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April 30, 2005
Sign language interpreting diploma on offer
A sign language interpreter’s job is to facilitate communication. He must clearly understand what he is hearing and seeing in order to accurately interpret information.
Posted @ 11:06 PM
Loud and clear
Raymond Coleman urges perseverance when it comes to obtaining and getting used to hearing aids. It took him almost two years to get the programming right and he hopes his story will help others get it right first time.
Posted @ 11:03 PM
Surfing made easier for deaf
Surfing the internet is set to become much easier for deaf people, thanks to pioneering technology developed in Norfolk.
Posted @ 3:11 PM
April 29, 2005
Foreign language may include signing
Two bills that would allow students to receive foreign language credit for classes in American Sign Language are making their way though both houses of the Missouri General Assembly this year.
Posted @ 4:44 PM
Scientists find deafness gene through mutant mice
Scientists in Hong Kong and Britain have discovered a gene responsible for hearing, a breakthrough that could eventually lead to a cure for congenital deafness.
Posted @ 11:37 AM
When you're dizzy and your ears ring
Meniere's disease is a disorder of the inner ear that's among the most common causes of dizziness.
Posted @ 11:15 AM
April 28, 2005
Parents face hard choices for disabled kids
Two East Valley families each awoke one day to the same news: They have a deaf child. With that, they had to make education choices in a time when technology has given parents more options.
Posted @ 9:52 AM
Spatial hearing aid can provide direction of sound
"Our research used a unique approach. We have simulated hearing-impaired listening in ourselves so that we really understand the issues confronting our end users. We aren't simply developing another hearing aid. Through our research we are examining how best to solve some of the most pressing problems facing hearing aid wearers in a new way."
Posted @ 9:49 AM
Loud music attributes to students' hearing loss
Huh? Beg your pardon? What was that again? College students may expect those questions from grandparents, but according to specialists at Auburn’s Speech and Hearing Clinic, hearing problems are forming earlier and many college students are starting to ask the same questions.
Posted @ 2:13 AM
Rush to get bionic tune up
Let me give you a programming note. I'm not going to be here tomorrow, folks. I gotta go back out to the ear doctor out there on the left coast. Something strange has begun to happen, just a minor technical thing, but I have to go to the doctor's office to get it fixed.
Posted @ 2:10 AM
April 27, 2005
Cochlear Implants bring a smile on the lips of 6 year old Muskan
How little Muskan who was born deaf has now benefited from The Cochlear Implants technology. For the Sohar couple Monica and Rajesh, after a lot of heart burn and tears their two children can ultimately be a part of mainstream life.
Posted @ 3:16 PM
Ear bionics may help paraplegics and quadriplegics move
If new research from Australia fulfills its early promise, the technology that allows the deaf to hear will soon be able to help people with spinal injuries. As reported in the Australian media in April, the extensions to bionic ear technology could bring movement and feeling to paraplegics and quadriplegics. Epileptics may also benefit from the developments.
Posted @ 3:09 PM
April 26, 2005
Conn.'s first housing for the hearing impaired planned for Middletown
For a fortunate few, the isolation that comes with deafness and is sharpened by old age could be eased with a housing project of their own in Middletown.
Posted @ 1:45 AM
Disability doesn't stop pole-vaulter's success at NU
Senior Pat Southern is not average. With every plant of his pole, every invert and every 15-foot fall, Southern may seem like the average pole-vaulter risking death, but there is much more to him than that.
Posted @ 1:39 AM
Findings in April National Ear, Nose, and Throat Society Journal
Some 25 original articles are featured in the April 2005 edition of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery Foundation.
Posted @ 1:35 AM
April 25, 2005
Hagemeyer launches revolutionary Sonomax Solution
Sonomax System is the Future of Hearing Protection in Europe. Hagemeyer is launching SonoCustom(TM) from Sonomax Hearing Healthcare Inc. at the Safety and Health Expo (Birmingham NEC May 17th-19th 2005). It will be the first time the health and safety industry in the United Kingdom will see and have the chance to be fitted for the Sonomax(TM) hearing protection system.
Posted @ 2:40 PM
Deaf culture clash
Inside Classroom 114, preschool teacher Kathy Ste-phens asked 4-year-old Kordell Waldner, "Do you need to go to the potty?" The boy got up and walked to the bathroom. When he finished, she told him to wash his hands. He stopped at the sink to do so.
