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Research at Victoria University Aims to Improve Hearing Test and Treatment
Wednesday, March 14th 2012
Dr. Paul Teal with the School of Engineering and Computer Science is conducting an investigation whether new technologies can be used to more accurately and easily test for hearing loss.
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Free Online Hearing Test During Better Hearing and Speech Month
Monday, May 9th 2011
May is Better Hearing and Speech Month and Healthy Hearing has joined the Better Hearing and Speech Council (BHSC) in promoting the Across America Hearing Check Challenge – a free online hearing test that lets individuals quickly and confidentially determine if they need a comprehensive hearing check by a hearing professional.
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Infant Hearing Loss: Newborn Hearing Test Falls Short
Tuesday, March 22nd 2011
Universal newborn hearing test programs do not identify all cases of infant hearing loss.
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Free Online Hearing Test Helping Raise Awareness Of Kidney Disease Link
Thursday, March 17th 2011
Better Hearing Institute is offering a free, online hearing test as part of its effort to raise awareness of the link between chronic kidney disease and hearing loss.
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Hearing Loss: Hearing Tests Important Part Of Mens Health
Saturday, December 18th 2010
Many studies have shown that hearing loss, especially untreated hearing loss, can have a negative impact on the quality of life; everything from relationships with friends and loved ones, to earning power on the job.
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Hearing Tests: Audio Pros Get Free Hearing Screening
Tuesday, November 30th 2010
The House Ear Institute (HEI) returned for its 13th year at the AES Convention to provide hearing conservation education and free hearing screening tests to thousands of Audio Engineering Society (AES) members.
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Hearing Test: Newborn Screening Important to Development
Monday, November 1st 2010
The Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (CASLPA) launched its position paper on Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) as part of a national campaign to improve early identification of hearing loss in children.
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Hearing Screening: AES Convention Attendees Get Hearing Tests
Saturday, October 30th 2010
At the 129th AES Convention, House Ear Institute is returning for its 13th year to provide hearing conservation education and hearing screenings to thousands of Audio Engineering Society (AES) members and a comprehensive hearing health outreach program.
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CASLPA Speech Language Pathologists: International Literacy Day Challenge
Wednesday, September 22nd 2010
CASLPA members provide early hearing screening and communication development programs focus on providing intervention, by six months of age, in order to maximize the development of language and literacy skills during the critical period of birth to 2 years.
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Infant Hearing Screening: ASHA Award for New Kids on the Block (Podcast)
Tuesday, August 24th 2010
New Kid on the Block Joe McIntyre will receive the Annie Glenn Award and is featured a new podcast by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). McIntyre explains why he views his son Rhys’ hearing loss as a blessing and why he values the professionals who treat his child on a weekly basis.
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Hearing Tests: Simple and Painless
Saturday, August 21st 2010
Hearing Tests are painless, noninvasive and can quickly identify if you have hearing loss. If you answer Yes to any of the following hearing loss symptoms, you should get a hearing test.
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The Inner Ear: Realistically Measuring Its Properties
Thursday, July 15th 2010
New technique uses high-frequency sound to more realistically measure properties of the inner ear at acoustic frequencies similar to those of human hearing.
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Infant Hearing Screening: G20 To Protect Children’s Capacity to Learn
Thursday, June 24th 2010
Infants with hearing loss placed into early intervention programs by the age of 6 months perform significantly better on school and language measures. A simple, non-invasive and inexpensive test can identify hearing loss in newborns.
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Baby Health: Hearing Screening & Support Legislation Introduced
Monday, May 10th 2010
Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act originally passed in 1999, supporting infant hearing screening and family support.
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Newborn Screening: 'Heel Stick' Test Misses Hearing Loss Virus
Tuesday, May 4th 2010
A routine screening test for several metabolic and genetic disorders in newborns, the heel-stick procedure, is not effective in screening for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, a leading cause of hearing loss in children.
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uHear itunes Medical Application a Top 10 Download as Concerned Americans Test their Hearing
Sunday, February 21st 2010
February 2, 2009 - Plymouth, Minnesota - Today represents a milestone for the uHear application as it surpasses the quarter of a million download mark. uHear,...
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Winners of Ida Institute's Defining the Audiogram Challenge Use Energy, Engagement and Empathy to Facilitate Understandin
Wednesday, November 25th 2009
Naerum, Denmark November 9 - Ida Institute has selected Paul Peryman, PhD of the Van Asch Deaf Education Center in Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand and Cindy...
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Children of Boomers Want Their Parents to Listen Up
Friday, July 24th 2009
Untreated hearing loss can have devastating consequences on safety, work, as well as the overall quality of life. Yet, out of an estimated 31.5 million Americans who have hearing...
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The First Portable System for Measuring Hearing Damage in Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises
Saturday, January 31st 2009
The Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain, managed by researcher Michel Andre, has developed the first portable system in...
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Free Hearing Screenings at NAMM Convention for Audio and Music Pros
Tuesday, January 13th 2009
Los Angeles, CA - January 7, 2009 - The House Ear Institute (HEI) will provide free hearing screenings to attendees and exhibitors on the show floor of the 2009 NAMM...
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Reading and Communication Skills After Universal Newborn Screening for Permanent Childhood Hearing Impairment
Wednesday, December 24th 2008
A new study from the United Kingdom published online by the journal Archive of Disease in Childhood (Arch Dis Child. Published Online First: 17 November 2008....
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Colorado Newborns at Most Risk Miss Hearing Screening Tests
Monday, November 24th 2008
Newswise - A new study of Colorado birth records shows that infants with low Apgar scores - the widely used measure of newborn health - are 10 times less likely to receive an...
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Audio Pros Get Hearing Tested in Record Numbers
Monday, October 27th 2008
Los Angeles, CA October 7, 2008 During the three-day AES Convention, a record-breaking 674 people came to the House Ear Institutes booth to have their hearing This years...
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Parents Advised on How to Detect Communication Disorders in Their Children
Sunday, May 25th 2008
Group Uses Mays Better Hearing and Speech Month To Get The Word Out To Parents about Speech, Language, and Hearing Problems(Rockville, MD-May 13, 2008) Although more than millio...
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Listen Up America Week Brings Free National Hearing Screenings to Communities Around the Country
Thursday, April 3rd 2008
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Joins Forces with Audiology Awareness Campaign for Week-Long Event to Better Identify Hearing LossPittsburgh, PA May 5, 2008 the fact...
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