In this modern day and age, there's never been a better time for technological help, and there's no better location than the support you'll find in Pittsburgh, specifically at the nonprofit DePaul School for Hearing and Speech.

Children attending the school can talk, but hearing is a vital step they're missing in communicating.

Teacher Lindsay Diethorn said she became a teacher here after working as an audiologist.

"Hearing loss is a developmental emergency," said Diethorn. "As an audiologist at Children's Hospital, I have had the experience of giving a family the diagnosis that their baby can't hear, and it can be devastating for some families. All of our intermediate families' units that work with our elementary age kids have educational audiologists, speech language pathologists, and

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