There are many different organizations whose sole mission is to support children with hearing loss. Their services range from support groups and programs to mobile apps. Here is a list of the resources that can be helpful if your child, or a loved one, suffers with hearing loss. Support for
Read more →It may seem counter-intuitive that music can help the hearing-impaired to detect sound, but that is exactly what research is discovering. In fact, scientists are finding that music and singing may help hearing-impaired children to perceive speech. That’s an important finding given the role that communication plays in early childhood
Read more →The Hard of Hearing Young People Foundation is an organization worth knowing about. Their slogan tells you everything you need to know, “You Give. We Share. People Hear.” The 501c3 not-for-profit foundation was formed in 2011 with the mission to “help hard of hearing youth secure adequate hearing aids to enhance
Read more →Holiday gatherings can be especially trying for the hearing impaired. Multiple conversations, music and laughter can combine into one indiscernible din. However, if you are hearing impaired, there are ways to improve hearing in noisy situations. Sit at a table with fewer than six people. The fewer the number of
Read more →It could be said that musicians create the sound track of our lives. We associate music with important life events. It has the power to make us dance, cry and laugh, but sometimes it’s at a significant cost to the musicians themselves. From Beethoven to members of Black Sabbath, many
Read more →Many activities of daily life become more difficult with impaired hearing, not least of which is participating in conversations. Given the fact that millions of people cannot hear the frequencies at which speech occurs, knowing how to communicate with a hearing-impaired person can make a difference. It can improve communication,
Read more →Forty-eight million Americans have some degree of hearing loss and increasingly public services and institutions have become aware of it. As a result, research is being performed, programs enacted, services deployed, and products developed to improve the quality of life for the hearing impaired. Here are some of the recent
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