Show HOW TO TEST YOUR CHILD'S HEARING eoettlastai from preceding page ommend a watch-tic- k test A loud ticking watch should be used preferably in a quiet room with draperies A child as young as three years old can be tested this way Here's how: Tell your child to shut his eyes and cover one of his ears with his hand or finger pressure Thin stand behind him holding the watch in the palm of your hand on a level with his uncovered - Hold it at first about a foot away Then gradually move the watch farther away — a foot at a time — until a distance of four feet is reached Record the distance at which your child fails to hear the tick Repeat the test of course with the other ear know a boy who was frequently punished by his parents for "disobeying" Recently when he was playing outside his mother called him to come in to lunch but he didn't respond He did come though when his sister playing nearby told him that he was being called ld negative lespedis CURIOV his father decided to test and give him the watch-tic- k found that his son couldn't hear a tick at all He also used the whis Ompt INs WWI Wool Aiwa III 7101111 MIL N T 54 Wog N W Tomb per test and got similar negative resulU The boy was taken immediately to an ear specialist and his rernaining hearing was saved That's the purpose of all of these home tests "They serve to call attention to hearing impairments which might exist — and get worse — lot years before being discovered" explains Dr Otto Risch noted New York ear specialist If any of these home tests throws doubt on your child's ability to hear properly your family doctor not having scientific testing equipment in his office will probably refer you to an ear specialist or bearing clinic There a child' can get a more audio thorough test on a pure-ton- e meter — a truly scientific method of measuring hearing But instead of following up hearing losses in their children there are too many parents who foolishly say "My child will outgrow his - s ear trouble" Unfortunately even some family doctors encourage this attitude Dr Thomas Ir Tolan a Milwaukee ear specialist who is president of the American Hearing Society charges: "The medical profession has too often said 'Let's wait until the child is a little older and false-securi-ty then see how he is getting along' "But by 'raking we have wasted a year possibly two orthree years and delayed correcting what con be corrected" If neglected a hearing loss usually grows worse Though it doesn't hurt or "show" the way other ailments do deafness strikes twice the number of persons suffering from cancer heart disease polio and tuberculosis combined Daa foam Begins Early REGRETTABLY many grownups think only in terms of normal hearing and total deafness We forget that a child may only have partial hearing "The tragedy of deafness is that it often begins in early life" warns Dr James E Landis Pennsyl- vania Conservation of Committee chairman "Deaf adults were in all probability once deaf or children "This handicap might have been prevented if these children bad' received proper attention during their childhood" Another hearing authority sighed "If Mother Nature had only put our ears in front of our heads maybe we would pay more The End attention to them" C PEPSODENT! Gives 3 - You G2©FgVaS Thanks to ORAL DSTERCENT Discovery! 171 I Pepsodent's exclusive ORAL DETER GENT cleans your teeth cleanest And the cleaner your teeth are the better you fight the cause of bad breath and tooth decay Uni- Tests conducted at a versity prove Pepsodent's ORAL DE Mid-Weste- rn 41 Only TERGENT cleans teeth cleanest of any leading tooth paste But you can prove it to yourself your proof is Pepsodent's Clean Mouth Taste that lasts for hours Lever Bros Co unconditionally guarantees your satisfaction or money refunded PEPSODENT't ORAL arrEnclta Cleans Your Teeth Cleanest! Cleans Even Where Your Brush Can't Reach 4t 24 TV1-4-- 3643 |