News on Hearing Aid Assistance

As part of an effort to maximize the chances that hearing aid tax credit legislation will be enacted, HIA is supporting local hearing aid dispensers and people with hearing loss...

Utah-based company donates over $35,000 from Velocity hearing instrument sales. Salt Lake City- Sonic Innovations, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNCI) announced the company donated $35,492 to...

(Rockville, MD - November 17, 2008) The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and WYNIT, Inc. recently agreed to work together to promote "America: Tuned In Today ....

Kitchener, ON, Canada - Unitron Hearing today announced it has partnered with Australian charity, Carabez Alliance, to donate hearing instruments to school children in Fiji. The...

Skodsborg, DK October 28 - Ida Institute today unveiled a newly designed website, www.idainstitute.dk, that provides a virtual gathering place for hearing care professionals and...

The Special Olympics for Special Competitors The Special Olympics is the brainchild of Eunice Kennedy Shriver who started a day camp at her home for young people with special...

The ADA Amendment Act (ADAAA) was recently signed into law and will become effective on January 1, 2009. The bill, originally titled the “ADA Restoration Act,” was...

Thursday, October 16, 2008- Two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine researchers have been awarded a $540,000, three-year grant for a project aimed at...

The Federal Register confirmed earlier this week that the new version of ANSI S3.22-2003 will be incorporated into the Hearing Aid Regulation effective October 15, 2008 and WILL...

New Web Site Offers Parents Resources to Help Tweens Avoid Hearing Loss from NoiseA new campaign to help parents of 8- to 12-year-olds teach their children how to avoid hearing...

Seven million children in the United States between the ages of six and nineteen are hearing impaired, and research has shown that these children are much more likely to have...

Naerum, DK, September 16 - Ida Institute announced today that Sharmi Albrechtsen has joined the non-profit educational institute as a communications specialist. Albrechtsens resp...

The Ida Institute will convene its first educational seminar, Defining Hearing, September 25-27 in Skodsborg, Denmark. Distinguished faculty members Dr. Harvey Abrams, Kristin...

Napa, California, September 9, 2008 A capacity crowd of 75 Napa Valley residents gathered on Friday, Aug. 22 to urge Congressman Mike Thompson to champion the hearing aid cred...

Michael H. Stone of Washington, D.C., has been named president of the board of trustees of the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), the nation's largest organization for...

The Hearing Loss Association of Americas convention is an interactive and accessible event for people affected by hearing loss as well as family members and professionals....

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, August 16, 2008 A capacity crowd of 120 Las Vegas residents gathered on Saturday, Aug. 16, to thank Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV) for her co-sponsorship of He...

Sounds of joy rang through the house at the official Dedication Celebration for the Harlee Familys Habitat for Humanity home on Wednesday, July 30. Habitat for Humanity Charlot...

WASHINGTON, DC, August 8, 2008 Bipartisan Hearing Aid Tax Credit legislation (H.R. 2329 / S.1410) broke the 100 co-sponsor threshold as Congress adjourned for August Reps....

The FDA has issued a preliminary public health notification regarding the possible malfunction of electronic medical devices caused by computed tomography (CT) scanning. Accordin...

Since the unveiling of www.hearingaidtaxcredit.org on April 24, 2008 more than 12,000 letters have been sent to Congress in support of tax credits for hearing aids. More...

Utah-based company to donate up to $50 for each Velocity hearing aid purchase to help improve the quality of life for U.S. service men and womenSalt Lake City-Sonic Innovations,...

ASHA submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Education in response to its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would make changes to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB)...

June 12, 2008 - Reno, Nevada: Mark Ross, Ph.D., received the Hearing Loss Association of America's (HLAA) Lifetime Achievement Award during the Opening Session of HLAA's co...

Somerset, NJ July 15 To better assist hearing care professionals in providing optimum care for infants and toddlers newly identified with hearing Oticon Pediatrics has in...