Signs Your Child Has Hearing Loss
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 1.7 per 1,000 babies screened have hearing loss. While newborn screenings catch the majority of cases in children, certain genetic conditions or progressive hearing loss might not show up in your child until later. Let’s examine some of the signs that may indicate your child…
How Can Teachers Reduce Their Risk of Hearing Loss?
Teachers have a lot to deal with, from lesson planning and grading to budget cuts and overcrowded classrooms. Another thing they have to contend with is loud noise that can lead to occupational hearing loss. Below we review how the classroom can damage the ears and how teachers can reduce their risk of hearing loss….
How Does Hearing Loss Impact Learning in Young People?
Hearing loss can impact a child’s ability to learn in a variety of ways. Whether you’re a concerned parent or a teacher at Gorrie Elementary School, it’s important to be able to identify signs that hearing loss may be holding a child back in class. Children With Hearing Loss Struggle with Speech and Language Skills…
Hearing Loss & Strokes – Is There a Connection?
Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is just as it sounds – a hearing loss that develops rapidly. In most cases, SSNHL develops within a three-day timespan and affects only one ear. The experience can be frightening, especially when you know that SSNHL puts you at an increased risk of stroke. What the Studies Show A…
How Often Should You Get a Hearing Test?
You probably already know that hearing loss can affect your ability to converse and communicate. But did you also know that, left untreated, hearing loss is associated with depression, anxiety, falls and even dementia? Fortunately, hearing aids can prevent or delay these conditions. Before you can be fit with a set of hearing aids, you…
Surprising Benefits of Hearing Aids
Roughly 30 million Americans are suffering from hearing loss, but only a fraction of people who would benefit from hearing aids are currently using them. This is unfortunate not only because hearing aids help you better comprehend speech and sound, but they have many other surprising benefits as well. Less Anxiety and Depression People who…
What is Noise Induced Hearing Loss?
How Can Sounds Hurt Your Ears? Background sound is a constant in our busy lives. Normally, background noises are at safe levels that do not negatively impact our hearing. But repeated exposure to noise above 85 decibels (dB) can cause noise induced hearing loss. The louder the sound, the less amount of time it takes…
What is Sudden Hearing Loss?
For most people who experience hearing loss, the condition comes on gradually over a period of years. In rare cases, an abrupt loss of hearing occurs with little or no warning. This condition is known as sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL). What is Sudden Deafness? Sudden deafness is an unexplained and rapid hearing loss that…
What is Unilateral Hearing Loss?
What is Single Sided Deafness? Sometimes referred to as unilateral hearing loss, single sided deafness is a condition in which an individual experiences hearing loss in only one ear but can hear normally out of the other ear. While most patients with a hearing impairment suffer from bilateral (two-sided) hearing loss, SSD affects approximately 60,000…