Hearing Aid Assistance

The Explore Your Future (EYF) program at Rochester Institute of Technology offers college-bound high school sophomores and juniors with hearing loss a unique opportunity to experience life on a college campus, explore their interests & various careers.

A new FCC rule requires wireless microphones that operate in the 700 MHz Band to stop operating no later than June 12, 2010 and will affect many theaters, churches, schools, conference centers, theme parks, and musicians.

HIA’s long-term, dedicated efforts in support of the Hearing Aid Tax Credit laid the essential groundwork for HIA and its hearing health allies to effectively engage Congress in opposition to a proposed tax on medical devices including hearing aids.

The complicated process by which the Senate and House adopted sweeping health reform legislation ended yesterday with the House's adoption of minor changes that the Senate made to the Health Reform Reconciliation Bill. The final legislation specifically exempts hearing aids from a new medical device tax.

The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) will provide qualified sign language interpreters as required by federal law to deaf and hard-of-hearing persons using its...

Group Appeals To Lawmakers For Long-Term Solution   Rockville, MD ? March 3, 2010 - The Speech-Language-Hearing Assoc...

The American Academy of Audiology, on behalf of audiologists, and the Hearing Loss Association of America, on behalf of people with hearing loss announce a collaborative public...

Rockville, MD-January 28, 2010- The American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation (ASHFoundation) recently awarded $378,000 to 39 individuals in support of...

New York, Feb. 23 - In celebration of Better Hearing and Speech Month in May, Deafness Research Foundation (DRF) announces a drawing contest for children and...

Washington, D.C. February 18, 2010 The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AG Bell) today announced the 2010...

The Oticon Foundation announced that it will donate 250,000 kroners (approximately $50,000) to support relief services for victims of the earthquake that devastated Haiti on...

The Hearing Loss Association of Florida announces the second annual Joan Andrews Scholarship.   Joan Andrews, former president of the Florida Association of Self Help...

December 20, 2009 - President Obama signed into law an omnibus fiscal year 2010 spending bill that combined six different appropriations bills which provide...

Grammy award winning singer songwriter Sting will lend his support to the Hear the World initiative, a global hearing loss campaign that helps raise awareness about the...

January 15, 2010 - The Better Hearing Institute (BHI) elected Gordon Walker, VP General Manager of Knowles...

AG Bell has named Inez K. Janger as the 2010 recipient of its prestigious Honors of the Association Award, which is given to individuals who have demonstrated dedication to, and...

Washington, DC, January 26, 2010 - Hearing Aid Tax Credit legislation in the House of Representatives (H.R. 1646) shattered previous co-sponsorship records...

The Assocation is offering raffle tickets for a "Cruise for Two" on the newer Royal Caribbean ruise ship, Freedom of the Seas, sailing October 17, 2010 to the Western...

AG Bell's acclaimed LOFT 2010 program will take place from June 20-24, 2010, at the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek in Orlando, Fla., just prior to the

The Hearing Loss Association of America® would like to invite you to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for Convention 2010, June 17 - 20, at the Hilton Milwaukee City...

Approximately 95 percent of people with hearing loss can be helped by hearing aids, only 23 percent use them. Cost of hearing aids is a primary reason for not seeking help. NIDCD's working group is investigating ways to make hearing care affordable.

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January 15, 2010 - During this economic downturn with record-breaking unemployment rates, ODEP and its Federal partners are launching a six-city Listening Tour...

Congress also considers children's coverage mandate and payment disclosure rules The election of Scott Brown (R-MA) to the Senate is likely to have a...

On Saturday, February 6, 2010, from 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m., New York City-area students with hearing loss and their parents are invited to a free one-day conference entitled "Life...