Forty years ago, a renowned otolaryngologist asked his wife for help in raising the funds needed to help deaf children hear. That day, Dr. Simon Parisier and his wife, Elaine created The Children’s Hearing Institute with the shared goal of not only restoring hearing to deaf children, but teaching them how to interpret sound and...
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Soundprint is an intuitive app that allows people who are hard of hearing to find a restaurant or other location that is at their preferred volume level. For each location, there is an estimated DB level for that hour on that day of the week. Users submit sound level measurements to the app, and then...
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NY Assembly Bill A5035A There is a bill in the New York assembly that would mandate insurance coverage for hearing aids for children with hearing loss. I wrote a letter of support for a very similar bill in Oregon. In 2018, Oregon passed a bill which required insurance companies to cover audiology care and equipment...
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My name is Brendan. I have hearing loss, so I wear cochlear implants. I, like most kids, love to ride roller coasters, and cochlear implants shouldn’t stop us from doing that. So, I will share a few tips for not losing them on a ride. First, if a ride is very mild, and you can...
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A true Hearing “Hear-O” at only 18 years of age, Elisaul Then Lugo is already a remarkable young man. He is a loving son and brother, an extremely hard worker, a high school honor roll student, and without his cochlear implant, he is deaf. When Elisaul was born, he was completely deaf in his right...
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“Can Your Baby Hear You?” asked the pamphlet tucked into my hospital discharge papers. “Of course he can,” I thought as I tossed the pamphlet into my bag and left the room to join my husband and newborn son. Like many first-time parents, I had worried about a number of things during my pregnancy- Will...
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I have been fortunate to have worked in this field long enough to have seen amazing changes. When I started more than 50 years ago, children where not identified until their parents observed that they were not developing speech and language. Usually at about 18 months. They were fit with hearing aids which provided limited...
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With today’s technology there is no reason why virtually every child with hearing loss should not be able to hear. It is the responsibility of the audiologist to be sure that the child is hearing. It is not okay to assume that a child with hearing loss is hearing well enough just because he has...
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