Grateful

Thanksgiving is a time to reflect how we are so filled with gratitude. All of us at Hearing Health Foundation—scientists, Board of Directors, advisers, volunteers, and staff—extend our sincerest thanks to you.

Because of your support, we are able to press on with our mission to prevent, research, and cure hearing loss, tinnitus, and related hearing and balance conditions. Along with Sarah (shown with her family)—and the millions who live with hearing and balance conditions—we want you to know how much you are tremendously appreciated this Thanksgiving.

We wish you and your loved ones a safe, happy, and healthy holiday.

Warmly,

Timothy Higdon
President & CEO
Hearing Health Foundation

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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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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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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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