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Hearing tests are usually administered to evaluate the sensitivity of hearing of a person experiencing hearing problems, someone who already suffers from a hearing impairment, or as a routine check of an infant or young child’s development. What is essentially tested is the patient’s ability to hear by measuring the ability of sound reaching the [...]

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Hearing, even in children’s formative years, is vital to the foundations of language and socialisation they will rely on for a lifetime. New technologies in a mainstream classroom setting can facilitate the education of students with hearing loss much more significantly than could have been done in the past. Whereas interpreters were necessary for hearing [...]

Coping With Hearing Impairment at School

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16,500 Australian workers filed and won their claims of permanent hearing loss due to their work environment. Hearing aids are but one measure your physician might suggest. However, although hearing loss is a common problem worldwide, 80% of sufferers avoid even the suggestion of using a hearing aid because of embarrassment and the added expense, [...]

Only 1 of 5 Suffering from Hearing Loss opt for Hearing Aids

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Since the first three years of our life are so imperative to developing normal speech and what’s more, develop language, any hearing loss in infants must be quickly identified and treated. However, early identification of hearing loss in infants requires not only a comprehensive medical examination by a physician but also a hearing test. Moreover, [...]

Hearing Loss in Infants

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From interacting with co-workers during meetings at work to catching up with your spouse and kids at home, hearing loss, whatever degree, does indeed negatively impact your day-to-day relationships, business and social interactions. If you are curious how a conversation “sounds” to the hearing impaired, check out this video: Frustrating, isn’t it? Unfortunately, almost 50% [...]

How Does Hearing Loss Affect you?

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Hearing disability in older Australians affects about 654,113 people age 55 and above, who have reported difficulty in communicating (71%) and having to rely on hearing aids (60%) in their later years. Symptoms vary from small, not hearing certain sounds, to extreme, being clinically deaf. Unfortunately, hearing loss can be attributed to ageing as we [...]

Hearing Loss Due to Ageing

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Noise-induced hearing loss in the work environment is also called “occupational noise-induced hearing loss.” (ONIHL) poses a major crisis among the Australian workforce with almost 16,500 workers successfully receiving compensation from 2002-2007 for industrial deafness, permanent hearing loss caused by noise in the work environment. Furthermore, the problem is not only financial but also linked [...]

Hearing Loss in the Workplace

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22 % of adults in Australia suffer a considerable level of hearing loss. What’s more, it has negative effects on their quality of life both at home and at work. For example, individuals with hearing loss might be perceived as inattentive because they don’t tune in and respond normally when spoken to. They might also [...]

How Can Hearing Loss Affect Your Life?

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The human ear can hear sounds as faint as 0 decibels (decibels being the standard measure for the intensity of sound). On the other, humans have also heard sounds as loud as 180 decibels such as the noise during a rocket launch. However, on a daily basis, we are surrounded by noises like conversations at [...]

How Loud Is Too Loud?

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Even kids with hearing loss in one ear can go through overwhelming challenges in their early academic life since hearing loss can significantly impair their ability to understand language and speak. As a result, hearing loss in kids can hurt vital cognitive development emotional development social development in just their first few years. Surprisingly, it [...]

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