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July 30, 2005
Stick it in your ear
If you wear a hearing aid, are you a cyborg? How about if you wear hearing augmentation gear, even though your hearing is otherwise fine?
Posted @ 12:52 AM
New tool makes hearing tests simpler
Ten percent of the U.S. population suffers from hearing loss. But only a few are actually diagnosed and treated. New technology is now allowing family doctors to get a jump on a diagnosis.
Posted @ 12:49 AM
Mobiles could turn college kids deaf
Purdue University audiologists have found that cell phones or portable digital music devices could lead to hearing loss among college-bound adults.
Posted @ 12:47 AM
New Signers Program kicks off at Gallaudet University
Going off to college can be stressful all by itself without adding learning a new language to the process. Gallaudet University offers a free crash course on ASL for all new students who possess little or no skill in signing.
Posted @ 12:46 AM
July 29, 2005
Hereditary deafness prevented in mice
A type of hereditary deafness has been cured in mice by silencing a gene that causes hearing loss.
Posted @ 10:58 AM
Old ears on young bodies may affect college students' learning
Parents packing their college-bound sons and daughters a new cell phone or portable digital music device may not realize these devices are one reason why more young adults are walking around today with old ears on their young bodies, says a Purdue University audiologist.
Posted @ 12:30 AM
Possibility of treatment for permanent hearing loss
Researchers from University of Iowa and Okayama University, Japan, have reported a possible cure for a kind of permanent hearing loss from parallel studies with animals.
Posted @ 12:26 AM
New implant being used at Driscoll Childrens Hospital
A 9-year-old girl from the Valley visited Driscoll Childrens Hospital Wednesday where she was able to hear sound for the first time, thanks to a new cochlear implant.
Posted @ 12:24 AM
July 27, 2005
Study: Disabled actors not represented in films, TV shows
Actors with disabilities are underrepresented in movies and TV shows and are reluctant to ask producers for even minor accommodations, according to a study commissioned by the Screen Actors Guild.
Posted @ 10:16 AM
Hearing-impaired kids have wild time
Forty children struggled to sit still while shouting "Hello!" during their day camp's visit from four of the Wildlife Association's rescued animals.
Posted @ 10:12 AM
Turn the volume down, please!
The music was loud, or at least loud enough for me to make out an occasional word and, of course, a very heavy backbeat, complete with screeching electric guitars and a rocking chorus. Oddly, I still couldn't make out the song.
Posted @ 10:03 AM
Specialised care for the deaf
Looking after the elderly can be quite an exhausting task, especially if the person is deaf. It can be more challenging if they suffer from another condition as well, such as Alzheimer’s disease.
Posted @ 9:54 AM
New vocabulary being developed for sign language in Namibia
A team of teachers in the North is developing an expanded vocabulary for Namibian sign language to allow deaf children to learn science. The Eluwa Sign Language Project was launched at the Eluwa Special School for deaf and hearing-impaired children at Ongwediva recently.
Posted @ 9:15 AM
Centre breaks sound barriers
Walking into the Hear and Say Centre at Auchenflower yesterday, little Ruby Hughes asked, and was told, the name of the fish on the front counter.
Posted @ 9:00 AM
Gallaudet President I. King Jordan receives George Bush Medal
Dr. I. King Jordan, president of Gallaudet University, recently received the George Bush Medal for the Empowerment of People with Disabilities.
Posted @ 12:27 AM
July 26, 2005
Deaf golfer ready to roll
Kevin Hall, the deaf golfer who made his PGA Tour debut at the US Bank Championship, would love another sponsor exemption but says he won't be needing such passes some day.
Posted @ 12:45 PM
Signing can help break through the baby talk
Exeter parents Tracy and Luke have been teaching their 18-month-old daughter Grace "signs" to communicate since she was about 5 months old.
Posted @ 12:42 PM
Studies on hearing loss discovers new causes
New researches identify two causes that can cause hearing loss in people apart from the all other existing causes, greying hereditary syndrome and type 1 diabetes. The researches are featured in the July edition of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery.
