{"id":223751,"date":"2021-03-01T17:26:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T17:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenthearing.com\/?p=223751"},"modified":"2022-11-22T21:35:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T21:35:10","slug":"world-hearing-day-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenthearing.com\/world-hearing-day-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"World Hearing day 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">World Hearing Day 2021 takes place on Wednesday March 3<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>rd<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\">.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This annual event is organised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) with the objective of raising awareness for hearing loss across the globe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This year\u2019s theme is \u2018Hearing Care for ALL! Screen, Rehabilitate, Communicate\u2019. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Its key messages are that good hearing and communication are important at all stages of life and that hearing loss and related ear diseases can be avoided through preventative actions such as protection against loud sounds, good ear care practices and immunisation. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The theme of Hearing Care for All was also reflected strongly in the development of the WHO Primary Ear and Hearing Care manual that Dr Priya Carling helped review and rewrite for WHO in 2019-2020.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This manual is now used by doctors, audiologists and healthcare workers and significant others in low to middle income countries worldwide.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This year\u2019s World Hearing Day also marks the launch of the first ever World Report on Hearing, which be published on the same day.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Due to Covid 19 restrictions it is not possible to have an interactive event at Kent Hearing to mark World Hearing Day, as we have done in previous years.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Instead, we are sponsoring 3 puppies from the charity Hearing Dogs for Deaf People (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hearingdogs.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><span class=\"s3\">www.hearingdogs.org.uk<\/span><\/a>).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The sponsorship will provide full training for each puppy to enable them to be matched with a deaf partner and become their full-time companion and guide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-223753\" src=\"https:\/\/kenthearing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/366c4efb22c96fc2ecd8cf8d024e786d3e802cd1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Hearing Day 2021 takes place on Wednesday March 3rd.\u00a0 This annual event is organised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) with the objective of raising awareness for hearing loss across the globe. This year\u2019s theme is \u2018Hearing Care for ALL! Screen, Rehabilitate, Communicate\u2019. \u00a0 Its key messages are that good hearing and communication are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenthearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenthearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenthearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenthearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenthearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenthearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223754,"href":"https:\/\/kenthearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223751\/revisions\/223754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenthearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenthearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenthearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenthearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}