Deafness is a persistent hearing loss that complicates the perception of sounds and leads to impaired speech development. Deafness can be acquired due to diseases of the ear and nasopharynx or congenital. For the normal development and adaptation in society, such a child must be examined in time, make the correct diagnosis, prescribe treatment, competent selection of hearing aids or the subsequent installation of a special hearing implant.
There are two main types of deafness: neurosensory, which affects the receptor apparatus of the snail and cerebral cortex, and conductive, when damaged or underdeveloped conductive hearing aid - the ear canal and eardrum. If a patient is diagnosed with signs of both deafness, it is mixed deafness.
According to statistics, every ninth person in Ukraine suffers from hearing loss due to trauma, illness or birth defects, including 186,000 children with disabilities, and according to UNICEF, 212,000 sick children and 85,000 children with severe disability.
Under the Ufond.Hearing program, in 2015 we began cooperation with the Betterton Hearing Center. Since 2017, we have been cooperating with the international network of ACIBADEM clinics (Turkey) for cochlear implantation. From 2021 with the center of hearing aids "Medical Center".