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The West Franklin Street Elementary School
Can He Hear The School Bells Ring?
School bells will soon be ring
ing loud and clear throughout
the land, but well over two mil
lion school age children will not
even hear the bells.
According to the Hearing Aid
Industry Conference, from five
to seven per cent of all school
age children have some degree
of hearing loss. The impact of
e neglected hearing problem on
a child's development is under
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scored by the fact that children
with a hearing difficulty repeat
grades four times as often as
children with normal hearing.
The longer a hearing loss goes
unrecognized, the longer and
more difficult will be the period
of rehabilitation and the more
serious the set-back to the
youngster's development. Neg
lect in these cases is truly trag
ic because according to the
THE* CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
Hearing Aid Industry Confer
ence at least 60 per cent of all
hearing impairments among
young children can be corrected
if action is taken at an early
enough age.
Although periodic hearing
tests are conducted in many
up-to-date school systems, a
hearing loss may have, occurred
since the child's hearing was
last tested. Therefore, parents
are advised to arrange for an
nual check-ups through the fam
ily physician, who, in turn, if
he suspects a hearing loss will
recommend a visit to an otolo
gist (medical hearing specialist*.
The otologist, in turn, will be
able to advise on the proper
method of correction through
medical treatment, surgery or
the use of a hearing aid.
Impaired hearing be a
result of last winter’s illness.
The common cold is responsible
for about 40 per cent of all im
paired hearing in children. En
larged adenoids and tonsils are
additional factors which cause
a temporary loss which may
lead to infection and permanent
loss.
■ Even a summer of swimming
presents the possibility for a
hearing loss to occur. An infec
tion might have been contracted
from swimming in polluted water.
Or the ear drum might have
been damaged from diving too
deeply or from ocean breakers
hitting the ear.
In rr>any cases, neglected hear
ing loss is interpreted as a be
havioral problem, or inability
or slowness in learning. Unfor
tunately these are side effects
of hearing loss. A child who
cannot hear the teacher, not
only misses the lesson, but can
not focus his attention on the
class Because a child who does
not hear property feels "left
out" and neglected, he may re
sort to tantrums and disruptive
behavior in an effort to assert
appearance helps
Surveys have shown that when
a student’s appearance improves,
study habits, grades, behavior
and popularity improve also.
Every teen-ager can be neat
and well dressed, and it doesn’t
require a lot of money.
"Carefully-chosen clothes are
important because they give the
teen-ager self - assurance and
poise," according to Morse Ge
vanthor, style expert for Wales
rainwear. "Remember that ‘best
dressed’ and ’most dressed' are
not the same.”
himself and attract attention.
Even one year in which a
hearing loss is neglected can
seriously damage a child’s de
velopment. Therefore, parents
are urged to include a hearing
check-up as a vital part of their
children’s back-to-school prepa
rations.
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Most West Franklin
Teachers Are New
All of the faculty memiiers of
West Franklin School are vir
tually new, since West Franklin
did not exist as an elementary
school last year. Os the faculty
of ten at West Franklin, half
are actually new to the Chapel
Hill school system:
.Mrs. Theresa Bolick, sixth
grade; Miss Susan BonDurant,
second grade. Miss Diane C.
Knsrr, fourth grade; Mrs. Lucy
W. Straley, fifth grade: and Mrs.
Mary Ellen Van Reese, first
grade.
West Franklin teachers who
taught elsewhere in Chapel Hill
last year:
Mrs. Barbara D. Day, princi
pal; Mrs. Kay M. Bishop, spec
ial education; Mrs. Evelyn L.
Murdoch, special education; Miss
Jonquelyn Simpson, third grade;
and Mrs. Barbara Thomas, sec
ond grade.
Th? Boys Are More
Prone To Injuries
National Safety Courjcil
studies show surprising aspects
in the answers to these ques
tions. Children in rural areas
have as many, or more, accidents
as city children. A child is more
likely to be injured or killed al
ter he’s home from school than
he is while riding to or from
school.
Accidents are most likely to
happen on a Saturday and least
likely to happen on a Sunday,
the NSC says. Boys are far
more liable to have accidents;
—a~42 state survey showed that
6 per cent of the children hurt
were males.