Hearing loss affects one in six
16 percent of all adult Europeans suffer from a hearing loss.
| Your hearing ability may contribute to how well you function in your daily life around relatives, friends and colleagues. It is of great importance to be aware of possible hearing limitations and seek treatment early on to deal effectively with any hearing loss. Untreated hearing loss may affect your social life, lower your quality of life and cause mental anguish. |
 Loves her hearing aid
When Anne Vibeke Friis Nielsen realized that she had lost some of her hearing, she immediately decided to get a hearing aid. | |
How to help
Do you have a family member or a friend with an undiagnosed hearing loss? Then you can do a lot to help.
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Risky MP3 players
Personal stereos cause hearing damage in high numbers of listeners, especially among young people. | |
Babies with hearing loss
It is never easy for parents to be told that their newborn is hearing impaired. Most often, it is shocking news.
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Tinnitus and Hearing loss
Almost all people with tinnitus also suffer from hearing loss. Just one in 123 tinnitus patients suffered no hearing loss.
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One in six
One in six has hearing loss. But only some of those who need hearing aids use them even though they can improve quality of life.
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Teaching is a noisy job
It seems that children and adolescents make more noise than bulldozers, machines and jackhammers. | |
Lighter - smaller - better
The first hearing aids were large boxes, which took up as much room as a small suitcase. They were nothing like today's small hearing aids.
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Protect your ears
The best defense against noise-induced hearing loss is to stay out of noisy areas or to use hearing protection. | |
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.
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| July 2008, Quarterly Newsletter: |
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| | Hearing aid technology is constantly evolving and becoming increasingly advanced. The progress allows for increasing numbers of sophisticated features to be built into the hearing aids. |
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| | Please spend 5 minutes telling us about your experience with hearing impairment. |
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| | The most common causes of hearing loss are noise and ageing. |
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| | John Callaway: It's been a long road, but worth it. |
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| | Test your knowledge in the quiz - 19 questions on hearing loss and hearing. |
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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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