Posted @ 12:29 PM
Claims deaf travellers are getting raw deal
Deaf public transport users are not getting a fair deal according to a new survey.
Posted @ 12:25 PM
Types of hearing aids
Hearing aids are better than ever. Many hearing-impaired people would benefit from using them, but only one out of five, who need hearing aids, actually have one.
Posted @ 1:11 AM
Young Scholar's Program targets national youth
A crime has been committed in the nation’s capital. Don’t worry, CSI: Gallaudet is on the case.
Posted @ 1:10 AM
July 25, 2005
'iPods could make you hallucinate'
Listening to an iPod could leave you with psychological problems, an expert warns. He says exposure to music is causing more cases of musical hallucination, where a song "plays" constantly in the head.
Posted @ 12:46 PM
Quinine can cause tinnitus
I have just developed a hissing sound in my ears. The onset was very rapid. The doctor diagnosed it as tinnitus, but would give me no reason for the problem. He said there wasn't anything I could do. I've noticed that some days it is less disturbing than others, but some nights it awakens me because it has become so loud.
Posted @ 12:44 PM
The hands of babes
What if your toddler could talk with his hands long before he could form words with his mouth? Research shows that you can teach your child a sign language vocabulary before speech is possible.
Posted @ 12:41 PM
Implant could restore hearing to the deaf
A new implant is being developed by scientists that could restore the hearing of millions of deaf people. The revolutionary technology called SMARTFIT aims to mimic physiological hearing functions for the first time by producing replicas of the tiny bones in the middle ear.
Posted @ 12:32 PM
Child no longer deaf to the world
Ten years ago Charmane Howard watched a documentary on the Discovery Channel about a deaf boy and his ear implant that always stuck with her.
Posted @ 12:30 PM
Call for 'designer' hearing aids
The UK's largest charity for deaf people and a design magazine are launching an exhibition of futuristic hearing aids to make them more popular.
Posted @ 12:20 PM
July 24, 2005
Class taps into trend toward teaching babies sign language
The 1-year-old fussed through most of Duchini's baby sign language class at the Saint Vincent Women's Center, ignoring her efforts to teach him the signs for cow, bunny and dog. He cried for his bottle and played with a Fisher-Price barn.
Posted @ 12:38 PM
Camp helps area hearing-impaired children
Michael Goldbeck is a fairly typical 8-year-old. The Clegern Elementary School third-grader likes to swim, visit interesting places like the Omniplex and he occasionally gets into trouble at home.
Posted @ 12:18 PM
Using sign language, UMass professor easily connects deaf students with geology
Sweeping her hands and fingers through the air, Michele Cooke explains how to make geological measurements.
Posted @ 12:14 PM
July 23, 2005
Deaf kids tune in to celebrity
As a finalist on ABC's The Bachelorette earlier this year, millions of people saw Jerry Ferris ultimately rejected on national television.
Posted @ 11:09 AM
The sound of deafness
Like many Asian Pacific Americans, Wendy Cheng loves classical European music. This Taiwan-born Maryland resident studied classical piano from age 7 to 15. In college, she started learning violin, and has participated in string quartets and string and full orchestra workshops.
Posted @ 11:02 AM
Providing a means to hear
While pregnant, Sarah Garrett had a fleeting uneasiness that her unborn son might have a hearing impairment.
Posted @ 10:56 AM
July 22, 2005
Rounds weighs in on plan for sign-language town
Individual development projects such as a sign-language town proposed near Salem should not referred to a vote of the public, Gov. Mike Rounds said Wednesday.
Posted @ 8:36 AM
Lake men on medical mission help poor villagers hear better
Today a young girl in Cambodia can hear because of the work of two Lake County men. She was one of more than 1,000 villagers treated by Dr. Jon Anderson and hearing-aid specialist Joe Crogan.
Posted @ 8:24 AM
Musicians should protect ears
Musicians want to hear their music, but they don't want the very same music they create to gradually deafen them over time.
Posted @ 8:21 AM
Leadership changes hands at deaf and hard of hearing services of Lancaster
A Lancaster native and Franklin & Marshall College graduate has taken over the leadership role at Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services of Lancaster County.
