Early interventions aid hearing</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Early interventions aid hearing"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Early,interventions,aid,hearing"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">08-02-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Early interventions aid hearing</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_ITzyB8JDMUS4ISc5NdYv_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Pennsylvania, USA (Pittsburgh Gazette): The FDA has lowered to 12 months the age at which babies can receive cochlear implants, and interventions are coming earlier for the one in 1,000 babies born profoundly or completely deaf. The earlier the assistance, experts say, the more likely that deaf children will speak and comprehend language normally later. The period from birth to 3 1/2 is the "golden period" of plasticity, in which the brain is able to absorb language at an astounding rate that will never be matched in a person's lifetime <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05039/454112.stm " target="blank">www.post-gazette.com/pg/05039/454112.stm </a> <br>For more information about cochlear implants, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05039/454120.stm " target="blank">www.post-gazette.com/pg/05039/454120.stm </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show