Age-Related Hearing Loss Limits Cue Use in Noise

Our results demonstrate that age-related changes in use of acoustic cues may begin in middle age.

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When Hearing Support Becomes Part of Your Personal Style

Sponsored content: Created for women and men who care about personal style, H·earrings Cuffs combine hearing technology with the look and feel of a contemporary accessory.

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Hearing Loss Doesn’t Define Me

I don’t always think my teammates understand that I have hearing loss. It’s because hearing loss is invisible. But I live with it every moment.

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How Does Sound Hurt?

This control experiment shows that the hearing organ must be intact for sound to produce pain-related behavior. This may seem obvious, but it’s important to understand that the pain you experience does not come only from your eardrum or outer ear.

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A Poem About Living With Hearing Loss Since Birth

Partial silence/Hours in thought and talk/My dog listened and understood/Time in hours on the old back porch/I was in my own safe, social world.

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What the First Month After Cochlear Implant Activation Can Tell Us 

Patients who started with low wear time and increased it by six months did just as well at one year as those who wore their processor consistently from the start. Patients whose use declined did measurably worse. A slow start is not a verdict.

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Hearing Aids Cost Thousands. A State Program Helped Me Pay for Them.

What changed things was a program almost nobody talks about: state vocational rehabilitation. Every state has a version of this department, just under a different name. The idea behind all of them is the same: If a disability is standing between you and a job, the state will help remove it. Hearing loss counts. Hearing aids count.

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Measuring Attention When Listening in Noise

Overall our findings suggest that differences in speech-in-noise ability may reflect a combination of early auditory processing, attention, and how strongly the brain represents target speech compared with background noise. 

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The Ear Is Self-Cleaning

Cerumen (earwax) moves like a conveyor belt, removing the debris laterally and outward toward the opening of the ear canal where it flakes off. 

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Saying Yes to Hearing Better

Stigma, cost, access. Three people I loved, three different barriers.

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