Posted @ 8:20 AM
July 21, 2005
New rules will make more cellphones available to hearing-aid users
Hearing-aid users who’ve had trouble using cellphones because of electrical interference are about to get a break.
Posted @ 1:07 AM
Deaf school scales back busing, leaving some families in a bind
Jamie Johnson understands why the school her daughter attends can't continue its liberal policy of transporting students from almost anywhere in North Texas to the Arlington campus.
Posted @ 1:00 AM
Kids' ear candles are a real talking point
An alternative therapies clinic has expanded its programme after so many parents wanted their children to benefit.
Posted @ 12:59 AM
Internet sales of hearing aids up; but think twice
With the cost of a custom hearing aid ranging as high as $2,000, many people are going online to shop for cheaper alternatives. Hearing aids and similar devices sold on the Internet typically cost hundreds of dollars less than those sold through professionals that offer custom service.
Posted @ 12:57 AM
Computer implants aid hearing, walking
When it comes to relying on technology for help completing everyday tasks, most people depend on the kind they can leave behind.
Posted @ 12:48 AM
July 19, 2005
Traffic cops face hearing loss
Even as the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that there should be no vehicular honking or sound amplifiers at night, comes an alarming study on traffic constables in Hyderabad.
Posted @ 1:05 PM
Noisy environment may affect children's grasp of language
Every Wednesday afternoon, 2-year-old Kelsea Knowlton visits Monique Conner, a pediatric speech-language pathologist at Memorial Hospital in South Bend.
Posted @ 1:04 PM
Hearing impaired have new way of conversing by phone
Danny Barrett has been involved with the telephone business almost his entire life. He also hasn't heard one word over a headset since he was born.
Posted @ 10:12 AM
Sign language helps teach children to talk
Most people associate sign language with the hearing impaired. But it's also a great way to communicate with infants and toddlers who are just learning to talk.
Posted @ 10:10 AM
Teen undeterred from his dream
Austin Allred, a 15-year-old Richmond resident, is a determined young man. Allred, who has wanted to be a children's doctor since his preschool days, left last week to attend a Summer Medical Academy being held July 11 - 22 at Children's Hospital Oakland.
Posted @ 10:03 AM
July 18, 2005
Briscoe debuts latest novel since surgery restored her hearing
A popular and prolific writer, Ellicott City's Connie Briscoe has published five novels since 1995. She was profoundly deaf when she wrote her first four.
Posted @ 10:03 AM
The Baby Einstein Company partners with Marlee Matlin
The Baby Einstein Company, parents' number one choice for infant videos, announces the release of Baby Wordsworth(TM), an innovative new title created to expose children to first words and the idea that communication can take various forms.
Posted @ 10:01 AM
Deaf-mute unfit for trial?
Oswaldo Martinez's disabilities may save his life. In February the illegal immigrant from El Salvador was charged with raping and killing a 16-year-old James City County girl.
Posted @ 10:00 AM
Learning ways to communicate
A multi-sensory extravaganza is helping improve the health of babies across the region. Craig Thompson finds out how a group in Blyth is helping keep children's minds active.
Posted @ 9:58 AM
Grand Opening of Lindenhurst Hearing Center
Lindenhurst, NY -- Area residents will now be able to hear better now that the Lindenhurst Hearing Center has opened its doors in Lindenhurst.
Posted @ 9:56 AM
Sonomax Signs International press release
Sonomax Hearing Healthcare Inc. is pleased to announce that it has concluded an international licensing agreement for its revolutionary hearing protection system, the Sonomax Solution(R), for the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Posted @ 9:55 AM
July 17, 2005
Vardon family on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
"Vardon Family, Parts 1 & 2" - When Stefan Vardon, 14, wrote a heartwarming school essay about his deaf parents and his blind and autistic 12-year-old brother, he had no idea that it would lead to the team from "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" showing up at his family's Oak Park, Michigan home.
Posted @ 8:10 AM
The miraculous gift of hearing
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia celebrates the 10th anniversary of its cochlear implant programme this year. StarEducation learns how the implant works and what a difference it has made to those with hearing loss. KAREN CHAPMAN reports.
