Latest Stories on Hearing and HIs - January 31st 2009

Hearing The Customers
TMC Net - Norwalk,CT,USA
... signal processor- based audio processor improves incoming call quality
by using firmware developed originally for hearing aids to improve audio
quality. ...

Being deaf is no obstacle for Stewartville High School senior
Post-Bulletin - Rochester,MN,USA
Legally half deaf, Bell uses a combination of hearing aids, lip-reading and
ingenuity to succeed in any situation, making him one of eight area
students ...

Quota plans 90-year legacy event
Bismarck Tribune - ND, USA
Today, it collects used hearing aids and financial support for "Be a North
Dakota Hear-O," a service that provides new hearing aids for qualified
people and ...

Wake-up call at travel agents over hearing
Huddersfield Examiner - Huddersfield,UK
RNID said deaf people were four times more likely than other people to be
unemployed – while only 1.4m of the 2m people with hearing aids use them
regularly ...

Overcoming adversity
Eudora News - Eudora,KS,USA
He also uses hearing aids but must take them out before each match. By Jeff
Deters It’s 3:23 pm and seven minutes until the freshmen wrestling
tournament at ...

Find the Best Hearing Aid at the Best Price
Best Syndication - Pinon Hills,CA,USA
Additionally, these hearing aids are typically a repackaging of last year's
model with a new name and branded features which aim at deflecting
attention to ...

Nothing Stops Them
Vienna/Oakton Connection - VA,USA
All of her friends at her new school have hearing aids, she said, just like
her. Her older brother helped her write her "beautiful speech. ...

Now you can even recycle your old hearing aids
Midweek Herald - UK
MORE than 50 people in the Third World can hear again - thanks to an
innovative recycling scheme in Honiton. Others are set to benefit in the
future as ...

THE VENT
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
I wear hearing aids. My wife’s hearing is perfect. Nothing is more
aggravating than when she asks “Do you hear that? Do you hear that?”
“Hear what? ...

Children to receiving hearing aids
The Desert Sun - Palm Springs,CA,USA
Medical officials will fit more than 70 children with new, digital hearing
instruments for free on Feb. 21. Minnesota-based Starkey Hearing Foundation
...

Hearing impaired students team up for musical performances
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA
“(The program) makes me feel more involved … even though I have a
disability,” said Ashley, who wears hearing aids and communicates through
speech, ...

Area family dealing with genetic disorder
Register-Herald - Eaton,OH,USA
So affected, in fact, she wears hearing aids. Kerns and husband Chris, who
live in Lakengren, have four children together, three of whom have picked
up some ...

Smith Sends Loud And Clear Message
The Morning News - Springdale,AR,USA
Also always there, always noticeable are the hearing aids that snap on to
her head, just behind her ears. Smith, you see, was born with a rare
genetic ...

Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing works with families
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA
Christine Lindmark recalls that during early therapy sessions, she would
cover her mouth and ask Wade, who wears hearing aids, to repeat sounds she
made in ...

Latest Stories on Cochlear Implants - January 31st 2009

New Year, New Hope For Deaf People: NICE Guidance Supports ...
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
2009 sees the 20th anniversary of the UK's first multi-channel cochlear
implant being given to Michael Batt, deafened by meningitis, here in
Nottingham and ...

NICE Recommends Cochlear Implants In New Guidance Published Today
UK Medical News Today (press release) - UK
Society also benefits through significant reductions in costs relating to
the welfare and support that hearing impaired adults without a cochlear
implant ...

Hard to bring down
Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA
By rule, Zach has to take his cochlear implant and hearing aids out before
every match. So when he wrestles, he is deaf. Shouting him instructions
does no ...

Surgery helps 1-yr-old kid to hear, speak
Times of India - India
SURAT: Cochlear implant surgery was performed successfully on a
one-year-old hearing impaired child to enable the kid to hear and speak at
a city hospital ...

Toddler seeks help for ear surgery
GulfNews - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
By Bassma Al Jandaly, Staff Reporter Abu Dhabi: A toddler who lost her
hearing a short time after she was born urgently needs a cochlear implant...

