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• Hearing Impaired Children – A Specially Designed Website
  Oticon, the pioneer in hearing aid manufacture, has a long tradition of offering special services to children with impaired hearing. Expansion of the OtiKids web site to include a new section especially for 4 to 12 year old children marks the beginning of a new stage in Oticon’s excellent service to hearing impaired children. This new web site section offers many attractions for the hearing impaired child. In this website, entertainment and children's hearing-related information go together.
  Author: William Pensworth - Date: May 14, 2005



• Hearing Loss Technology – Stunning New Advancements
  ScanSoft Inc. and Teltronics are working together to provide computer based hearing loss technology solutions for people who are hard of hearing. These hearing loss technologies make independent two-way personal communication possible for those with hearing loss.
  Author: William Pensworth - Date: September 18, 2005



• Improved Hearing Devices – An Improved Quality Of Life
  Hearing dysfunction in seniors is considered normal: there is a widely accepted supposition that this demographic segment of people simply do not need to enhance hearing as well as younger people. This belief is obviously outdated and the cochlear implant device offers the elderly a chance to improve their quality of life. These improved hearing devices have long been a treatment for severe to profound sensorineural or nerve hearing loss in children and younger to middle-aged adults, with greater advantages over traditional listening aids.
  Author: William Pensworth - Date: May 22, 2005



• Hearing Aid Implants – Study Shows Dramatic Results
  Research on hearing loss issues show that expanding the criteria for cochlear implants is certainly warranted. Older people with hearing aid implants find a significant increase in speech perception and improvement in listening quality. Studies indicate that the duration of deafness and age of implantation are important factors for the success for this hearing aid implant. Consequently, many believed that these hearing aids would not provide a significant impact in overall communication abilities for the congenitally deaf.
  Author: William Pensworth - Date: May 24, 2005



• Hearing Loss Statistics – Know The Numbers
  Hearing impairment is an underestimated health problem in Europe and is the third leading chronic disability following arthritis and hypertension. Hearing loss statistics indicate that 6% of the European population suffers from hearing disorders - 22.5 million Europeans suffer from some form of hearing losses with 2 million people profoundly deaf. A well established hearing loss statistic states that over 50% of all hearing disabilities are caused by genetic factor. Over the last 7 years, the European Commission has routed more than €10 million into research on different aspects of hearing losses. All in all, the financial burden of hearing impairment in Europe has been estimated to be €78 billion per year. These stats take into account annual costs for special education, speech therapy, hearing aids, physician and specialists’ fees, and other expenses.
  Author: William Pensworth - Date: May 26, 2005



• Hearing Aid Plans – A Review Of What Is Available
  Subequent to a review of the existing MS & E benefit plans, the range of benefits provided by the NIHB program remains the same although additional benefit codes have been added to the Audiology Benefit List. These hearing aid plans are to enable the NIHB Program to perform comprehensive benefit utilization analysis and audit activities. The hearing aid plan categories include all types of hearing devices from conventional Analog Hearing Aid devices to Bone Conduction Hearing Aid devices.
  Author: William Pensworth - Date: August 17, 2005



• Hearing Loss Sciences – Ways To Grow Healthy Ear Cells
  Scientists have found a way to control the development of stem cells in the inner ears of embryonic chickens, and the finding could lead to better ways to treat diseases that cause deafness and vertigo in humans.
  Author: Trent Offer - Date: December 22, 2003