Articles on Hearing Aid Technology

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.

"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...

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...

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...

Assistive Listening Devices (ALDs) are fairly common in Americas movie theaters, thanks to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Although significant progress has made,...

IntroductionThe professional staff of Dallas Otolaryngology Associates and HEAR In Dallas joined forces to form the Dallas Otolaryngology Associates Cochlear Implant (DOA-CI)...

Hear the BAHA System Without ImplantationThe BAHA system is the only implanted treatment for hearing loss that works through direct bone conduction. This unique method of tr...

One day, in March of 1994, I woke up with no hearing in my right ear. As you can imagine, it was quite a surprise. I was given steroids by my physician, in an attempt to restore...

IntroductionConsumers report they want hearing aids to provide more benefit in noisy situations, have better sound quality and produce less feedback (Kochkin, 2002). Many of...

Editors Note: It has been a joy and a delight to work with Mr. Betty on his adventures from hearing loss, to cochlear implantation, and back to his hearing world. I grateful t...

Tacoma, WashingtonCochlear Implant surgery is fairly well known by the surgeons and the audiologists that deal with it all the time. Afterall, cochlear implants have been appr...

How often have you sat in meetings, and even though you didnt hear the joke, laughed because everyone else did? How often have you pretended to hear, when reallythe sounds were...

N. Las Vegas, NevadaIn the year 2000, my life came to a screeching halt. I was suddenly deaf and could not accomplish my daily living tasks as I had done for 50 some years. The...

Professional Services CoordinatorBionic Ear AssociationAdvanced BionicsSanta Clarita, CAMay is Better Hearing Month and it is, therefore, a perfect time to reflect on the...

Getting a cochlear implant was one of the more gratifying things Ive done. It means so much to me to have the implant, and not a day goes by when I dont enjoy it. Ive discovered...

Cochlear Implant Education CenterLaurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center, Gallaudet UniversityWashington, D.C.Cochlear implant technology provides deaf children with access...

No one doubts that in the last ten years hearing aids have become smaller and ''smarter.'' Many are now capable of processing speech and noise in ways we could hardly have...

Getting a cochlear implant was not on my list of things to do. Being deaf was as natural as having blue eyes and buying a box of red hair dye. Having gone deaf at 18 old d...

Q: WHAT CAUSES INTERFERENCE BETWEEN DIGITAL CELL PHONES AND HEARING AIDS?A: When using a digital cell phone, the telephone conversation is transmitted over a wireless usin...

EDITOR's NOTE - I recently learned about the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center at Gallaudet, and their website titled "Cochlear Implants: Navigating a Forest of...

I woke up deaf one morning. It was during the Spring of 1971, I was living in Anchorage, Alaska. No warning, no nothing. I a 17 year-old high school student with perfec...

I would like to offer a different view of the cochlear implant experience-based on my perspective, after six years experience wearing a cochlear implant. There are many personal...

In Russia, children with disabilities can be denied an education. In America, we have IDEA. In Brazil, it is acceptable to deny employment to a person with disability, specific...

For 42 years I lived a healthy life. During the winter of 1992, I became very ill. I had a temperature of 103 degrees, strep throat and ear infections. I was treated with...

From the beginning of my discussions about cochlear implants, I thought the greatest benefit would be ''balance'' with regard to hearing. I intended to wear my hearing aid the...