Special Update:  Next Webinar. What Did You Say? Understanding Hearing Loss in Stickler Syndrome

September 12, 2020, Saturday
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Description:  Learn how to detect hearing loss in children, understand how hearing loss may become more severe over time, and become informed and about treatments such as hearing aids and cochlear implants.

SPEAKER:  Michael S. Cohen, MD
Harvard Medical School, Director, Pediatric Hearing Loss Clinic, Massachusetts Eye and Ear

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Welcome to the web site of Stickler Involved People (SIP), the U.S. support group helping those with Stickler Syndrome since 1994.

Stickler syndrome (hereditary progressive arthro-ophthalmopathy) is a connective tissue disorder, a genetic malfunction in the tissue that connects bones, eyes, and ears. This disorder is associated with problems to vision, hearing, bone and joint, facial and cleft palate.

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Dr. Gunnar Stickler (1925 – 2010) was a pediatrician who made significant contributions to the field of pediatrics and was the first scientist to describe the hereditary condition now named in his honor, Stickler Syndrome.  Dr. Stickler went on to co-author more than 200 scientific papers.

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