In what “ABC News” reports as a “first” the White House will provide a sign-language interpreter for President Biden’s presidential address to Congress on Wednesday.
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Starkey announced that Livio Edge AI has been chosen as a finalist in the Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Products category in the 2021 Medical Design Excellence Awards competition.
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Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf (RIT/NTID) announced new research that it says will help determine the level of reproductive health knowledge in women who are deaf or hard of hearing. The research also addresses concerns that deaf and hard-of-hearing women encounter significant barriers to receiving appropriate reproductive healthcare services and health information.
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Researchers examined the association of hearing loss with “objectively measured physical activity,” hypothesizing that a hearing impairment would be linked with a less rigorous and regular physical activity regimen.
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The US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced on April 16 that it will be providing a Dear Colleague Letter reminding community partners that are involved in the COVID-19 pandemic response that the “Americans with Disabilities Act” applies to their services.
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Plenty of people struggle to make sense of a multitude of converging voices in a crowded room. Commonly known as the “cocktail party effect,” people with hearing loss find it’s especially difficult to understand speech in a noisy environment. New research suggests that, for some listeners, this may have less to do with actually discerning sounds. Instead, it may be a processing problem in which two ears blend different sounds together – a condition known as binaural pitch fusion.
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Hearing aid manufacturer Rexton announced an all-new line-up of rechargeable M-Core behind-the-ear (BTE) hearing aids. The new M-Core devices help “improve hearing in any situation, and include the M-Core B-Li P, the M-Core B-Li M, and the M-Core B-Li HP – the company’s first high-power rechargeable BTE hearing aid that delivers up to 61 hours of battery life on a single charge.”
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The study is based on evidence from diverse fields such as archaeology, evolutionary genomics, neurobiology, animal behavior, and clinical research on neuropsychiatric disorders. With these, it shows that the reduction of reactive aggressiveness, resulting from the evolution and process of self-domestication of our species, could have led to an increase in the complexity of speech.
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The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that it has named Lisa L. Cunningham, PhD, as the scientific director/director of the Division of Intramural Research. In this role, Dr Cunningham will oversee the intramural or “in-house” research programs, which have roughly 165 employees working in 13 labs.
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Hear.com, an online provider of hearing care, announced that it has filed a registration statement on Form F-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) relating to the proposed initial public offering (IPO) of the common shares of hear.com NV.
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Starkey announced that Livio Edge AI has won a 2021 MUSE Design Award in the Product Design category. The MUSE Design Awards are an international competition for designers whose craftsmanship “shifts paradigms.”
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Oticon announced that graduate students earning AuD or PhD degrees in audiology have until May 31 to apply for Empowering Students Scholarships for the 2021-22 academic year.
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The American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACI Alliance) will award two lifetime achievement awards at its upcoming virtual conference CI2021: Cochlear Implants in Children and Adults. The award winners are Ann Gears, PhD, and Richard T. Miyamoto, MD.
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Listen Technologies announced it has been named on the Women Tech Council (WTC) 2021 Shatter List, a list that “honors companies with active programs and policies that help break the glass ceiling for women in technology.” This is the fourth consecutive year Listen Technologies has been named to the list.
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Akouos, Inc announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted both Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) and Rare Pediatric Disease Designation (RPDD) for AK-OTOF, a gene therapy intended for the treatment of otoferlin gene-mediated hearing loss.
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