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
When it comes to maintaining health overall, men tend to wait for more serious symptoms to appear before seeking treatment. That’s because men often feel that if they don’t act on a symptom, then they don’t really have a health problem. Health professions are working together to try and overcome that perception by encouraging men [...]
The Journal of Pediatrics recently released a study on how much people understand about hearing loss and the intentional exposure to loud music.
The objective of the study was to compare awareness of music-induced hearing loss to the behavior trends. The article states that they believe that music-induced hearing loss is an unconsciously self-inflicted public health [...]
What could have been a tragedy for an elderly man in the UK turned out to be quite a remarkable story. What is believed to have been the work of an arson, a four story building was set on fire last Saturday. A 64-year-old deaf man lived in that building and would have slept right [...]
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 [...]
Apparently, it’s one thing to say your place of employment has a hearing protection program and another to actually ensure it is protecting employees properly.
A new review of existing employer hearing protection programs seems to indicate that there is little evidence to support the workplace programs. That doesn’t mean that workers don’t wear earplugs and [...]
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 [...]
Most of us have are either left-handed or right-handed, have a particular eye dominance, and will choose one foot over another repeatedly when kicking a ball. But most people haven’t thought of having a preferred ear from which to hear — until recently.
A recent Italian study claims that individuals are more likely to perform a [...]
Know your rights! If you are deaf or have a hearing impairment you should take a look at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s website. They have a section for questions and answers about deafness and hearing impairments in the workplace.
It covers frequently asked questions like “May an employer request medical information about an applicant’s hearing [...]
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