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The Best Phone Apps for Video Relay
Thursday, April 19th 2012
There are several new phone apps in the market to help deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals to communicate with friends and family in real time.
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The Best Apps for Captioning
Thursday, February 9th 2012
Phone applications provide people suffering from hearing impairment and loss on-the-go captioning services with in-call and movie options.
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The Best Apps for Learning Sign Language
Tuesday, November 1st 2011
Today's smart phone apps make learning sign language convenient and interactive. We've reviewed the best apps for learning sign language here.
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Newest Hearing Aids: Tiny Computers Delivering Great Sound
Monday, August 9th 2010
A review of the newest hearing aids reveal they are discrete, automated, powerful little computers that learn your preferences, so the longer you wear them, the better they get to know your likes and dislikes.
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Digital Hearing Aids with Bluetooth Technology for 8 Devices
Monday, July 26th 2010
The latest digital hearing aids with Bluetooth technology have changed the way hearing aid users stay connected. The Oticon Bluetooth Streamer delivers signals from up to eight different devices.
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T Loop: Perfect With Hearing Aids
Monday, March 15th 2010
Loop systems and telecoils provide many benefits to hearing aid users including receiving sound directly from sound loops in public facilities to improve hearing in difficult listening environments.
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Personal Story
Thursday, October 9th 2008
A Personal Cochlear Implant Story. Our website at www.healthyhearing.com contains many user stories about successful hearing aid and cochlear implant users. We wanted to share one with you.
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Getting An Implant
Thursday, October 9th 2008
Find out if you are a candidate for a cochlear implant. An evaluation at a cochlear implant center a facility that specializes in cochlear implants can determine if you are a candidate. Cochlear implant treatment has rapidly advanced over the years.
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How CIs Work
Tuesday, September 30th 2008
The sound processor creates a coded signal. The transmitting coil sends a signal wirelessly across the skin. The receiver/stimulator activates the electrodes and stimulates the auditory/hearing nerve. The auditory nerve sends the signal to the brain.
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TV Never Sounded So Good: Wireless Connectivity Hooks Your Hearing Aid Up
Monday, September 22nd 2008
Well, the networks are rolling out their new offerings for the fall viewing season and the question is: are you ready for some football? Or, more specifically, are your hearing...
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Severe Hearing Loss Harms Relationships: Survey Reveals Solutions to Fit Any Need
Monday, August 25th 2008
A recent Cochlear' Americas survey reveals what most of us already know. Hearing loss hurts relationships personal, professional all relationships. Spouses feeling negle...
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Bilateral Cochlear Implants: A Fitting Choice for Mother and Daughter
Monday, April 28th 2008
In many ways, Michelle Tjelmeland and her 10-year-old daughter, Ellie, are hearing miracles. With the help of modern technology, they went from the world of total silence to...
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Hearing Aid Compatibility with Cell Phones
Monday, April 14th 2008
Millions of people who wear hearing aids have a difficult time with the use of cell phones. The problem is the way that sound is emitted over a wireless network. The conversation is transmitted using radio waves...
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Hearing Journey: Online Listening and Language Activities for Kids
Monday, March 24th 2008
What a great idea. A fabulous idea!The world-wide-web is used for all kinds of things: to buy stuff from the comfort of home, comparison shopping, communicating, research like...
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Cochlear Implants: Graeme Clark Scholarships Announced
Monday, March 17th 2008
This unique award is presented to Nucleus cochlear implant recipients around the world to help defray the costs of higher education.
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Technology Marches On! Wireless Comes to Hearing Aids
Monday, October 8th 2007
The world is on the move. Today, were all connected to the grid through cell phones, wireless laptops, Blackberry PDAs, wireless TV (the dish) and other devices that keep us...
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Types of ALDs
Sunday, September 23rd 2007
There are many assistive listening devices available today, from sophisticated systems used in theaters and auditoriums to small personal systems.
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Michael Chorost: Cyborg
Monday, September 10th 2007
Imagine this.Youre at a busy airport waiting for your rental car when the sound goes off. Not the sound of your MP3 player or the sounds of speakers announcing arrivals and...
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What Types of ALDs Exist?
Wednesday, September 5th 2007
There are many assistive listening devices available today, from sophisticated systems used in theaters and auditoriums to small personal systems. Various kinds of assistive listening devices are listed ...
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International Conference Sheds Light on Cochlear Implants in Children
Wednesday, June 20th 2007
A recent international conference on cochlear implants in children used new research data to identify patients who can benefit from the latest breakthroughs in hearing...
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Different Kinds of Implants: Auditory, Penetrating and Hybrid
Monday, August 7th 2006
In my judgment, the advent of cochlear implants has been the most significant prosthetic advance for people with hearing loss since the development of the first wearable electronic hearing aid.
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The Mobile Phone Challenge
Monday, July 10th 2006
"Mobile phones. Can't live with them. Can't live without them." That was my complaint to my wife after our 16-year-old son recently lost his mobile phone. It's not...
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Book Excerpt from Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human
Monday, June 6th 2005
Editor's Note: This is a very unusual event for us. We have not previously published an excerpt from an autobiography. Despite my own personal 21 years experience researching...
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Maximizing Our Ability to Hear on the Telephone
Monday, January 3rd 2005
At Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH), we receive many inquiries asking how hard of hearing people can hear better over the telephone. We've also heard from a number o...
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ALDs and Movies: Missed Opportunities and How to Overcome Them
Monday, December 20th 2004
Assistive Listening Devices (ALDs) are fairly common in Americas movie theaters, thanks to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Although significant progress has made,...
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