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Blog — Hearing Health Foundation

Our hearts go out to LA residents coping with the wildfires. Here is a resource for those with hearing loss, from an HHF friend in LA.

Awareness

Americans With Hearing Loss Can Receive Free Telephone Captioning Services

Phone conversations can be exhausting and frustrating for individuals with hearing loss. Telephones render the communicators unable to see each other when talking, so they can’t take advantage of important visual cues, including knowing when it’s their turn to talk.

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HHF Applauds Singer-Songwriter KT Tunstall for Putting Hearing Health First, As She Cancels Summer Concerts to Care for Her Damaged Hearing

News that singer-songwriter KT Tunstall has put her summer concert dates on hold due to worsening hearing problems is another reminder that all of us—not just musicians—must heed warnings and protect our ears from damaging loud noise.

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9 Things to Know About Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL)

Noise-induced hearing loss is probably the biggest global public health emergency you’ve never heard of. The World Health Organization (WHO) says 1 of every 5 U.S. teens (ages 12–19) has a measurable hearing loss likely from loud noise.

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Protecting Your Hearing Is Actually NOT That Hard

You may have noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) and not even realize it. By taking steps to prevent NIHL—which is easy once you know what to do—you can protect yourself from linked health consequences into the future.

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Air Horns, Megaphones, Drills, Grenades Exploding in Your Ears: This Powerful HHF Ad Campaign Shows What Loud Volumes Can Do to Your Hearing

Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) is delivering an urgent message to young people about preventing hearing loss with powerful ads online and in major cities. Through the Keep Listening campaign, we’re encouraging people ages 16-35 to take simple precautions to protect themselves from noise-induced hearing loss.

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From a $3.95 Guitar to the Solid Body Electric Guitar: How Les Paul’s Persistence Changed the World of Music

Music legend Les Paul is famous for inventing the solid body electric guitar and other innovations related to recording music. Less known is that he also had a hearing loss and wore hearing aids in both ears.

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What Works for Me: Revelations From Seeking Help for Chronic Tinnitus

The hearing loss and tinnitus that resulted from my service have stayed with me, making me part of the two million Americans with debilitating tinnitus, and the 20 million with chronic tinnitus. Seeking help, I turned myself into a human guinea pig. Here’s what I learned.

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Why Are (Some) Sports So Noisy?

My friends and I were at a college basketball game, hollering and stomping on the bleachers. The shouting and pounding merged us into a single, vibrating, noise envelope of our own making, and we loved every decibel of it. That was long before I paid much attention to noise, or started losing my hearing.

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The USPSTF Sticks to Its Recommendation: No Hearing Screenings for Older Adults

As in its draft recommendation released a few months earlier (which I wrote about), the USPSTF “concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for hearing in older adults.”

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How Far We've Come: Opportunities for Children With Hearing Loss Then and Now

Pioneering educators in the 1970s and 1980s created a new vision for infants and toddlers with hearing loss, emphasizing early identification and family training—revolutionary ideas then, best practices now.

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