Category: Coping
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HearUSA Hires NFL Coaching Legend Don Shula To Promote Hearing Aids
HearUSA, he rapidly growing conglomerator of hearing-aid retail stores across the U.S., has hired Don Shula, the legendary former coach of the National Football League’s Miami Dolphins, to promote hearing aids among active Baby Boomers.
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Tell Your Congressional Reps To Support Hearing-Aid Tax Credits
It’s time to call your U.S. Senators and Representatives again to tell them to support the Hearing Aid Tax Credit – a $500 tax break for first-time buyers of hearing aids. This is the third year in a row bills have been introduced in both the Senate (S. 1410) and House (H.R. 2329). So far…
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Untreated Hearing Loss Will Take A Huge Bite Out Of Your Income
The Better Hearing Institute found that Americans with untreated hearing loss earned less income than people with normal hearing to the tune of $23,000 a year, on average, or over $100 billion a year nationwide.
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Sleeping Through Smoke Detector Alarm Can Get Hard-Of-Hearing Killed
A recent report from the National Fire Protection Research Foundation entitled “Optimizing Fire Alarm Notification for High Risk Groups” found that many of the most common types of smoke-detector alarms failed to work adequately on test subjects who were hearing impaired.
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NBA Basketball Legend Kevin McHale Supports Cochlear Implants For Kids
Basketball great Kevin McHale founded the Help Me Hear Foundation to provide cochlear implants for children.
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My Dad's Hearing Loss Is A Challenge Our Family Confronted Together
The loss of Dad’s hearing was not only a challenge that he had to overcome, but a challenge for everyone in the family.
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Introducing Jake Copithorne, Our Summer Intern At Hearing Mojo
The more news, information and stories we post on Hearing Mojo, the more interest there is in the site. Traffic has doubled in recent months and a lot of readers have emailed. Keeping a blog fed can take up a lot of time, so I’ve brought in some help this summer. My son Jake is…
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Josh Swiller Can Tell You Exactly What It's Like To Be Hard-Of-Hearing
Josh Swiller, who started an excellent blog several years ago about what it’s like to get a cochlear implant, wrote a great article for the New York Times Sunday Magazine today that may be the best description I’ve read of what it’s like to be hard-of-hearing.
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Tinnnitus Masking Device Reduces Unwanted Noise In Your Ears
I saw an old friend at an industry function recently who had what I thought were a new pair of hearing aids in his ears, but which on closer inspection were something different entirely. He told me he’s started suffering from a very bad case of tinnitus — unwanted noise or ringing in the ears…
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American Medical Association Studies Apple iPod Ear-Bud Volume Warning
The American Medical Association (AMA) will consider recommendations to make to manufacturers, regulators and consumers on dealing with the threat of hearing loss from Apple iPods and other portable music players with in-the-ear headphones.