A Japanese study has shown that the use of hearing aids has significant effects for tinnitus. All the participants in the study reported significant effects of hearing aids for their tinnitus. The participants in the study had both hearing loss and tinnitus and were fitted with hearing aids. Read on: https://www.hear-it.org/hearing-aids-help-tinnitus
Delivering healthy genetic material into the inner ear cells of mice with a genetic defect that causes deafness enables the cells to function normally, according to a new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU). The novel treatment prevented the gradual deterioration of hearing in these mice. It could lead to a breakthrough in treating children […]
One in two deaf children in England are not getting necessary specialist teaching support since returning to school in September, The Independent can reveal, amid warnings that pupils with hearing loss are at risk of falling behind. Before the pandemic, about two-thirds (67 per cent) of deaf children usually had visits from a teacher of […]
Tuukka Kettunen, studying at the University of Oulu has made an abridged version of his thesis, A comparative investigation into the various assisted listening technologies that are available to hard of hearing students within physical places of learning, available to IHLMA members. The thesis seeks to identify and study the kinds of challenges faced by […]
Organisations without hearing loop systems for the deaf, could be excluding one in six potential customers. As well as making business sense, being accessible to the 12 million people with some form of hearing loss is also a legal requirement under the Equality Act 2010 and Disability Discrimination Act in Northern Ireland. When installed correctly, […]