Episode 743 · Part 3
What Children’s Care Teaches Us Today
Why watch: The conclusion of the trilogy brings Robin, Peter, and Darryl's stories to their resolutions — and measures the distance between 1969 and today, when nearly every American newborn is screened for hearing before leaving the hospital.
The conclusion of the trilogy brings Robin, Peter, and Darryl's stories to their resolutions — and measures the distance between 1969 and today, when nearly every American newborn is screened for hearing before leaving the hospital. For stakeholders and partners, the completed three-part presentation demonstrates AATV's ability to carry a serious health subject across multiple broadcasts with depth, dignity, and full accessibility.
In this program
- Robin, Peter, and Darryl Three to the Hospital (Columbia University, Department of Nursing, 1969)
Sound Tips™ Companion
The Sound Tips™ ticker looks at children's hearing across communities. Nationally, about 14.9% of children ages 6 to 19 show some low- or high-frequency hearing loss, and about 15% of adolescents ages 12 to 19 are affected. The most recent national data show hearing in children is largely similar across racial and ethnic groups — white, Black, and Hispanic children alike — with family income, not ethnicity, among the strongest childhood risk factors; among adults, hearing loss is most common in non-Hispanic white adults and lowest in non-Hispanic Black adults. The ticker closes the series with a parent's checklist: keep well-child hearing checks, treat ear infections promptly, keep immunizations current, feed growing bodies well, and protect young ears from loud sound — because every child's hearing is worth protecting.
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