Reporter's notebook: Reflections on witnessing an amazing journey
Suburban Life Publications - Batavia,IL,USA
She wanted to know if I was interested in following a pediatric cochlear
implant case. I triumphantly notified my editor that we could scratch off
our No. ...

Latest Stories on Cochlear Implants - January 25th 2009

Cochlear Implant Helps Blackfoot Man Hear
KPVI-TV - Pocatello,ID,USA
A deaf and blind man from Blackfoot can now hear, thanks to a group of ISU
students' generous donation of a Cochlear implant. Bill Jones, Received
Cochlear ...

Deaf pianist's show combines music and a talk on hearing loss
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison,WI,USA
"It's built up more since I got the cochlear implant in 2002, and I could
function on the telephone. I hear very little with my hearing aid, but it
enriches ...

Sounding out life's future challenges
Bundaberg NewsMail - Australia
Since the Bundaberg teenager's cochlear implant was turned on about a year
ago she has been busy re-adjusting to a world of sound. ...

Brighton native nominated for Academy Award
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
... her first feature-length film, , about her parents, Paul and Sally
Taylor of Sodus, Wayne County, who decided later in life to have a cochlear
implant. ...

Sequential Bilateral Cochlear Implant
OR-Live - West Harford,CT,USA
Cleveland - On Tuesday, February 24th, watch a Sequential Bilateral
Cochlear Implant performed from University Hospitals Case Medical Center
Rainbow Babies ...

US Surgeons Work To Restore Iraqi Boy's Lost Hearing From Missile
WTVY - Dothan,AL,USA
The boy was brought to San Francisco from Iraq to have a Cochlear Implant
installed. The implant is a device that turns sound waves into electronic
signals. ...

To hear rain fall: Local gospel singer hears again for the first ...
Anderson Independent Mail - Anderson,SC,USA
White recently regained her hearing after receiving a cochlear implant. The
sound of her voice lifts off the record player sitting underneath the front
...

Children's Picture Book on Cochlear Implants
Advance for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists - King of Prussia,PA,USA
Abby Gets a Cochlear Implant , a new children's picture book, was
introduced at the American Academy of Audiology Annual Convention in
Charlotte , NC in ...

Iraqi Boy’s Surgery Successful
KCBS - CA,USA
... group of reporters, Ghazwan squirmed and sat uncomfortably as he wore a
large bandage over his right ear where doctors had inserted a cochlear
implant. ...

Make it truly special
Hindu - Chennai,India
Hari underwent a cochlear implant surgery at two years and attended
intensive speech therapy. His language skills improved at a considerable
pace and by age ...

Latest Stories on Hearing and HIs - January 25th 2009

North Essex: hearing aid queues are shrinking
Harwich and Manningtree Standard - UK
WAITING times for hearing aids have been slashed by more than
three-quarters in the past year in north Essex. The average waiting time is
now 18 weeks from ...

Olathe woman writes fiction novel about hearing loss
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
She spent two years in denial, refusing to buy hearing aids and making up
white lies to disguise her hearing loss. Pride and fear, she said, kept her
from ...

Corzine honors girl who sparked "Grace's Law" requiring hearing ...
NJ.com - NJ,USA
Gleba, a hearing-impaired Warren County girl, was the inspiration behind
Grace's Law, which calls for health insurers to pay $1000 per ear for
hearing aids. ...

Cochlear Implants in the Classroom
Advance for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists - King of Prussia,PA,USA
The certified auditory-verbal therapist specializes in teaching listening
skills to children with hearing aids and cochlear implants. ...

Living with hearing loss
Morden Times - Morden,Manitoba,Canada
Without hearing assistance (hearing aids), I am almost totally deaf. On a
word recognition test with hearing aids only, I only scored 16 per cent,
...

