"Keeping it Down on the Farm"

At the National Future Farmers of America convention in Indianapolis, the National Instutute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) launched online materials to encourage parents to protect their preteen's hearing from loud noises on the farm.

The effort is part of NIDCD's national public education campaign, It's a Noisy Plant. Protect Their Hearing, designed to increase awarenes of the causes and prevention of noise-induced hearing loss among parents of children 8 to 12. The new "Keeping it Down on the Farm" materials included downloadable tip sheets on how to reduce noise and a list of common sounds found on the farm that occur at potentially damagin levels.

Find them here: Keeping it Down on the Farm