Phonak Sponsors Child’s Voice Golf Tournament
For the second straight year, Phonak announced its sponsorship of the Child’s Voice Golf Tournament on June 11 at the Arrowhead Golf Club in Wheaton, Ill. Now in its 14th year, the annual golf outing...
View ArticleFinnish Researchers Develop Guidelines for Using Music to Develop Spoken...
Finnish researchers have compiled guidelines for international use for utilizing music to support the development of spoken language. The guidelines are suitable for the parents of children with...
View ArticleSensorion Receives European Medicines Agency Approval for PIP on Hearing Loss...
Sensorion (FR0012596468 – ALSEN) a biopharmaceutical company that specializes in the development of novel therapies to restore, treat, and prevent inner ear diseases such as hearing loss, tinnitus,...
View ArticleTeen Publishes Research on Harmful Noise Levels from Restroom Hand Dryers
A 13-year-old girl recently published her research involving the loudness of hand dryers in public restrooms in the journal of the Canada Pediatric Society, according to a New York Times article. Nora...
View ArticleResearchers Develop ‘Optimized’ Gene-Editing System to Help Prevent Hearing...
Researchers have altered the genes of mice with genetic hearing loss to be able to preserve their hearing, according to an article in The Harvard Gazette. Utilizing a more “precise” version of the...
View ArticleAG Bell Holds Research Symposium to Address Childhood Hearing Loss
The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AG Bell)—which was founded by Dr Alexander Graham Bell, best known for inventing the telephone—announced that it held its...
View ArticleThe Center for Hearing and Speech Appoints Kyle Swift as CEO
After an extensive search, The Center for Hearing and Speech—a United Way of Greater Houston agency offering resources for pediatric hearing loss—announced that Kyle Swift has been selected as the...
View ArticleSensorion Receives IND Clearance from FDA on Hearing Loss Drug
Sensorion (ALSEN.PA) (FR0012596468 – ALSEN), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company which specializes in the development of novel therapies to restore, treat, and prevent inner ear diseases such as...
View ArticleThe University of Miami Hosts 16th Symposium on Cochlear Implants in Children
Cochlear implants are changing the lives of children like Kennedy Patlan. Born in Dallas and raised in Miami, Patlan received a cochlear implant more than 20 years ago, and became the first deaf...
View ArticleAuditec Releases Spanish Pediatric Picture Identification Test (SPPIT) and...
The Spanish Pediatric Picture Identification Test (SPPIT) Testing the growing population of native Spanish-speaking children seen in audiology clinics can be a challenge to the audiologist without...
View ArticleRick J. Caruso and Idina Menzel Support ‘Let California Kids Hear’ Campaign
Award-winning actress and musician Idina Menzel and Caruso Founder and Chief Executive Officer Rick J. Caruso hosted a press conference on August 12 in support of “Let California Kids Hear,” a...
View ArticleUniversity of Warwick Launches Standardized Tool to Assess Cognitive,...
A new paper published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health and co-authored by a University of Warwick researcher provides standardized scores for The Parent Report of Children’s Abilities...
View ArticleUK Charity Issues Warning That Deaf Children Are Being ‘Left Behind’
Deaf children across England are struggling at every stage of their education because of “a lifetime of being left behind,” according to an announcement posted on the UK-based National Deaf Children’s...
View ArticleMarvel 2.0 Makes RogerDirect Available in All Phonak Marvel Hearing Aids
Phonak announced the introduction of the Marvel 2.0, described as “the next generation of Marvel technology developed to give hearing aid wearers even more hearing performance, more connectivity, and...
View ArticlePhonak Launches Sky Marvel for Children
Phonak, a hearing aid provider, announced that it is extending the benefits of Marvel hearing aid technology to children and infants with Sky Marvel (M). The Sky M was designed and engineered to...
View ArticleOticon Launches Xceed, Xceed Play, and CROS Hearing Solutions
Oticon announced the arrival of new adult and pediatric power hearing aids as well as a new CROS/BiCROS hearing solution to the Oticon Velox S family of hearing solutions. Oticon Xceed reportedly gives...
View ArticleResearchers Develop Storytelling App for Deaf Children who Speak in Sign...
Advances in digital technology including tablets, smartphones, and mobile apps have revolutionized the way people interact, communicate, and learn at home (and in classrooms) around the world. Now, an...
View ArticleAustralian Child’s Hearing Loss Databank Can Help Researchers Worldwide
A unique Victorian databank that profiles children with hearing loss will help researchers globally understand why some children adapt and thrive, while others struggle, according to an announcement on...
View ArticleVanderbilt Receives $3.2 Million NIH Grant to Study Reading Skills in...
By Joan Brasher, Public Affairs Officer Vanderbilt University has been awarded a $3.2 million grant by the National Institutes of Health to better understand how children who are deaf or hard of...
View ArticlePediatric Hearing Loss May Lead to Changes in Brain’s Sound Processing
Deafness in early childhood is known to lead to lasting changes in how sounds are processed in the brain, but new research published in eLife shows that even mild-to-moderate levels of hearing loss in...
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