It is recommended that audiologists resist the urge to please the child and parent with brightly colored earmolds and select a clear- or flesh-colored material (acrylic, vinyl, silicone) that is less likely to draw attention and more likely to remain in the ears. Also, once the earmold features that were necessary to reduce feedback during infancy are no longer necessary, a vent should be provided to allow input through the direct pathway for frequency regions having normal or near-normal hearing sensitivity rather than routing these frequency regions through the amplification pathway.