Category: Coping
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I'm Still Waiting For CapTel Captioned Telephone Service In Massachusetts
Last night I finally got some answers to my questions about why CapTel’s captioned telephone service still isn’t available in my home state of Massachusetts.
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CapTel Phone Captioning Now Available In 32 States
With Sprint Nextel’s recent announcement of the addition of CapTel Relay Service in New Hampshire, the real-time telephone captioning service is now available in 32 states.
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London "Hearwear" Exhibit Shows Off High-Fashion Hearing-Aid Designs
A group of collaborators in the UK is bringing high fashion to hearing aids with an upcoming exhibit at one of the world’s leading museums for design, the Victoria & Albert (V&A) in London.
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European Union To Employers: Quiet Down!!
With the World Health Organization declaring noise-induced hearing loss as one of the world’s most prevalent, irreversible industrial diseases, the EU has passed strict new regulations requiring employers to quiet down their workplaces or face stiff penalties.
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Only 12.9% Of U.S. Doctors Screen For Patient Hearing Loss At Annual Checkups
Only 12.9 percent of physicians in the U.S. routinely screen patients for hearing loss during annual physicals.
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Hard-of-Hearing Population Tops 30 Million In U.S., With More Than 20 Million Untreated
The total population of Americans with hearing problems topped 30 million in 2004, according to the Better Hearing Institute’s seventh update to its landmark MarketTrak hearing-aid adoption survey.
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Visor Card Can Eliminate Confusion With Police
What happens when you’re in an emergency situation and need to hear directions, such as where the fire exits are? Worse, what happens in a potential conflict with an authority figure — an uptight airport security screener, for instance — who is giving you orders you can’t hear?
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"Musical Ear" Auditory Hallucinations Finally Get A Medical Diagnosis In The New York Times
A long article in the Science section of the New York Times, Neuron Network Goes Awry And Brain Becomes An Ipod, provides a fascinating look at the first research study that’s been done on auditory hallucinations.
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Good Design Trumps All Else, Even In The Portable Bed-Shaker Market
OK, I finally bought the bed shaker I was stressing about in a post a few weeks ago.
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In Memoriam: Jack Kilby Made Today's Hearing Aids Possible
It’s a little-known fact that Jack Kilby, the inventor of the microchip, was also a hearing-aid pioneer. The Texas Instruments engineer and Nobel Prize winner’s death yesterday at the age of 81 has spurred a slew of stories about the invention of the integrated circuit and the dawn of the computer age.