The Ida Institute announced a new collaboration between the Ida Institute, Healthy Hearing, and Hearing Directory, which will allow people with hearing loss across the US and Canada to identify hearing care professionals and clinics that have earned the Inspired by Ida label, “a benchmark of quality that signals dedication to person-centered care.”
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According to the article, NAD, which has been pursuing the changes since 2017, alleges that the hearing requirements were put into place at a “time of misguided stereotypes about the abilities and inabilities of deaf and hard of hearing individuals.”
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According to The Hill article, “New university buildings have glass walls and multilevel open spaces for group discussions — with screened-off areas for private conversations.”
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This year’s theme, “Hearing for Life. Don’t let hearing loss limit you,” is intended to remind the public that timely interventions can help ensure that people with hearing loss reach their “full potential.”
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Martha’s Vineyard, Mass, has a long history of sign language; in the late 1600s, the first congenitally deaf children were born on the island, and began communicating in a Kent, UK-based sign language, which eventually evolved into Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL).
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The competition asks entrepreneurs and start-up companies to showcase disruptive solutions that drive adoption and usage of hearing aids for the millions over age 50 who have hearing impairment in the US.
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Phonak’s expanded Marvel portfolio will be available in various countries around the globe over the coming weeks and pre-orders in the US began on February 19.
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The bill, among other things, would help defray the cost of bone-anchored hearing aids and cochlear implants, upgrades every 5 years, as well as surgeries and related doctor’s appointments, according to the article.
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The new centers will recruit volunteer military personnel exposed to impulse noise during their professional activities and suffering from hearing loss.
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According to the article, Catrina Hooper visited the St Paul police station in 2014 to file a domestic assault report; the station provided an officer who they said knew sign language, but Hooper’s lawsuit said the officer was not “a qualified interpreter,” as required by law.
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Some theories indicate that, as a result of difficulty hearing or background noise, the ear may send signals to regions in the front cortex of the brain involved in reasoning and decision making, rather than regions for speech comprehension.
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The Acoustics Sub-Working Group for the International Space Station, led by co-chairs Dick Danielson and Chris Allen, wins the innovation award for identifying the unique risk facing crew-members and developing solutions for reducing noise exposure.
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In partnership with Battery and Audio Precision, GRAS will continue its long-standing tradition of pursuing growth across the sectors it serves.
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Honnet is a medical doctor and joins the company from Généthon, where she spent nine years as Chief Medical Officer, overseeing international gene therapy clinical trials in multiple rare diseases.
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The settlement is part of a a case brought against the school that alleged it discriminated against deaf and hard-of-hearing people, according to “AP.”
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