Posted @ 7:57 AM
Oregon deaf and hard-of-hearing services ensured
The Oregon House today voted to create the Oregon Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Services program within the Department of Human Services. The bill also preserves the Oregon Disabilities Commission (ODC) by approving the transfer of the commission into the Department of Human Services. The move could create a nominal budget savings that will be used to maintain services.
Posted @ 7:50 AM
July 16, 2005
Harleton High School graduate earns national award
Great accomplishments in life can bloom from seemingly difficult odds, one local young woman has proved. Brooke Gatlin is deaf. She hears with the assistance of a cochlear implant.
Posted @ 10:59 AM
Device helps 12-year-old hear clearly for first time
It was an emotional moment for Jeanie Reinthaler Friday when a sound processor attached to her head allowed her to hear clearly for the first time in her life.
Posted @ 10:55 AM
Kansas infants are tested for hearing and diseases within days of birth
For 40 years, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment has been screening babies born in Kansas.
Posted @ 10:53 AM
Cowboy from Ranger wants 'to win it all'
Clint Thomas is far more than a human interest story. Let there be no mistake, his story sparks plenty of interest — maybe more than any story at this week’s International Finals Youth Rodeo.
Posted @ 12:34 AM
Swimmer's Ear: A common summer problem
It's that time of year when North Shore residents flock to their favorite swimming spots to beat the summer heat. Unfortunately, it is also the time when a hospital emergency room is busy treating a painful ear infection called "swimmer's ear."
Posted @ 12:33 AM
Smoke detectors for deaf installed in home
A deaf couple with three small children who waited three years to get smoke detectors for the hearing-impaired installed in their apartment received the devices yesterday, officials said.
Posted @ 12:32 AM
July 15, 2005
Suffering in silence after horror
As I write this, the number of confirmed deaths from the tube and bus bombings has been put at 52. There are no reports of any deaf person being involved, but a BDA staff member in Belfast was very relieved to hear that her husband was able to walk away uninjured after travelling through one of the same London stations.
Posted @ 8:31 AM
Untreated hearing loss accounts for at least $100 billion in lost income
1 out of 6 baby boomers and 1 out of 14 "Generation Xers" have hearing problems, but most don't seek treatment. More than 31.5 Americans find it difficult to hear without a hearing aid, an increase of 9.9% since 2000, according to a new survey by the Better Hearing Institute (BHI) that will be published in the Hearing Review on July 17th. BHI researchers also documented that untreated hearing loss has a tremendously negative effect on individual incomes.
Posted @ 1:55 AM
The sound of freedom
For a mother, there is nothing like listening to the babbling of her child. But what if the child is hearing and speech impaired. With advances in technology, these problems can easily be overcome.
Posted @ 1:54 AM
Deaf school campers go missing for several hours
Two teenage campers from the Aspen Camp School for the Deaf who went missing Thursday morning in the Capitol Creek wilderness were found unharmed several hours later.
Posted @ 1:50 AM
Sorenson Communications supports and is in full compliance with FCC's new VRS rulings
Sorenson Communications(TM), the leading provider of video relay services (VRS) and equipment for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, today expressed its support of recent rulings from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on several significant VRS regulatory issues, and announced that the company is already in full compliance with all FCC rulings and policies.
Posted @ 1:45 AM
July 14, 2005
No apple for this teacher
In a reversal of roles, a high school senior has made a huge and lasting difference in her teacher's life, The Early Show national correspondent Hattie Kauffman reports.
Posted @ 11:37 AM
Family awaits smoke detector for deaf
It took Veronica and Richard Sonnenberg, a deaf couple with three small children who moved into Deans Apartments nearly three years ago, that long to get a smoke detector for the hearing-impaired installed in their home.
Posted @ 11:34 AM
Parents understand better the hearing loss problem in children if counseled
Equipping parents with sound advice may help them identify hearing loss problems in children, which otherwise may remain undiagnosed and therefore untreated.
