More than 23,000 adults and 15,500 children have received cochlear implants, according to the Food and Drug Administration. These devices can help adults who have lost most or even all of their hearing later in life to learn to associate the signal provided by an implant with sounds they remember. The technology can provide recipients [...]
29Jul09
About Cochlear Implants
New hearing technologies continue to revolutionize the hearing abilities for those who are facing increasing hearing loss due to aging or illness. One of these innovative approaches is Live Speech Mapping for hearing aid fittings — sometimes touted as an MRI of your aid’s setting.
Mapping uses the voices of a patient’s family member or friend [...]
Athletes who are deaf or hard of hearing but didn’t let the disability get in the way of their love of sports are preparing to compete in the Summer Deaflympics in Taipei, Taiwan, Sept. 5-15. Events that 2009 Team USA athletes will be participating in include athletics (track and field), basketball, beach volleyball, bowling, cycling, [...]
U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) has introduced comprehensive legislation to ensure that people with disabilities have access to Internet-based telecommunications and video programming technologies. The bill, the Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009 (H.R. 3101), is referred to as the COAT bill. Organizations for people with hearing loss are actively supportive of [...]
13Jul09
Use Your iPhone as a Hearing Aid
A new application (released June 11, 2009) for the Apple iPhone has been designed to aid people with poor hearing, featuring abilities that not even a hearing aid can boast of. Essentially a volume booster, the app amplifies everything that is being heard by the microphone and allows the user to set which frequencies to [...]
Actor Lou Ferrigno, the “Hulk” actor from the Incredible Hulk television series, has been in the news a lot lately because he was working out with pop star Michael Jackson before his untimely death last week. But long before he was a celebrity or hung out with celebrities, he was a champion for not letting [...]
If you or a loved one suffers from hearing loss, adding captions to movies and programs can’t come soon enough. This week, another big advancement for hearing-impaired individuals has been made: The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville will offer captions for the hearing impaired for the first time.
The captions were added due to a Hearing [...]
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