Types and Degrees of Hearing Loss
Hearing loss is more common than most people realize. And it can affect anyone at any time in their life. If you think you or a loved one may have hearing loss, or if you’ve recently been diagnosed, you likely have questions. Below is some basic information to help you better understand the several types…
Talking To Your Doctor About Hearing Loss
Speech and Hearing has a helpful brochure, that will help you talk to your doctor if you are experiencing hearing loss.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Explains:
Protein in inner ear is key to how cells that help with hearing and balance are positioned. Using animal models, scientists have demonstrated that a protein called Emx2 is critical to how specialized cells that are important for maintaining hearing and balance are positioned in the inner ear. Emx2 is a transcription factor, a type…
Communication Disorders Take on Different Forms and Span From all Ages
Communicating effectively is critical to our ability to lead fulfilling lives. Difficulties with communication can occur at any life stage- infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and in our senior years. They can include challenges with speech, language, hearing comprehensions, memory and attention.
Speech Language Hearing Services for Children
Pediatric Speech and Audiology Information Session
Join Audiologist, Susan Woods, AuD, CCC-A, FAAA and Speech- Language Pathologist, Laura Chicchi, MS, CCC-SLP For a discussion on the importance of early detection and intervention in children with communication disorders Thursday, May 18th at 7-8:30 pm Topics that will be covered include: * Signs of communication disorders * Developmental milestones * The importance of…
Emergency app for smartphones
A new app called Haven allows speech and hearing impaired users to request help with their cellphones.Â
Heart and Hearing Health: Speech and Hearing Associates
We’ve long known that too much noise — too loud and for too long — damages our ears and our ability to hear.
Let Better Hearing Boost Your Happiness and Wellbeing, Check Your Hearing for World Mental Health Day
Washington, DC, October 5, 2015—Addressing hearing loss is important for mental wellbeing, says the Better Hearing Institute (BHI), which is raising awareness of the link between unaddressed hearing loss and depression for World Mental Health Day on October 10. BHI is urging people of all ages to include regular hearing tests as part of a healthy…
A Technological Godsend to Counter Hearing Loss
From the Wall Street Journal, August 28, 2015 The ‘hearing loop’ is a remarkable advance, but all too hard to find in the U.S. By David G. Myers The first time I clicked on my hearing aids’ telecoils, it seemed like magic. It was 1999 and my wife and I were sitting in a historic…