Here are the references for the Fall 2025 issue of Hearing Health.
“From Gradual Hearing Loss to National Advocacy,” page 10:
Kwapo, Williamena. “Breaking The Silence: Activist Fights For Access As Section 504 Faces Threat.” The Sacramento Observer, March 24, 2025.
Watson, Tremmel. “Breaking down barriers: How CART gave me back my voice.” National Court Reporters Association, Jan. 24, 2025.
“Access Isn’t One Size Fits All,” page 12:
Accessibility.com. “Do All Deaf People Use Sign Language?” Aug. 17, 2021.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “Referring Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children to Early Intervention.” Aug. 2, 2022.
Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA). 2025 Annual Convention: Understanding the 2025 Hearing Health Landscape.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). “Quick Statistics About Hearing.” Updated March 25, 2021.
Rhode Island Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (CDHH). “American Sign Language.”(accessed Sept. 26, 2025).
Wyatt, Chelle. “Hard of Hearing Communication Needs.” Hearing Loss LIVE!
“What Is the Cingulo-Opercular Network?,” page 30:
Anderson, Samira. “Hearing Aid Use Improves Brain Processing Over Time.” Hearing Health Foundation, July 21, 2022.
Diao, Tongxiang; et al. “Compensation in neuro-system related to age-related hearing loss.” Acta Oto-Laryngologica, Jan. 24, 2024.
Steward, Grace; Looi, Vivian; Chib, Vikram S. “The Neurobiology of Cognitive Fatigue and Its Influence on Effort-Based Choice.” Journal of Neuroscience, June 11, 2025.
Vaden, Kenneth I.; Kuchinsky, Stefanie E.; Cute, Stephanie L.; Ahlstrom, Jayne B.; Dubno, Judy R.; Eckert, Mark A. “The cingulo-opercular network provides word-recognition benefit.” Journal of Neuroscience, Nov. 27, 2013.
Vaden, Kenneth I.; Kuchinsky, Stefanie E.; Rudner, Mary; et al. “Evidence for cortical adjustments to perceptual decision criteria during word recognition in noise.” Journal of Neuroscience, 2022.
“Recent Research by Hearing Health Foundation Scientists, Explained,” page 36:
Berg, Katelyn A.; Glassman, E. Katelyn; Jiam, Nicole T.; Landsberger, David M.; Haynes, David S. “Enhancing musical experiences for cochlear implant users: Insights from the 2024 International Fall Cochlear Implant Meeting.” Otology & Neurotology Open, June 2025.
Inside Precision Medicine. “Cancer Genes Could Be Key to Future Hearing Loss Treatments.” July 14, 2025.
Kim, Subong; Arzac, Susan; Dokic, Natalie; Donnelly, Jenn; Genser, Nicole; Nortwich, Kristen; Rooney, Alexis. “Individual noise-tolerance profiles and neural signal-to-noise ratio: Insights into predicting speech-in-noise performance and noise-reduction outcomes.” Audiology Research, July 2, 2025.
Kim, Subong; Schroeder, Mary; Bharadwaj, Hari M. “Effect of digital noise reduction processing on subcortical speech encoding and relationship to behavioral outcomes.” Scientific Reports, July 1, 2025.
Lush, Mark E.; Tsai, Ya-Yin; Chen, Shiyuan; Münch, Daniela; Peloggia, Julia; Sandler, Jeremy E.; Piotrowski, Tatjana. “Cancer genes could be key to future hearing loss treatments.” Nature Communications, July 14, 2025.
Miranda Portillo, Lyn S.; Huang, Austin P.; Hosamani, Ishwar V.; Sanchez, Celeste N.; Heller, Stefan; Benkafadar, Nesrine. “Anatomical and molecular insights into avian inner ear sensory hair cell regeneration.” Developmental Biology, September 2025.
Podury, Archana; Barry, Brooke; Barrett, Karen C.; Jiam, Nicole T. “Perfecting sensory restoration and the unmet need for personalized medicine in cochlear implant users: A narrative review.” Brain Sciences, May 1, 2025.
Stowers Institute for Medical Research. “Regrowing hearing cells: New gene functions discovered in zebrafish offer clues for future hearing loss treatments.” July 14, 2025.
Xu, Fei; et al. “Foxg1 gene mutation impairs auditory cortex response and reduces sound tolerance.” Cerebral Cortex, June 25, 2025.