Constant Ringing in Your Ears? Hearing Aids Offer Hope
Atlantic News Telegraph - Atlantic,IA,USA
The good news is treatment, including hearing aids, can offer relief to
some suffering the persistent ringing, buzzing or humming associated with
tinnitus, ...

Something to shout about
Building.co.uk - UK
With the exception of hearing aids, which amplify sounds, the advice given
to sufferers was simply to accept your lot and cope with it as best you
could. ...

Latest Stories on Hearing and HIs - January 14th, 2009

Lip Reading Academy Opens Classes In Chattanooga
The Chattanoogan - Chattanooga,TN,USA
People who wear hearing aids and their spouses will benefit greatly from
The Master’s Lip Reading Academy classes, where communication strategies
and coping ...

Got an ear full? Here’s some advice
Buffalo News - NY, United States
Hearing aids, which block the normal migration of earwax out of the ear,
may also stimulate glands in the ear canal to produce more secretions. ...

Review by Christian Perring
Metapsychology - Oakdale,NY,USA
Bates can no longer hear what people are saying when he is not wearing his
hearing aids, and even when he has them in, it is often hard for him to
decipher ...

Elgin firm sets up foundation for needy
The Courier News - Elgin,IL,USA
He wished he could always wear the hearing aids, but his family could not
afford them since insurance would not cover his pre-existing condition. ...

Latest Stories on Hearing and HIs - January 12th, 2009

Chick Wit: Hearing aids, bras: Tactical weapons
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
By Lisa Scottoline History is littered with famous battles, but even the
biggest pale in comparison with the battles in the Scottoline household
when my ...

Bledsoe: Hear what I hear? Maybe not
Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville,TN,USA
I'll be writing a review of hearing aids soon. News-Sentinel entertainment
writer Wayne Bledsoe writes about gadgets for FYI. ...

Tiny NVE sensors make big profits
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
The stock of NVE Corp., the Eden Prairie-based maker of electronic sensors
for pacemakers, hearing aids and factory automation equipment, rose in 2008
-- up ...

American Sign Language (ASL)Rocklin and Roseville Today - Rocklin,CA,USA
Now 10, Philip attends Indiana School for the Deaf as a day student and
wears hearing aids to capture some sounds. He is "a very sweet, happy" boy,
...

Latest Stories on Hearing and HIs - January 11th, 2009

LTC123: Can you hear me now?
Wicked Local Mattapoisett - Plymouth,MA,USA
A major reason is economic; hearing aids are expensive and not covered by
Medicare. Frustration with hearing aids that didn’t work well in the past
can also ...

Excuse me what did you say?
Charlevoix Courier - Charlevoix,MI,USA
Hearing aids improve relationships-at least that’s what the book I was
asked to read is telling me. You will find yourself not saying “excuse
me” so much ...

Hearing Aid Myths
Greenwood Today - Greenwood,SC,USA
The reactions to wearing hearing aids are often quite extreme. Some believe
that hearing aids are only for “old people” while others believe that
they do ...

Lions from around the state gather in New BernENC Today - Jacksonville,NC,USA
Lions also recycle hearing aids, glasses and other communication devices,
with profits going to provide eye glasses for individuals. ...

Beavers, Timbers Further Efforts to Impact Community
Our Sports Central (press release) - Marshfield,WI,USA
More than 138 hearing aids have been donated through this program over the
past three years. On the soccer pitch, the Timbers and First Tech Credit
Union ...

Hearing aid bill signed into law
Plain Dealer - Blackwood,NJ,USA
I am glad that New Jersey children are going to never have to be without
hearing aids, now that this is a law," said Tyler Weatherby. ...

Latest Stories on Hearing and HIs - January 7th, 2009

Hearing aid user clinicsBexley Times - London,England,UK
Hi Kent, a charity that works throughout Kent, are offering people with NHS
hearing aids the chance to drop in and have their aids cleaned and fitted
with ...

Sounding out musical talent중앙데일리 - South Korea
All the kids in the room are hearing impaired to varying degrees and wear
cochlear implants that, unlike hearing aids, stimulate auditory nerves to
improve ...

