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What percentage of hearing loss do I have?
Monday, October 24th 2011
Although sometimes people talk about hearing loss in terms of percentage, it is not an appropriate or meaningful measure of hearing loss.
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The Best Phone Apps to Check Your Hearing
Wednesday, October 19th 2011
We have reviewed the best phone apps designed to check for signs of hearing loss. This review discusses several that are currently available for iPhone and Android.
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What Can I Expect When Having A Hearing Test?
Tuesday, July 5th 2011
A hearing test is the first step in determining if you have hearing loss or need hearing aids. It is a quick, painless, and non-invasive test performed by an audiologist or hearing aid dispenser.
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Do I Need Hearing Aids?
Tuesday, June 7th 2011
The first step in determining whether or not you have hearing loss is to have your hearing evaluated at a hearing center.
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Free Online Hearing Test During Better Hearing and Speech Month
Monday, May 9th 2011
May is Better Hearing and Speech Month and Healthy Hearing has joined the Better Hearing and Speech Council (BHSC) in promoting the Across America Hearing Check Challenge – a free online hearing test that lets individuals quickly and confidentially determine if they need a comprehensive hearing check by a hearing professional.
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What Should I Expect From a Hearing Test and Evaluation? [VIDEO]
Thursday, March 31st 2011
Learn about hearing tests and hearing evaluations from Jessica Krause, M.S. and Managing Editor of HealthyHearing.com. [Video]
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Infant Hearing Loss: Newborn Hearing Test Falls Short
Tuesday, March 22nd 2011
Universal newborn hearing test programs do not identify all cases of infant hearing loss.
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Free Online Hearing Test Helping Raise Awareness Of Kidney Disease Link
Thursday, March 17th 2011
Better Hearing Institute is offering a free, online hearing test as part of its effort to raise awareness of the link between chronic kidney disease and hearing loss.
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How To Understand Your Hearing Test Results
Tuesday, January 25th 2011
Your hearing test will be graphed on something called an audiogram, which demonstrates your hearing sensitivity for different pitches and volumes.
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Hearing Loss: How Can I Tell If I'm Losing Hearing?
Monday, December 20th 2010
My family is telling me I need to visit a hearing center and get a hearing test, but I'm not sure. How can I tell if I have hearing loss?
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Hearing Loss: Hearing Tests Important Part Of Mens Health
Saturday, December 18th 2010
Many studies have shown that hearing loss, especially untreated hearing loss, can have a negative impact on the quality of life; everything from relationships with friends and loved ones, to earning power on the job.
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Hearing Tests: Audio Pros Get Free Hearing Screening
Tuesday, November 30th 2010
The House Ear Institute (HEI) returned for its 13th year at the AES Convention to provide hearing conservation education and free hearing screening tests to thousands of Audio Engineering Society (AES) members.
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Hearing Test: Newborn Screening Important to Development
Monday, November 1st 2010
The Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (CASLPA) launched its position paper on Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) as part of a national campaign to improve early identification of hearing loss in children.
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Hearing Screening: AES Convention Attendees Get Hearing Tests
Saturday, October 30th 2010
At the 129th AES Convention, House Ear Institute is returning for its 13th year to provide hearing conservation education and hearing screenings to thousands of Audio Engineering Society (AES) members and a comprehensive hearing health outreach program.
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CASLPA Speech Language Pathologists: International Literacy Day Challenge
Wednesday, September 22nd 2010
CASLPA members provide early hearing screening and communication development programs focus on providing intervention, by six months of age, in order to maximize the development of language and literacy skills during the critical period of birth to 2 years.
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Hearing Loss in Children: Back to School Awareness
Monday, September 20th 2010
As the child grows and enters school, undetected hearing loss contributes to longer learning curves. At times, children may be misdiagnosed with cognitive learning delay caused by some other underlying factor other than simple, addressable hearing loss.
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Infant Hearing Screening: ASHA Award for New Kids on the Block (Podcast)
Tuesday, August 24th 2010
New Kid on the Block Joe McIntyre will receive the Annie Glenn Award and is featured a new podcast by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). McIntyre explains why he views his son Rhys’ hearing loss as a blessing and why he values the professionals who treat his child on a weekly basis.
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Hearing Tests: Simple and Painless
Saturday, August 21st 2010
Hearing Tests are painless, noninvasive and can quickly identify if you have hearing loss. If you answer Yes to any of the following hearing loss symptoms, you should get a hearing test.
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The Inner Ear: Realistically Measuring Its Properties
Thursday, July 15th 2010
New technique uses high-frequency sound to more realistically measure properties of the inner ear at acoustic frequencies similar to those of human hearing.
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Infant Hearing Screening: G20 To Protect Children’s Capacity to Learn
Thursday, June 24th 2010
Infants with hearing loss placed into early intervention programs by the age of 6 months perform significantly better on school and language measures. A simple, non-invasive and inexpensive test can identify hearing loss in newborns.
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Men's Health Week: Get A Hearing Test
Monday, June 14th 2010
61% of hearing loss occurs in men, so guys, get a hearing test during Men's Health Week.
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Baby Health: Hearing Screening & Support Legislation Introduced
Monday, May 10th 2010
Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act originally passed in 1999, supporting infant hearing screening and family support.
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Healthy Woman: The Good Life and Good Hearing Go Hand-in-Hand
Monday, May 10th 2010
Better Hearing Institute (BHI) says that more than 13 million women suffer from unaddressed hearing loss, which undermines their quality of life. A great number of women don't include a hearing test as part of their healthcare routine because they attach more stigma to hearing loss than men.
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Newborn Screening: 'Heel Stick' Test Misses Hearing Loss Virus
Tuesday, May 4th 2010
A routine screening test for several metabolic and genetic disorders in newborns, the heel-stick procedure, is not effective in screening for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, a leading cause of hearing loss in children.
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Hearing Test: Don't Fear, It Doesn't Hurt
Monday, March 1st 2010
A hearing test is a simple, quick, non-invasive test to determine if you have hearing loss. Based on your hearing test results and the audiogram the hearing professional will make treatment recommendations such as hearing aids.
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