respond to conversation-level speech or answers inappropriately to speech
• fails to respond to his or her name or easily frustrated when there's a lot of background noise