New hearing technology articles about hearing aids, restoring your hearing, cochlea impant mimicing normal hearing, etc.

Here are the latest news pieces and articles for the benefit of individuals who are deaf, deafened and hard of hearing.

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Hearing Aids

The Songbird $40 Disposable Hearing Aid ... click here.
SOUND BYTES - The unloved hearing aid has evolved into a tiny computer in your ear, able to respond to its environment without human fiddling. And the inventors of the device are betting that aging baby boomers will give it a ringing endorsement -- with their wallets... click here.
The Binaural Advantage -- why are two hearing aids better than one? ... click here.

Hearing Dogs

Hearing Loss and Protection

The Five Stages of Grieving - Over Hearing Loss ... click here.
Turning Down The Decibels - It's A Noisy World Out There! ... click here.
The Mechanics of Hearing and Hearing Loss ... click here
No Need to Turn a Deaf Ear - Two Types of Hearing Loss... click here
Getting Older, Listening Harder - Baby Boomers ... click here.
Music Induced Hearing Loss - A Growing Problem ... click here.
Quiet Down: Adolescents Suffering From Noise-Induced Hearing Loss! ... click here.
In Space, No-one Can Hear You Speak--And Noise May Drown Out Alarms ... click here.

Parents, Caregivers and Teachers

Listening to the Needs of Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children ... click here.
The ABCs of Hearing - a Young Deaf Boy Flourishes ... click here
Teens At Risk! - What Can You Do To Protect Your Kids?! ... click here.
Screening the Hearing of Infants - Good News Comes in the form of a $1 Million Grant ... click here.
Gallup Survey Shows Moms Are Concerned About Ear Infection Effects ... click here.
Oberkotter Foundation - Free Parent Resource Kit and Videos ... click here.

Cochlear and Middle Ear Implants

Bionic Ears - The Next Generation of Cochlear Implants ... click here.
New Cochlear Implant On Leading Edge ... click here.
RESEARCHERS FINDING WAYS TO MAKE COCHLEA IMPLANTS BETTER MIMIC NORMAL HEARING. - IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Although cochlear implants have opened up the world of sound for many individuals with profound hearing loss or deafness, the devices fall short of replicating the normal hearing process... click here.
Middle ear implants - an alternative to hearing aids ... click here.
Cochlear Corporation Introduces "Koalas for Kids" ... click here

Closed Captioning

Dinner and a Movie - Reality for the Hearing Impaired - Theatre Closed Captioning ... click here.
The Closed Captioned Joe Karma Show - Review ... click here.

Assistive Listening Devices (ALDs)

Turning Up The World's Volume - Assistive Hearing Devices ... click here.
Roaming Phones for the Disabled - Refined digital telephone transmission technology enables wireless phones to transmit typed text via TTY effortlessly ... click here.

Other Science, and Medical Breakthroughs

New Research Points the Way to Restoring Noise Induced Hearing Loss in Mammals, Including Humans ... click here.
Northwestern researchers clone gene responsible for inner ear motor ... click here.
Component of aspirin prevents antibiotic-induced deafness ... click here.
Can We Prevent Hearing Loss In Elderly Women? - Research shows that age-related hearing loss may be related to nutritional status ... click here.
Sudden falls for elderly may be caused by overlooked ear disorder. - Sudden fall attacks among the elderly can be related to an overlooked inner ear disorder ... click here.
The Chemical Leupeptin Protects Against Noise-Induced Hearing Loss ... click here.
New hearing test can improve diagnosis of middle ear disorders ... click here.
Can Computers Communicate Like People Do? (Part One) ... click here.
Human-Computer Interaction Gets a Helping Hand, Eye and Voice (Part Two)... click here.
UCSD Study of Uncoordinated Fruit Flies Provides Molecular Clues to Hearing Problems in Humans ... click here.
Rate of Sound Impulses Markedly Affects Ability To Perceive ... click here.
Helping to Better Understand the Development and Maturation of the Auditory Pathway ... click here.
Rare Hallucinations Make Music In The Mind click here.

Non-Profit Organizations and Associations

Hearing Federation of Canada (HFOC) has plans and funding to help deaf and hard of hearing Canadians ... click here.
HFOC has National Vision for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing ... click here
An International Non-Profit is reaching out to the Hearing Impaired ... click here.
Oberkotter Foundation - Free Parent Resource Kit and Videos ... click here.
American Tinnitus Association Package - American Tinnitus Association offers many resources that will help to answer all your questions about tinnitus ... click here

Miscellaneous

Deaf Butterflies Develop Ears - A Little Bit Of Trivia ... click here.
Use Your Computer As A TTY/TDD ... click here.
Insurance Covers Hearing Aids for Dogs & Cats ... Not People ... click here.
Sign Language Barbie - Proceeds Donated To The Deaf ... click here.
Using spatial illusion to learn how the brain processes sound ... click here.
Manatees are hard of hearing. - Manatees get run down by motorboats because they can't hear them coming, a new study suggests ... click here.
Concorde to blame for missing pigeons? - Shock waves from supersonic aircraft stop homing pigeons hearing the low-frequency sound that may help them find their way home ... click here.

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