Hearing in children childhood deafness is a significant global issue affecting more than 62 million children younger than 15 years old 2 3 of whom reside in developing countries the source of child deafness is widely under reported and varied but medical experts point to insufficient prenatal care lack of immunizations exposure to ototoxic drugs and chronic middle ear infection as . World hearing day major causes of hearing loss in children globally over 400 million people worldwide are living with disabling hearing loss of these more than 30 million are children. Following are tips for parents to help prevent hearing loss in their children have a healthy pregnancy make sure your child gets all the regular childhood vaccines keep your child away from high noise levels such as from very loud toys visit the national institutes of healths. Newborn hearing screening identifies most children born with a hearing loss but in some cases the hearing loss is caused by things like infections trauma and damaging noise levels and the problem doesnt emerge until later in childhood researchers believe that the number of people who have hearing loss doubles between birth and the teen years so its important to have kids hearing . Every year this day march 3 is marked world hearing day to raise awareness on how to prevent deafness and hearing loss and promote ear and hearing care