When your child is struggling, we don’t just tell you what’s hard. We find out why it’s hard.

If your child is struggling in school, having trouble with reading, listening, following directions, or keeping up in class, the next step is not more guessing. We help identify the bottleneck, whether it involves hearing, auditory processing, or another hidden factor, so you can choose the right next step.

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Why Hearing Kids?

When your child is struggling in school, with reading, listening, behavior, or following directions, it is easy to get stuck collecting labels without getting real answers. Hearing Kids helps you figure out why your child is struggling, not just what they are struggling with. Whether the issue involves hearing, auditory processing, development, or another hidden bottleneck, we help you find the reason behind the struggle so you can make better decisions about what to do next.

WHAT WE ASSESS

the five areas we assess:
• Auditory Acuity
How clearly your child hears
• Auditory Processing
Your child's perception of time and space and ability to understand speech
• Neurological Development
How your child’s mind grows
• Academic Excellence
How to help your child in the classroom
• Misophonia
How to help your child tolerate currently intolerable sounds

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HOW WE HELP

some of the tools and supports we may recommend:
• Buffalo Model Aural Rehabilitation
• Customized binaural beats
• Customized earplugs
• Dichotic Interaural Intensity Differences (DIID)
• EASe Auditory Integration Training
• FastForword
• Forbrain
• Integrated Listening Systems (iLs)
• Rest and Reset Protocol (RRP)
• Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP)
• Therapeutic Listening

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Meet Chanie

Chanie Monoker, CCC-A, is a licensed audiologist in New York and New Jersey and the founder of Hearing Kids. For more than 30 years, she has focused on the learning process and on helping children whose struggles are missed, misunderstood, or explained too late.

As an educational audiologist and developmental interventionist, Chanie developed the developmental audiologist model to answer the question many families still do not get answered: why is this child struggling? Her work looks beyond labels to identify the bottleneck affecting learning, listening, and day-to-day functioning so parents can make clearer decisions about what to do next.

She is also a mother of six and has built both her work and her home around one powerful question: why?

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