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Hearing impairment
Hearing impairment or deafness refers to conditions in which individuals are fully or partially unable to detect or perceive at least some frequencies of sound which can typically be heard by members of their species. More at
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Audism, discrimination against Deaf and hard-of-hearing people
Auditory brainstem response (ABR) test
Auditory Processing Disorder - Auditory Processing Disorder is an umbrella term for a variety of disorders that affect the way the brain processes auditory information.
Closed captioning - Closed captioning is a term describing several systems developed to display text on a television or video screen to provide additional or interpretive information to viewers who wish to access it.
Deafblind - Deafblindness is the condition of little or no useful sight and little or no useful hearing.
Deaf culture - Deaf culture is a term applied to the social movement that holds deafness to be a difference in human experience rather than a disability.
Hearing loss with craniofacial syndromes - Hearing loss with craniofacial syndromes is a common occurrence.
Kay's Tutor v Ayrshire & Arran Health Board - Kay's Tutor v. Ayrshire & Arran Health Board 1987 2 All ER 417; 1987 S.C. 145; 1987 S.L.T. 577; is an English tort law case concerning causation in a medical negligence context.
King-Kopetzky syndrome - King-Kopetzky syndrome is an auditory disability which appears as clinically as a “normal” hearing threshold.
Models of deafness for a comparison of the medical, disability and cultural models of deafness.
Mondini dysplasia - Mondini Dysplasia, is an abnormality in the inner ear that can be the cause of hearing loss.
NIOSH Power Tools Database - The NIOSH Power Tools Database contains sound power levels, sound pressure levels, and vibrations data for a variety of common power tools that have been tested by researchers.
Noise induced hearing loss - Noise-induced hearing loss is an increasingly prevalent disorder that results from exposure to high-intensity sound, especially over a long period of time.
Noise pollution - Noise pollution is displeasing human-, animal- or machine-created sound that disrupts the activity or balance of human or animal life.
Post-lingual hearing impairment - Post-lingual deafness is a deafness where hearing loss is adventitious and develops due to disease or trauma after the acquisition of speech and language, usually after the age of six.
Pre-lingual deafness - A profoundly prelingually deaf individual is someone who was born with insufficient hearing to acquire speech normally, or who lost their hearing prior to the age at which speech is acquired.
Safe-In-Sound Award - The Safe-In-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention Award was created by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the National Hearing Conservation Association.
Tinnitus - Tinnitus is the perception of sound within the human ear in the absence of corresponding external sound.
Unilateral hearing loss - Unilateral hearing loss or single-sided deafness is a type of hearing impairment where there is normal hearing in one ear and impaired hearing in the other ear.
Videophone - A videophone is a telephone with a video screen, and is capable of full duplex video and audio transmissions for communication between people in real-time.
Specialist Library for ENT and
AudiologyHigh quality research and patient information on audiology and hearing impairment
library.nhs.uk
American Hearing Research
FoundationNorthwestern University's partner in leading hearing research in the United States.
american-hearing.org
Australian Federation of Deaf
Societies- Also called AFDS, the peak body for Deaf services in Australia.
afds.org.au
Hard of Hearing
AdvocatesNon-profit foundation dedicated to helping those with hearing loss
hohadvocates.org
Stop CMV - The CMV Action
NetworkCongenital CMV is a leading cause of hearing impariment.
stopcmv.com
