Good toy hearing aids and cochlear implants are hard to come by but some parents have ordered the Build-A-Bear soft hearing aid from the USA. In what has to be the best example of ‘if you don’t ask, you don’t get’ that I’ve seen in a while it’s wonderful to see that Build-A-Bear in the UK are now stocking soft hearing aids for their toys. Sarah Smith, who is the mother of a deaf child and active contributor in the Pimp my hearing aids / cochlear implants UK Facebook group, tweeted the CEB of Build-A-Bear in the USA and as you can see the result was positive and speedy.

So far they have no plans to make a cochlear implant for their teddies so who is going to begin the asking? If you don’t ask…