{"id":2538,"date":"2008-10-13T11:45:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T11:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everhear.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2019-09-18T14:05:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T21:05:16","slug":"its-a-noisy-planet-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/its-a-noisy-planet-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s A Noisy Planet Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) launched a new campaign aimed at helping parents of 8 to 12 year olds teach their children how to avoid hearing loss from overexposure to loud noise.<\/p>\n<p>The new campaign is called It&#8217;s a Noisy Planet &#8211; Protect Their Hearing. \u00a0The campaign features a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noisyplanet.nidcd.nih.gov\/\">website<\/a> that offers advice to parents on the causes and prevention of noise-induced hearing loss, how to recognize when a child\u2019s hearing is at risk, and ways to reduce noise exposure. The site contains games, posters, and interactive information about noise and hearing loss tailored specifically for tweens.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Noisy Planet campaign advocates three ways to prevent Noise Induced Hearing Loss:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Block the noise by wearing earplugs or protective earmuffs.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid the noise by walking away or limiting time spent in noisy environments.<\/li>\n<li>Turn down the sound!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>This campaign is great, and is exactly the message that needs to go out there to teens (check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/everhear.wpengine.com\/community\/community-bhsm-2008-concert.html\">Turn It Down Concert<\/a> that we hold annually during Better Hearing and Speech Month to spread the same message). If you know a teen or tween that could benefit from this site, please share it with them!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) launched a new campaign aimed at helping parents of 8 to 12 year olds teach their children how to avoid hearing loss from overexposure to loud noise. The new campaign is called It&#8217;s a Noisy Planet &#8211; Protect Their Hearing. \u00a0The campaign features&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hearing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}