“Monkey Kim and the noisy listening snail” – an illustrated picture book with creative learning games for listening, marveling and comprehending

Millions of children and young people continuously expose their hearing to high levels of noise. But many are not even aware that they are causing long-term and irreversible damage to their hearing through stress, noise, and listening to overly loud music. This is the only way to explain the fact that the number of young people in particular suffering from hearing disorders and tinnitus is growing continuously. For this reason, the development of learning materials for daycare centers is a focus of our prevention work.

Project area kindergarten

With our picture book “Monkey Kim and the noisy cochlea” for daycare centers, children playfully discover their sense of hearing, learn in dialog with each other how hearing works, how sensitive their own hearing is, what tinnitus and hearing loss sound like, and when a visit to the doctor is important. They will also learn the importance of regular hearing testing to prevent tinnitus from occurring in the first place.

In order to prepare and raise awareness, the children, the educators and the parents are interviewed separately about their own hearing ability and that of the children, as well as about noise pollution on site.

The learning picture book can be used as part of a project week. The book is available to order from info@stiftung-tinnitus-und-hoeren-charite.org.

In spring 2023, thanks to a donation from Berliner Volksbank, the first prototypes of the learning picture books could be produced and used in some Berlin daycare centers as part of project weeks. If you would also like to support the further development of this project, you can donate to our prevention project here.