The deaf–hearing couples who are happy tend to have higher levels of tolerance for differences. They are more open to unconventional ways of coping, communicating, and problem solving.
How to Advocate for Your Health With Providers
These experiences highlight the need for patients, especially women, to advocate for accurate diagnoses.
Healthy Hearing Starts at Home
Even with this elevated awareness about the harm from excess noise, sometimes it’s hard to get this message to stick at home. Here is how I helped steer my kids, who are now teenagers, steer toward healthy hearing habits.
Help Childen With Hearing Loss Be Camp-Ready
Alongside the typical checklist for camp preparations, such as bug spray and sunscreen, consider preparing for scenarios where your child may need to speak up about communication needs and otherwise self-advocate so they can fully participate.
Shouting From the Rooftops
Tackling the Health Risks of Social Isolation
“Lacking social connection is as dangerous as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day,” according to a U.S. Surgeon General report.
Gene Therapy for Hearing Loss: Interpreting Preliminary Clinical Trial Results
Our independent analysis of the clinical trials’ published data yields the following insights on gene therapy for hearing loss from otoferlin variants. The clinical trials provide the first validation of pharmacological treatments for hearing loss.
Auracast Update
Because Auracast is part of Bluetooth, there's no extra tech needed to include it in a product. That said, since hearing aids last several years, the transition to most being Auracast-capable will take time.
HHF Completes First Phase of Its Transformative Planned Giving Matching Challenge
The 218 planned gift commitments total an estimated $30 million to $50 million, 100 percent of which will be used to fund scientific research on hearing loss and related conditions.
Telecoil Plus Bluetooth, Please
We need both Bluetooth and telecoils in our hearing devices to take advantage of all the hearing situations we encounter so that sound can reach our ears, with clarity.