Hearing loss affects one in six
16 percent of all adult Europeans suffer from a hearing loss.
Fred Churchill is fit, healthy and recently retired. But retirement bliss came with one bitter pill: acknowledging that he had hearing loss. A visit to an audiologist confirmed he had Presbycusis, a gradual, age-related reduction in one’s ability to hear. It took some convincing, but he soon invested in two hearing aids.
“I’m sixty-five, I was sixty-four then. If I’d been ten years older it wouldn’t have been so hard to accept,” he says. |
 At the office
Office workers suffering from hearing loss often have problems with tasks like telephone conversations. | |
Growing up with hearing loss
For all parents, it is important to get to know your child's personality, skills and nature, and as a parent you must also learn as much as possible about hearing loss and your child's particular circumstance.
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24 hours a day
Tinnitus is noises in the head, not related to any psychiatric condition. The noise can be heard anywhere in the head. People who suffer from tinnitus find it very disturbing. | |
One in six
One in six has hearing loss. But just a small minority of people needing hearing aids uses them even though hearing aids can be vital for holding employment and improve quality of life.
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Impressions of hearing loss
There are a number of sound files which you can play to get an impression of what it is like to suffer from hearing loss. You can also hear different examples of what tinnitus can sound like. | |
Ear buds are hazardous
Ear bud headphones pose a danger to hearing. Scientists issues warning against the listening devices.
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Loosing out
One million children and young adults in the US with hearing impairment go without the assistive devices they need. The consequences may be serious, now and for life. | |
Being a musician
Tinnitus or hearing loss, it can result from the booming drums or the blaring guitar amplifiers of a hard-rock group. But it can also result from the violin or the piccolo flute.
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Speech-in-noise test
Try the 5 step speech-in-noise test that will help you determine if you would benefit from wearing hearing aids. | |
History of hearing aids
The first hearing aids were large unwieldy boxes, which took up as much room as a small suitcase. Nothing like today's small digital hearing aids which can be hidden inside the ear with almost perfect sound reproduction.
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| April 2008, Quarterly Newsletter |
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| | French teenagers have it. Italian teenagers have it. Young people all over the world have it. Hearing loss is becoming more and more prevalent at all ages. |
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| | It's been a long road, but worth it |
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| | The most common causes of hearing loss are noise and ageing. |
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| | Personal experiences from people with hearing loss: How did they first realised that they suffered from hearing loss? And what it is like to live with a hearing loss? |
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