USC Study: Hearing Devices Reduce Loneliness, Improve Quality of Life
The USC study is the first to link hearing aids and cochlear implants to improved social lives among adults with hearing loss.
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Hearing Aid Delay: Two /i/ or Not Two /i/?
A new study looks at how different hearing aid delay times can cause coloration-pitch distortions for vowel sounds, and what can be done to counter this effect.
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Young Baby Brains Rehearse Sounds
Infants can tell the difference between sounds of all languages until about 8 months of age when their brains start to focus only on the sounds they hear around them.
Right Product; Wrong Message
How might we break the self-perpetuating negative perception associated with hearing healthcare and amplification? It’s time we all become committed to establishing a new social norm in hearing care—one that focuses on “maximal hearing and listening.”
Read MoreGet Your Hearing Checked for American Diabetes Association Alert Day, BHI Urges
Hearing loss is about twice as common in people with diabetes, so the Better Hearing Institute (BHI) is urging people with diabetes to get their hearing checked and to make it a routine part of the their diabetes care and management.
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Nanopores Underlie Our Ability to Tune In a Single Voice
Inner-ear membrane uses tiny pores to mechanically separate sounds, researchers find.
Read MoreNew Study Finds That “Infant Sleep Machines” Can Contribute to Hearing Loss in Babies
A new study led by The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) suggests that “infant sleep machines” (ISMs) are capable of producing hazardous sound levels that may be damaging to infant hearing and auditory development.
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