auditory rehabilitation

Play a Game of Catch This Thanksgiving (for Good Communication)

Successful communication can be compared to playing a game of catch. In a communication exchange there is a sender of the message (the speaker) and a receiver of the message (the listener). In a game of catch, there is a thrower and a catcher. Both the thrower and the catcher are required to work together to make the game thrive.

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Train Your Brain to Listen

One of the most important things a person with hearing loss can do is to develop listening strategies. Auditory training, or auditory rehabilitation, is essentially a formal program for teaching the brain to recognize speech and other sounds that may not be as clear as they are with typical hearing.

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Webinar Recap: New Developments in Treating Hearing Loss and Related Conditions: Digital Therapeutics

This presented focused on rehabilitation, to show how digital therapeutics can help people with hearing loss improve word discrimination, familiarity with everyday words, listening confidence, and auditory cognitive skills, including auditory processing speed, auditory word memory, and auditory attention

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Join the Next Hearing Health Hour Webinar: Digital Therapeutics

In her January 5 webinar, Tye-Murray will address that hearing loss challenges don’t stop at the ears. Related conditions, or co-morbidities, of hearing loss include social isolation and loneliness, depression, increased risk of falls, and cognitive decline and related dementias.

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Recap: Hearing Health Hour Webinar Kickoff

On October 26, Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) hosted “Age-Related Hearing Loss: Problems and Solutions” on Zoom, the first installment of our new Hearing Health Hour webinar series. Hearing Health Hour webinars bring HHF supporters the latest developments in hearing and balance research through the voices of our Emerging Research Grants (ERG) alum community. All sessions include an interactive Q&A with the speaker.

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Making Sense of Sound

Valeriy Shafiro conducts research in hearing and speech perception that focuses on finding new ways to diagnose auditory deficits and improve communication abilities in adults.

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