Posted @ 4:03 AM
Hear, hear
Shelley Neal’s 2-year-old daughter, Emily, is responding to sound like never before, ever since she received her cochlear implant about a year and a half ago.
Posted @ 12:56 AM
April 24, 2005
Game with deaf school team signals start of unique friendship in Korea
South Korea — Seoul American High School baseball players and their peers from the Sungsim School for the Deaf took to the ballpark at Yongsan Wednesday in a "friendship game."
Posted @ 5:27 PM
April 23, 2005
Ear tubes
Ear infections are one of the most common diseases in early childhood and ear tube surgery is the most common operation in children. Now there's evidence it is a safe and effective way to protect hearing in childhood.
Posted @ 12:56 PM
April 22, 2005
Storyteller tells tales with sign language
Professional storyteller Diane Ferlatte combines sign language, funny noises, expressive facial movements and song when she tells her stories.
Posted @ 4:44 PM
Keep it down, European employers told
Loud noise at work can lead to hearing loss, accidents and stress, the EU executive commission said this week, launching a campaign to raise awareness before tougher rules come into force next year.
Posted @ 4:09 PM
April 21, 2005
Sound advice
"Let's begin," the doctor said as he sent a series of high-pitch pulses into the subject's ears. Afterward, an automated voice said, "Repeat after me: baseball ... mew ... there."
Posted @ 4:14 PM
A voice amid silence
With a sly smile and silver hair beneath a brimmed black hat, Sue Thomas stands out despite her short stature. But what really sets her apart is her peculiar accent, the one that came from being deaf from childhood and learning to talk without hearing her voice … or anyone else’s.
Posted @ 6:36 AM
Are there any new treatments for tinnitus?
From rock concerts to fireworks on the Fourth of July, exposure to loud noise can raise your risk of a common hearing disorder. A viewer wants to know whether there are any new treatments for this disease that affects more than 50 million Americans.
Posted @ 6:32 AM
Eye Caption
Theater lovers with severe hearing loss often have to wait for special performances with big caption boards or humans who sign the dialogue. Now that is changing thanks to some new technology so deaf people can enjoy opening night as well as those who can hear.
Posted @ 6:29 AM
April 20, 2005
Seven year old hears for first time
A Colorado Springs girl heard for the first time Tuesday, thanks to surgery and an implant. "Maddie pushed us," said mom Sara Kennedy. "We were very uncertain, this is serious surgery, it changes the ear forever."
Posted @ 12:10 AM
Studies show ear tubes in children slowly improve hearing
KUOPIO, Finland - Two studies assessing the long-term safety of treating young children's chronic ear infections by implanting ventilation tubes generally confirm the treatment.
Posted @ 12:06 AM
April 19, 2005
Ringing in the ears
Every year, several readers write to complain that they have the same problem as Beethoven had: "My ears whistle and buzz constantly day and night. I am leading a wretched life."
Posted @ 4:13 PM
Deaf student's world comes alive through use of sign language
Third grader Gerardo Torres is one amazing kid. He tells his story best in a piece he wrote entitled "I Hear Quiet."
Posted @ 4:12 PM
Deaf mother can hear after ear op
A Shropshire mother is enjoying all the sounds the rest of us take for granted thanks to a miracle operation which has restored her hearing after more than two decades in near-silence.
Posted @ 4:09 PM
April 18, 2005
Smaller, sleeker hearing aids
Forget the hearing aids of the past - those clunky devices that amplified every little sound and made it all but impossible to hear a conversation in a crowded restaurant.
Posted @ 11:49 AM
Being deaf poem
This poem was written by Amanda aka TongueOnFire, who expressed her feelings and thoughts about her deafness...
Posted @ 1:24 AM
Hearing-aid maker GN ReSound growing quietly
GN ReSound probably is one of the largest Twin Cities companies you've never heard of.
Posted @ 1:16 AM
April 17, 2005
More students signing up for courses in sign language
Hate to conjugate? More and more U.S. college students are studying a "foreign" language that is used in this country and expressed with the hands: American Sign Language.