Study on golf driver sounds more a bust than a sonic boom
Examiner.com - USA
"As one who does wear hearing aids because of the effect of too much
unprotected live rock music in my 20s on my hearing, I found (the study) at
least to be ...

Hearing aids were a reluctant purchase but a sound decisionThe Republican - MassLive.com - Springfield,MA,USA
I've been wearing hearing aids for several years now. It was a big
decision. Prior to purchasing them I was convinced that as long as I could
say "huh? ...

Latest Stories on Cochlear Implants - January 4th, 2009

An innovative preschoolTMCnet - USA
Jeff Simmons, the center's cochlear implant clinical coordinator, said the
devices don't restore normal hearing. "But in many cases," he said,
"students can ...

Latest Stories on Hearing and HIs - January 4th, 2009

Sonic youth
South China Morning Post (subscription) - Hong Kong
Senior audiologist Kam Ping-kay of the Phonak Hearing Centre Hong Kong
describes these music devices as risky. "Toddlers don't know how to tell
their ...

A Heart Of Gold
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
The state mandated that state and private health insurance plans cover
children’s hearing aids. The plans will be required to pay up to $1000
per ear every ...

Hearing-impaired brothers thriving on mat
Ashland Times Gazette - Ashland,OH,USA
Both Jake and Nick are hearing impaired, and even with their hearing aids,
neither can hear much. Since most do not know sign language, both have
become ...

Clinton daughter's letter wins hearing aid for ‘Poppi’Clinton Times & Courier - MA, USA
Stanley “Poppi” Tuttle, 64, recently won a pair of Beltone Electronics Corp.’s most advanced hearing aids. Tuttle, a former design engineer who retired
due to a disability, was the winner of a letter writing contest sponsored
by ...

Latest Stories on Hearing and HIs - January 1st, 2009

A grateful father can hear the difference
Worcester Telegram - Worcester,MA,USA
“I’ve been given the gift of hearing, and I was speechless about it,”
the usually chatty grandfather said of his $7700 Beltone hearing aids —
the best you ...

83-year-old Billionaire Cochlear Implant Entrepreneur Dishes Out Business Advice

Mann Power
Los Angeles, California
Smart Business
November 2005

Al Mann, the billionaire founder of Advanced Bionics (cochlear implants), dishes out management wisdom in this profile by Laura Taxel. Mann founded several companies among them Spectrolab (electrooptical systems, 1956 - today a subsidiary of Boeing), Heliotek (semiconductors, spacecraft solar cells), Pacesetter Systems (pacemakers, sold to St. Jude Medical), MiniMed (insulin pumps, sold to Medtronics), Mannkind Corporation, Second Sight, Bioness, Quallion, and Stellar Microelectronics.

Referring to the major elements required to create a successful business enterprise, Mann says, "Capital is most important, I can’t emphasize that enough...The failure of most promising businesses is usually due to inadequate funds for the start-up and early growth phase of the enterprise."

Latest Stories on Cochlear Implants - January 1st, 2009 (!)

Injured Iraqi boy arrives in Bay Area for surgery
Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USA
The Iraq Action Group, the Ruth Group and numerous volunteers were able to
secure for free a $75000 cochlear implant device, the skills of surgeon Dr.
Larry ...


Injured 3-Yr Old Iraqi Boy Arrives For Treatment
CBS 5 - San Francisco,CA,USA
Dr. Lawrence Lustig, director of the UCSF Douglas Gran Cochlear Implant
Center, will perform the operation pro bono, according to Lowenthal. ...


Iraqi boy to have surgery in SF
abc7news.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
He will be staying at Ronald McDonald House while he goes through a
cochlear implant at UCSF. Doctor Lawrence Lustig is waiving his fee. ...


Ear op opens up world of sound for Leeds youngster
Yorkshire Evening Post - Leeds,England,UK
By Katie Baldwin The lively five-year-old was born profoundly deaf and did
not speak until a cochlear implant gave her hearing in one ear. ...