The study by the charity Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, found that children with hearing dogs grew in confidence, felt safer and achieved more at school.
Researchers questioned parents of children involved in the project over the course of a year.
At the start of the project, 80 per cent of parents were concerned for their child’s safety, 73 per cent had difficulty gaining their child’s attention and 52 per cent experienced problems getting their child to bed and sleeping through the night.
But after living with a hearing dog, concerns about safety issues dropped by 56 per cent, the proportion of parents who had difficulty gaining their child’s attention fell by 48 per cent and problems with bedtime and sleeping issues decreased by 38 per cent.
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