OTC Hearing Aids: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

OTC hearing aids will be sold both in-person and online, and it is critical that you educate yourself and, as with any purchase, weigh the benefits and drawbacks.

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Impact 2022

Your generous support produced significant achievements this past year.

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A Musician Learns From Tinnitus Across the Generations

As a mixing engineer, "carving” out these frequencies with my ears ringing from nightly concerts was a challenge but also provided me deep insight into what music must have sounded like to my mother who has tinnitus—disjointed and unbalanced.

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Hearing Aids or Cochlear Implants?

Hearing aids are the number one choice for the majority of people with hearing loss, but for those who have severe or profound hearing loss, cochlear implants may be a better option, especially if hearing aids are not able to benefit them.

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Improving How to Assess Speech Production

During typical conversational interactions, humans use over 100 different muscles in the vocal tract to produce up to six to nine syllables per second, which is one of the fastest types of motor behavior.

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Welcome to the 2022 SoundPrint Find Your Quiet Place Challenge

The goal for the Find Your Quiet Place Challenge is to generate quiet spot lists and let venue managers know that we care about noise.

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Common Imaging Test for the Heart Applied to the Inner Ear

The research team is using medical imaging involving the use of a tracer—a small amount of radioactive material that will allow radiologists to see what’s occurring inside the ear.

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From Denial to Pride

At the age of 36, I have less than three degrees of peripheral vision, very severe night blindness to the point where I almost can’t function without assistance, and some hearing loss that makes it necessary to wear hearing aids.

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A Look at the Business of Selling Hearing Aids

As a former retailer, I think if electronic marvels like smartphones or smartwatches could be profitably sold at a fraction of the price of the average pair of hearing aids, someone somewhere had to be making a bundle while serving the needs of people with hearing loss.

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How to Hear Better in the Classroom

As classrooms are nearly always inherently noisy, it’s a challenge for children with hearing loss as well as typical hearing children to always be able to fully hear and understand what’s being said in the classroom.

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