Posted @ 11:20 AM
Scuba lessons succeed without talk
Scuba-diving instructor Chris Zelnio helped student Shawna Grant check her gear before class at the Golden Triangle YMCA pool.
Posted @ 11:00 AM
April 16, 2005
Sign language for baby
Her name's Gabby, but she's learning to speak with hands for grandparents. Gabby Krpata possesses quite an extensive vocabulary for a 15-month-old.
Posted @ 9:21 AM
Can we please be quiet for just one minute?
I saw a highway billboard recently that summed up a prevailing attitude: "Silence is weird." The product for sale? Cell phones. The ad campaign's bias was understandable, but it prompted me to reflect on how pervasive unbidden noise has become in our society. Loudness trumps quiet wherever people live, work, study, play, and even sleep.
Posted @ 9:16 AM
League in Oakland Park aids those with hearing loss
Born with hearing loss, Evan Goldman knows that someday things will be better for children born with such problems.
Posted @ 9:14 AM
April 15, 2005
Starkey Lab's 'Santa Claus' fixes broken ears
Thursday must have been a pretty odd day for Rebecca Lanier. Of course, at 113 years old, each day is a kind of gift. But on this particular day, the Cleveland-area resident was met at hearing instrument giant Starkey Laboratories in Eden Prairie by a phalanx of reporters, photographers and TV cameramen. They clicked, jotted and stared at her.
Posted @ 11:12 AM
The wonderful gift of sound-I
It’s come as a boon for people with severe hearing loss. One cannot help but marvel at the technology behind cochlear implants, says Bharati Prabhu.
Posted @ 10:18 AM
April 14, 2005
Hearing Loss: A Preventable Problem
After years of Grateful Dead concerts and providing medical care to attendees at loud rock performances, Dr. Flash Gordon discovered he was missing out on sounds that most people take for granted.
Posted @ 10:15 AM
Buzzing in your ears: Muse to blast through College Park
Anyone who's been to a live Muse show knows the sensation - the second encore is over, the band walks off stage and all of a sudden your ears are filled with a persistent, near-deafening ring.
Posted @ 10:13 AM
April 13, 2005
A miracle and a mystery
It was too soon for Marja Laina Cassidy to be born, but doctors couldn't keep her away. She came in the 23rd week of her mother's pregnancy, weighing 1 pound, 7 ounces, and the systems in her tiny body weren't ready.
Posted @ 1:01 AM
April 12, 2005
Wearable captioning system to make public venues accessible
A wearable captioning system developed at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and recently licensed by the Georgia Tech Research Corporation may make more public venues accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Posted @ 5:02 PM
Some UTSA pay phones removed due to low usagedue to low usage
Communications, the company that provides UTSA pay phones, is removing some of the devices because of low usage.
Posted @ 3:20 PM
April 11, 2005
Ear bionics may help quadriplegics move
Researchers who invented the bionic ear are now working on similar technology to treat epilepsy and help paraplegics and quadriplegics recover movement and feeling.
Posted @ 4:15 PM
Mick Fleetwood promotes turning down the volume
Rock-n-roll musician Mick Fleetwood is starting a campaign today to turn down the volume.
Posted @ 4:02 PM
April 10, 2005
National noise epidemic calls for soundproofing
Without soundproofing, peace and quiet is almost impossible to achieve. The US Census Bureau estimates a population rise of 5% by 2010, which is a major contributor to the noise problem. Additionally, air traffic is expected to grow 4.3% annually through 2015 and automobile ownership is projected to grow over 15% by 2010 in some areas.
Posted @ 10:58 PM
April 9, 2005
Banker breaks through the barriers of deafness
It's a slow day at the downtown Wachovia Center. The tellers have few customers and the streets of Tampa are clear of pedestrians. It must be the rain, says Davelis "D.C." Goutoufas, the center's manager.
Posted @ 1:56 PM
Putting hearing loss under the microscope
Millions of Australians suffer from hearing loss. If it's a problem of the inner ear or nerve it can only be treated with a hearing aid.
Posted @ 1:52 PM
April 8, 2005
New hearing aids cut through the noise
Many people who need hearing aids have given up on trying to find one that works, but you may want to give hearing aids another chance. New technology may be worth listening to.
Posted @ 1:59 AM
Health Tip: Ringing in the ears
Many people experience tinnitus (ringing in the ears) temporarily or intermittently, but some suffer from it all the time.
