THE LISTENING ACADEMY

Shortly after emigrating from South Africa in 1996, Carol Lau opened her audiology clinic - Sound idEARS Hearing & Listening Clinic - in Vancouver, Canada. While her practice was doing well as a hearing aid dispensing clinic, she was frequently requested to administer hearing tests on school-aged children by family doctors, teachers and parents. A typical complaint would be : "I don't know if it's his hearing or attention. Sometimes my kid seems to hear everything but gets easily distracted by noise, at other times, he won't even answer me when I call!" Another mom commented : "I can't give her more than one instruction at a time - it's hopeless if I give her more. She comes home after school and doesn't know what homework she needs to do. Her teacher says that she day-dreams and doesn't ask questions even if she doesn't know what to do." Invariably, each and every one of these children had normal hearing abilities... Today, CAPD diagnosis is well established with clear testing..

Also known as: The Listening Academy, Inc.

Primary location: Vancouver Canada