Posted @ 11:32 AM
Police resources short for special needs families
After a 9-year-old Minneapolis boy reported missing was found safe, questions were raised about the resources the Minneapolis police had available for the hearing impaired.
Posted @ 1:18 AM
'Listen and speak up' helps preschoolers with hearing impairments
Preschoolers can be enthusiastic learners, and it's no different for the 2- to 5-year-olds in the "Listen and Speak Up" program at the University of Iowa Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Clinic.
Posted @ 1:16 AM
July 13, 2005
Tiny talking hands: kids learn sign language
Some of us use our hands when we talk, but usually it's unintentional. Now, one woman in Ardmore is teaching youngsters how to use their hands to talk, by holding a sign-language summer reading program. KTEN's Chelsea Hover has details.
Posted @ 8:35 AM
Free guide helps parents address hearing loss in children
Hearing loss in more than a million American children is undetected or untreated, according to the Better Hearing Institute (BHI).
Posted @ 8:32 AM
New hearing aid loan program based in Charlottesville
It's called the Virginia Hearing Aid Loan Bank, the first of its kind in the state, and it's based right here in Charlottesville.
Posted @ 8:30 AM
Special needs education: deafness is not hopeless
The society for the welfare of the deaf, created in 1968, runs a school for deaf children. The main centre of the school is situated in Beau-Bassin. Two more units exist: the Doorgachum Government School in Goodlands, and the Southern Handicapped Association in Riambel.
Posted @ 8:20 AM
July 12, 2005
Grandmother saves deaf family members from fire
In the charred remains of her daughter's house on Azalea Drive, Mary Trapp shuddered Monday to think what could have happened to her child and grandson if she had not been there when flames began racing through the residence.
Posted @ 8:24 AM
Man born deaf surpasses limits
Envision a world void of sound - no chirping birds, or the splash of rain drops on the windowpane, or the wind rustling through the trees.
Posted @ 8:16 AM
Doctors say London bombing victim's hearing 'saved by his Apple iPod earphones'
Tad Grglewiecz, a 52-year old civil engineer from Cricklewood, North London survived the recent London terrorist bombings.
Posted @ 8:14 AM
Gallaudet to re-start program in 2007
Gallaudet, which last fielded a varsity football program in 1979, has named Calvert High's Ed Hottle its new coach and outlined a plan to return to varsity status at the Division III level by the 2007 season.
Posted @ 8:10 AM
PA Relay helps deaf, hard of hearing and speech disabled
Dialing 7-1-1 improves communication between the hearing those with hearing disablities.
Posted @ 8:09 AM
July 11, 2005
Listen: iPods can damage your ears
Jeff Hurst, 24, and Gianni Lee, 19, love their music so much they listen to it on their iPods for hours - maybe too many hours.
Posted @ 8:05 AM
How loud is loud?
How loud is loud? Reading the recent South Florida Sun-Sentinel article on car stereo shops installing auto speaker systems raises questions of the hazards and nuisance of noise.
Posted @ 8:04 AM
County receives interpreter grant
Grant County has received $2,000 in grant money from the Indiana Supreme Court to help pay for interpreters for people who don't speak English.
Posted @ 12:05 AM
Westerly boy hears again, thanks to ear implant
Four-year-old Peyton had the sense of hearing when he was born and also as he began walking and talking. He had just turned three in mid-October when his parents, Angela and Bob Jones, noticed he had stopped saying a few familiar words. The little boy did not respond when they spoke to him.
Posted @ 12:02 AM
July 10, 2005
Hearing aid loans available for babies
A new state program will speed the delivery of hearing aids to babies and toddlers whose families cannot pay for the devices immediately.
Posted @ 12:12 PM
Right to hear for the hearing impaired
Hyderabad -- The State Government is planning to set up a Right to Hearing Society to aid those who have hearing disabilities.
Posted @ 12:09 PM
'Gift of sound' feted by Baystate
Some four dozen people, thankful hearing-loss patients and their families, celebrated "the gift of sound" at the second annual reunion of cochlear implant patients yesterday at Baystate Medical Center's Chestnut Conference Center.
Posted @ 12:07 PM
Cochlear implantation on five kids
The Government Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Hospital here will conduct cochlear implantation on five children during the next two days.
