Twelve years after his first experience with hearing aids, a young man wants to share hope and encourage others who have hearing loss. He has worked with many others to help make his dream a reality. He, his dad and a team of audiologists from Utah State University will administer free hearing tests, hearing aids and sports jerseys to children in Ghana, a country in western Africa.
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Link: http://www.northfulton.com/Articles-COMMUNITY-NEWS-c-2013-05-21-198920.114126-sub-Boy-with-hearing-loss-sends-hearing-aids-abroad.html
Why I Participate: By Parent Partner Wendy Hewitt
When her son Ruger did not pass his newborn hearing screening test, Wendy Hewitt was sent through a complex maze of specialists to get her son the care he needed. Now, 11 years later, Hewitt is an active parent advocate and parent partner in NICHQ’s Improving Hearing Screening & Intervention Systems project.
Link: http://www.nichq.org/stories/ParentStory-WendyHewitt.html
Purdue Innovation Could Help People with Severe Hearing Loss
A Purdue University researcher’s innovation may make it possible for people with severe hearing loss to hear high-frequency sounds. Joshua Alexander, an assistant professor in Purdue’s Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, said conventional hearing aids do not help listeners with severe hearing loss. Alexander discovered what listeners needed to enhance perception in the new pitch range, and then designed an algorithm to accommodate these needs. Read more…
Link: http://www.fortmilltimes.com/2013/05/14/2689795/purdue-innovation-could-help-people.html
Students Create App Designed to Improve Communication
Innovative work is being done by students at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock. Team Verbatim Signers recently designed an application that bridges the gap between the hearing and the deaf by using Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect system, to interpret and translate American Sign Language into both written and spoken text improving two-way communication for the hearing impaired. Read more about their app at the link below.
Link: http://ualr.edu/www/2013/05/07/students-create-app-head-to-microsoft-finals/
Link: http://ualr.edu/www/2013/05/07/students-create-app-head-to-microsoft-finals/
Closed Captioning Glasses Soon to be Available to More than 6000 Cinema Screens
More than 6,000 Regal cinema screens are about to become a lot friendlier to deaf and hearing-impaired moviegoers with the introduction of special closed-captioning glasses made by Sony. The glasses were announced last year, but they will get a major rollout to Regal Entertainment Group theaters this month after a successful test program. That means more than 6,000 screens across the country will offer the technology to deaf and hard-of-hearing customers.
Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57584210-1/closed-captioning-glasses-get-big-rollout-to-cinemas/
Closed Captioning Glasses Soon to be Available to More than 6000 Cinema Screens
More than 6,000 Regal cinema screens are about to become a lot friendlier to deaf and hearing-impaired moviegoers with the introduction of special closed-captioning glasses made by Sony. The glasses were announced last year, but they will get a major rollout to Regal Entertainment Group theaters this month after a successful test program. That means more than 6,000 screens across the country will offer the technology to deaf and hard-of-hearing customers.
Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57584210-1/closed-captioning-glasses-get-big-rollout-to-cinemas/
Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57584210-1/closed-captioning-glasses-get-big-rollout-to-cinemas/
Save the Date for the 22nd International Congress on the Education of the Deaf
The 22nd International Congress on the Education of the Deaf will be held July 6-9, 2015 in Athens, Greece. This is organized by Deaf Studies Unit: University of Patras
Link: http://www.iced2015.com/uc/
Link: http://www.iced2015.com/uc/
Advanced Bionics Enters the World of Rehab Apps for Adults and Assessment Apps for Children
Advanced Bionics (AB), a global leader in cochlear implant technology and a company of the Sonova Group, recently announced the launch of two sophisticated iPad® apps, designed to help adults learning to hear with cochlear implants and hearing professionals working with children.
Link: http://www.heraldonline.com/2013/05/08/4844777/advanced-bionics-enters-the-world.html
An Overview of the Different Types of Hearing Loss
When do people suffer from hearing loss?
Link: http://www.hivehealthmedia.com/an-overview-of-the-different-types-of-hearing-loss/
There are generally five different types of hearing loss, and those are: Sensorineural Hearing Loss, Conductive Hearing Loss, Mixed Hearing Loss, Central Hearing Loss, and Functional Hearing Loss.
Check out the link below to learn more.
Link: http://www.hivehealthmedia.com/an-overview-of-the-different-types-of-hearing-loss/
The May edition of Probes and Tips is now available: Give Yourself a Hand!
May is Better Speech and Hearing month and there is no better time to reflect on how the options for children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing have changed over the decades and how your efforts are shaping the positive prospects for these children.