Posts tagged with "hearing loss"

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Puro Pro Headphone Review

By: Emily Bunn  Calling all audiophiles! The Puro Pro Hybrid Active Noise Cancelling Volume Limited Headphones with Built-In Mic are the newest audio accoutrement that will sound like music to your ears, literally. Listen to today’s top hits, like Gwen Stefani’s “Slow Clap” feat. Saweetie, or The Weeknd’s “Save Your Tears” feat. Ariana Grande. With […]

Protecting a Kid’s Hearing

For America’s youth, hearing loss is a growing epidemic. “As many as 16% of teens (ages 12  to 19) have reported some hearing loss that could have been caused by loud noise,” according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. The driving force of this growth is that 50% of teens and young adults […]

CHILDREN × HEARING LOSS

Have Your Child Screened by an Audiologist if You Suspect Hearing Loss As children get back to school, keep in mind that academic struggles may be a sign of hearing loss   According to the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, about two to three out of every 1,000 […]

The Listening Project

Next month, the American Cochlear Implant Alliance will host the premiere of The Listening Project, a documentary co-created by renowned audiologist Jane Madell and Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky. The film profiles 15 young adults who were born deaf but can now hear, thanks to cutting-edge technologies, including cochlear implants.   “The Listening Project shows that nothing is […]