Julie Husting began losing her hearing when she was a teenager in high school. For thirty years she wore hearing aids. During that time, her hearing loss deteriorated from moderate to profound until she was relying on lip reading the majority of the time. Hearing aids made sounds louder, but they did not make speech [...]
If you’ve ever seemingly out of the blue experienced hearing loss in one ear, it can be alarming. This condition is called sudden sensorineural hearing loss, or SSNHL, and is an unexplained or rapid loss of hearing — one that is not caused by a “noise trauma,” such as an exploding firecracker right next to [...]
If you or someone you know has never worn hearing aids before, it can be surprising to learn that it can take awhile to get used to them. In addition to learning how they work, you're also grappling with all the new sounds and stimuli that your brain has forgotten about in recent years. What [...]
Did you know that hearing loss is the largest modifiable risk factor for developing dementia...exceeding that of smoking, high blood pressure, lack of exercise and social isolation? From time to time we like to share an article that we feel will help to inform and motivate, especially as it relates to hearing health. Below is [...]
As we go about our day-to-day lives, much of our hearing is on autopilot. All the day long, our brain is processing the sounds our auditory system collects as automatically as we inhale and exhale. In fact, the way we hear is a fascinating and, sometimes mysterious, process. Here are 5 things about your hearing [...]
NPR recently conducted an interview with David Owen, the author of a new book called Volume Control in which he describes our current age as a "deafening" one and explains how the loud noises we live with are harming our ears. Below are excerpts from his book and highlights from the interview that offer an [...]
The findings of a new study published online in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery indicates that even slight declines in hearing, smaller than the usual cutoff for diagnosing hearing loss, are associated with measurable mental decline in seniors. When researchers included participants with mild hearing loss in their study, they found evidence that the well-established [...]
If your child has been diagnosed with hearing loss, the right hearing aids can be vital to their development for language development and educational success. At least two out of every 1,000 children screened for hearing loss in the U.S. are born deaf or with some degree of hearing loss. Other children will develop hearing loss [...]
People with unilateral hearing loss now have the opportunity to hear out of both ears. In July, the FDA approved the use of cochlear implants for single-sided deafness and asymmetric hearing loss for patients 5 years of age and older based on data from a clinical trial conducted by Margaret Dillon, AuD, and the UNC [...]