Posted @ 12:07 AM
A new chapter
A popular and prolific writer, Ellicott City's Connie Briscoe has published five novels since 1995. Yet she was profoundly deaf when she wrote her first four.
Posted @ 12:05 AM
July 9, 2005
Long road to Yale woman flourishes despite being deaf
In August of 1986, pediatrician Richard Adams dangled two sets of car keys in front of 4-month-old Campbell "Cami" Elizabeth Garland.
Posted @ 2:25 AM
Lions develop hearing aid for low-income people
Responding to a worldwide problem, the Lions Affordable Hearing Project (AHAP) has developed a low-cost, high-quality hearing aid.
Posted @ 2:24 AM
Harris is first KSD student to study abroad
Jennifer Harris will become the first student from Kentucky School for the Deaf to study abroad in September. She will move to Stockholm, Sweden, where she will live with a Swedish family and attend school for the year.
Posted @ 2:23 AM
VDH program loans hearing aids to children
Children in Virginia who are facing delays in getting permanent hearing aids no longer have to wait. They can now borrow them from the Virginia Department of Health's Hearing Aid Loan Bank.
Posted @ 2:22 AM
New restaurant for deaf and dumb in Italy
Starting next week the Italian capital will have its first restaurant for the deaf and dumb, who number some 4,500 in the city.
Posted @ 2:10 AM
July 8, 2005
Baby sign language
Parents, how would you like to stop your baby's crying fits and temper tantrums. Some East Texas women say they know how to do it.
Posted @ 1:53 AM
Jabra introduces hearing aid compatible headset
Jabra, a leading brand of hands-free communication products for the mobile consumer market, announces the Jabra C650, its latest corded headset for mobile phones. Designed for hearing aid compatibility and use in multiple wearing styles, Jabra's new mobile headset is ideal for anyone in the office or on-the-move.
Posted @ 1:50 AM
Surgeon's knife brings music to deaf ballerina
A young ballerina who dances yet has never heard music or anything else since birth, may soon overcome the disability thanks to surgery being done in a local hospital.
Posted @ 1:47 AM
Beautiful noise
A symphony exploded inside Beth Spencer's head Wednesday as the 28-year-old heard sounds missed since she was a teen.
Posted @ 1:44 AM
July 6, 2005
GoAmerica and Hands On to combine in merger
GoAmerica, Inc. (Nasdaq: GOAM - News), a leading provider of wireless and Internet relay communications services for the deaf and hard-of-hearing market, and Hands On, a leading provider of video relay and interpreter services for the deaf and hard-of-hearing market, today announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement.
Posted @ 1:47 PM
Deaf 'missing out' on health care
People with hearing difficulties in Northern Ireland are missing out on health care, it has been claimed.
Posted @ 1:45 PM
Student helps Nigeria with hearing services
Traveling to Nigeria to set up the country?s first audiology center isn?t a far reach for CMU doctoral student Irene Okeke.
Posted @ 1:36 PM
Something fishy about sound
Cornell University researchers studying the auditory system of the plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus) say they have found a direct line of communication between the part of a vertebrate's brain that controls the vocal muscle system and the part of the ear that hears sound.
Posted @ 1:33 PM
July 1, 2005
Hearing aids much improved over last few years
The most common solution to hearing loss is still the hearing aid, but it has improved a lot over the years.
Posted @ 12:52 AM
Bowling 'em over!
The First GCC Bowling Championship for the Hearing Impaired is being organised by Bahrain Disabled Sports Federation (BDSF) and co-ordinated by Phoenix Creations. The event, which continues until July 8, is the 29th sporting event being conducted by the GCC Organising Committee (GCCOC) for the Sports of the Disabled.
Posted @ 12:50 AM
Patricia Denner Cayne joins Sonomax Hearing Healthcare, Inc.
Sonomax Hearing Healthcare Inc.(TSX VENTURE:SHH) is proud to announce the appointment of Patricia Denner Cayne, PhD to the company's newly formed Board of Advisors.
Posted @ 12:15 AM