News on Legislation and Hearing Health

On May 1st, 2008 the Colorado General Assembly designated May 21st, 2008 as Tinnitus Awareness Day. The resolution states the importance of continuing research for a cure tinn...

The Better Hearing Institute, Advocates for Americas Ears, announced recently the launch of www.hearingaidtaxcredit.org, in collaboration with the Hearing Industries Association...

CASLPA Calls On Prime Minister for Action on Noisy Toys, Association Comments on New Product Safety LegislationOttawa (April 8, 2008) In light of the Prime announcement...

Concern with U.S. Marshals Hearing Testing, Evaluation Rules Rockville, MD - February 29, 2008 - The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) joined forces with an...

The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce today passed H.R. 1198, the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Act of 2008. The next step in the...

Washington -- A new Alliance between the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the National...

The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) announced its support of a recently released U.S. House of Representatives discussion draft, titled 21st Century Communications and...

Midland, MI - November 30, 2007 - Representative Dave Camp (R-MI) was the honored guest of two leading hearing advocacy organizations on Wednesday, November 28, 2007. The Hearing...

Yearlong, 50-State Disability Rights Bus Tour and Traveling Exhibit Returns to Washington, DC(Washington, DC) Senator Tom Harkin and other members of Congress will join Yoshiko...

August 13, 2007 - The Supreme Court of Ohio has released a new reference tool for judges throughout Ohio to assist them in working with interpreters for deaf or hard of hearing...

Powered By ADAWatch.orgAfter years of being weakened in the courts, Congress is coming to the rescue of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the bipartisan civil rights...

Allows states to count 2.0 percent of proficient and advanced scores on alternate assessment when measuring adequate yearly progressWashington, D.C. U.S. Secretary of Ma...

Rockville, Maryland, May 16, 2007---The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) congratulates Representatives Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) and Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) for...

About 40 people joined Representative Melissa Hart (PA, 4th district) in Cranberry Township near Pittsburgh, PA on October 30 to thank her for her co-sponsorship of H.R. 414, the...

This past week, the California state legislature passed a bill, initially introduced in 2002, requiring private HMOs and PPOs to diffuse some of the cost of hearing aids for...

'It is fundamental to an inclusive society that those with disabilities be accommodated when interacting with the institutions of government.' - Justice Richard MosleyOttawa (23...

Latest Q&A Fact Sheet Coincides with Anniversary of Landmark Disabilities ActWashington Cari M. Dominguez, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to...

A Proclamation by the President of the United States of AmericaThe Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has helped fulfill the promise of America for millions of individuals...

Known as H.R. 414 in the congress and S. 1060 in the senate, the Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act would allow persons over age 55, or parents of a hearing impaired dependent...

Alexandria, Va. (May 24, 2006) Representative Melissa Hart (R-PA) co-sponsored the Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit (H.R. 414) in early May. She is the 105th H.R 414 a...

November 29, 2005--U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings released the following statement on today's 30th anniversary of former President Gerald Ford signing on Nov. 29,...

Alexandria, Va. (November 9, 2005) Rep. Jim Ryun (R-KS) has been formally invited to testify at a major House Ways and Means Subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, November 16, dis...

Three more Representatives co-sponsored H.R. 414 in early July, bringing the total number of formal tax credit supporters in the House to 67. New co-sponsors include Rep. Bob...

Five more Representatives recently co-sponsored H.R. 414, bringing the total number of formal tax credit supporters to 64. New co-sponsors include Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA); Rep....

The FCC recently reaffirmed its rules concerning HAC compliance to accommodate technical challenges expressed by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA)...