Posted @ 1:57 AM
State looking to help those with hearing loss
The state of Minnesota wants to know if residents can hear. Do you or someone you know have trouble hearing the phone ring, hearing the conversation on the phone, holding a handset, dialing out, or having your voice heard on the phone?
Posted @ 1:52 AM
Farming is a noisy business
Research indicates that farmers experience greater hearing loss than do people in other occupations. In fact, a recent screening of more than 300 New York farmers found 77 percent with hearing loss, according to the New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health.
Posted @ 1:51 AM
April 7, 2005
Sonic Innovations introduces premium digital hearing aid line
Sonic Innovations, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNCI - News), a leading producer of advanced digital hearing aids, today announced the release of its Innova product family. Innova is the Company's next generation of high-end digital hearing aid technology offering unmatched hearing aid consumer benefits and features. Innova launched last week at the American Academy of Audiology Convention in Washington, D.C.
Posted @ 1:04 AM
New test quickly catches hearing loss In children
If hearing loss is not diagnosed early enough, it can cause speech and language problems later on in life. Now, doctors have a new test to catch hearing loss in children sooner.
Posted @ 1:00 AM
April 6, 2005
Proposed bill screens newborns for hearing loss
State officials say as many as 30 babies in Alaska are born with hearing loss each year. Most agree it’s important to determine this early. That's why supporters of a new bill want state lawmakers to hear them out.
Posted @ 7:50 PM
A signing star: Lakeland junior honored by WAVY news
Last September, Lakeland High sign language instructor Anita Fisher reached into her school mailbox and took out a form from WAVY TV-10 News.
Posted @ 3:24 PM
The future of cochlear implants
Researchers presenting at the 25th annual meeting of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery in Orlando, Fla., say optical radiation is able to stimulate hearing function without the limitations of the traditional electrical stimulation.
Posted @ 2:11 AM
April 5, 2005
First his hearing, now his sight, Jacob, 6, carries on by faith
"You don’t need ears to hear God," Kristina Seymour said of the miracles she and her husband had experienced through their son Jacob.
Posted @ 5:22 PM
April 4, 2005
Underestimating hearing loss from loud music
Many of those surveyed already have had signs of hearing damage, such as ringing in the ears, after attending a concert or socializing at a nightclub.
Posted @ 8:23 PM
Student overcomes personal challenges with love of music
Until four years ago, Alvaro Trujillo had never heard a sound. In fourth grade he got a cochlear implant that allowed him to hear.
Posted @ 2:35 PM
Surgery puts pair on speaking terms
Talk about a communication gap: Gope Mirchandani couldn't speak. His wife Kamala couldn't hear. Now the San Jose couple can do both.
Posted @ 2:32 PM
Loud music no threat say teens
Most teenagers and young adults don't think hearing loss from listening to loud music is a big problem, even though three out of five have had ringing in their ears after concerts, according to a study.
Posted @ 12:35 AM
Signs of justice
The hearing impaired population cuts across educational and income-groupings and, like all citizens, must enjoy the same privileges in court proceedings and not be made to feel they are in any way prejudiced by the justice system.
Posted @ 12:29 AM
April 3, 2005
Ear tubes and speech
Q: At my son's two-year check up, the pediatrician noticed that my son is not talking much. He recommended putting tubes in his ears to help him hear better. I think he hears just fine, and I don't know why tubes would make him talk more.
Posted @ 3:39 PM
Signs and wonders
Silence has never been so sweet as parents learn a more effective way to communicate with their crying and tantrum-throwing toddlers, without having to say a word.
Posted @ 3:27 AM
A high-tech day in the life of a deaf student
From the moment her alarm shakes her from slumber every school day, Michelle Gerson is wired. Or, more accurately, wireless.
Posted @ 3:23 AM
April 2, 2005
Caring Jade's actions speak louder than words
Inspirational Jade Costello has won a national award for the help she gave to a deaf teenager.
Posted @ 1:15 AM
April 1, 2005
Partially deaf firefighter sues Lodi
A Lodi firefighter who lost hearing in one ear -- and nearly his job -- has filed a discrimination lawsuit in federal court against the city.
Posted @ 9:23 AM