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A one-stop source for information, education and resources about hearing loss.

 

Featured Business:

COUNTRYSIDE HEARING AID SERVICES, INC.
Over 40 Years Experience
Cypress Point Shopping Center
25829 U.S. Hwy. 19 N. (Map)
Clearwater, FL 33763-2034
(727) 796-1161

Articles:

Ear and Hearing
Official journal of the American Auditory Society. [Requires registration.]
Hearing Health Magazine
Publication containing articles on hearing loss and deafness. Features current and archived issues.
Medical College of Wisconsin Healthlink Topics: Ears/Hearing
News and information about hearing disorders from the physicians of the Medical College of Wisconsin.


Websites:

AHRF
The American Hearing Research Foundation (AHRF) is a not-for-profit organization whose primary mission is to fund significant research in hearing and balance disorders, and to help educate the public..
ASHA
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 115,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists.
BHI
The Better Hearing Institute (BHI) is a not-for-profit corporation for the promotion of the benefits of better hearing. Provides comprehensive information on hearing loss, tinnitus, and hearing aids, as well as a directory of hearing care providers.

Deafness / Hard of Hearing
Information and resources about and for deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people, including topics such as sign language and hearing aids.
Deafness Research Foundation
The Deafness Research Foundation (DRF) is the leading source of private funding for basic and clinical research in hearing science.
Healthy Hearing
Consumer information on hearing aids, including digital hearing aids and batteries for hearing aids. Also provides information on other hearing loss topics.
H.E.A.R.
Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers is non-profit grassroots hearing health organization. Provides information and resources on tinnitus, hearing loss, hearing evaluation referrals, hearing aids and assistive listening devices (ALD's), as well as a referral service of audiology partners, ear doctors, and entertainment links.
Hearing Exchange - For People With Hearing Loss
Community for people with hearing loss, parents of deaf and hard of hearing children and professionals.
Hearing Loss Web
Comprehensive site for hard of hearing, late deafened, and oral deaf persons, focusing on events, issues, support, and technology.
HSDC
Your Hearing, Speech & Deafness Center, an educational service and supply resource for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and speech impaired people. Parent-infant program for parents of deaf.
League for the Hard of Hearing
A not-for-profit hearing rehabilitation and human services agency for infants, children and adults who are hard of hearing, deaf and deaf-blind.
National Hearing Conservation Association
The mission of the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) is to prevent hearing loss due to noise and other environmental factors in all sectors of society.

NCHAM
The National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM, pronounced "en-cham") is dedicated to early hearing detection and intervention and universal newborn hearing screening.
NIDCD
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) is one of the institutes that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Federal government's focal point for the support of biomedical research. Established in 1988, NIDCD is mandated to conduct and support biomedical and behavioral research and research training in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, and language.
SHHH
Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH) provides information, education, support and advocacy for people with hearing loss.
Sight & Hearing Association
A nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing the needless loss of vision and hearing through effective screening, education, and research.
The EAR Foundation
Provides general public support services and practicing ear specialists with continuing medical education courses and related programs, and educates young people and adults about hearing preservation and early detection of hearing loss.


Hearing Aids:

Hearing Aids 101
Designed to help consumers learn about the wide variety of hearing aids and related products on the market today.
Hearing Alliance of America
Comprehensive list of and links to hearing aid manufacturers, hearing supply distributors, assistive listening device manufacturers, hearing test equipment manufacturers.
HearingDepot.com
Products for the hearing impaired, including amplified telephones, alerting, signaling and wake-up devices, and other assistive listening devices (ALD's).
HearingPlanet
Authorized distributor of Siemens, GN ReSound, Sonic Innovations, Phonak Hearing Systems, and Oticon. Offers a free telephone hearing test.
Hearing Resources
Technology for Acoustical Accessibility and Independent Living. Assistive equipment.
HearTodaycom
A subsidiary of American Hearing Aid Associates (AHAA). Specializing in the diagnosis of hearing loss and the treatment of hearing loss
www.earinfo.com
Public service site of Hearing Alliance of America.  Information about hearing loss and special reports about "How To Buy" hearing aids and "How To Live" with hearing aids.


Other Links:

AudiologyDepot.com
Deafness and Hard of Hearing Resources
The Hearing Center Online

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