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Learn about hearing aids and hearing loss from the experts.

Hearing Aid Tech

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Hidden Potential: Why the Greater Wax Moth's "Hearing Technology" Makes it the World's Best Listener

October 8, 2014

2 min read

The Greater Wax Moth can hear frequencies as high as 300 kilohertz, giving it the best hearing ability and possibly inspiring new models of hearing aids.

Hearing Loss Culture

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Nature's Hearing Aid: How Costa Rican Bats Use Leaves To Listen In On Their Roost-Mates

October 8, 2014

2 min read

Researchers discovered a bat that uses leaves like an acoustic horn to magnify the sound of calls: a tool for sound manipulation, and an innovative hearing aid.

Hearing Loss Education

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Emergency Services for the Hearing-Impaired

October 7, 2014

2 min read

Hearing aids are always developing and entering the wireless age. What other systems, including emergency services, are available for the hearing-impaired?

Announcements

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The Hearing Loss Association of America’s Walk4Hearing

October 7, 2014

2 min read

Members of the New York City Chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America’s (HLAA) Walk4Hearing will join together to raise awareness about hearing loss.

Hearing and Hearing Aid Tips and Tricks

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Back to School: Hearing Loss in the Classroom (Part 1)

October 7, 2014

2 min read

Audicus highlights some tips and tricks for students with hearing loss and hearing aids to help you succeed in the classroom.

Hearing Loss Culture

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Caption That! Closed Captioning for the Hearing-Impaired

October 7, 2014

2 min read

Audicus describes an array of captioning services that can help the hearing impaired and those with hearing aids navigate events, venues, and daily life.

Hearing Loss Culture

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Digital Hearing Aids Video Roundup: Hearing for the First Time

October 7, 2014

2 min read

From the heartwarming to the tear jerking, here are Audicus’ favorite videos of patients hearing for the first time with the help of their digital hearing aids.

Hearing Aid Industry and Costs

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Beating the High Prices of Hearing Aids: An Online Fundraiser

October 7, 2014

4 min read

High prices of hearing aids are no laughing matter, and even health insurance can’t always help. So what happens when your health insurance won’t help at all?

Voices of Audicus

Tiny hearing aids, tiny hearing aid prices

Audicus Spotlight: Project Runway's Justin LeBlanc, Hearing Loss, and a Cochlear Implant

October 7, 2014

2 min read

Audicus spotlights Justic LeBlanc of Project Runway, a deaf designer who creates fashion inspired by his experience as a hearing impaired person.

Hearing Loss Culture

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The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: What You need to Know

October 7, 2014

2 min read

Audicus discusses the Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities (CRPD) treaty and how it affects people with hearing loss.

Hearing Aid Tech

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Google Glass: The Good, The Bad, and the Hearing-Impaired (Un)Friendly

October 7, 2014

3 min read

Audicus discusses the obstacles of using Google Glass as a person with hearing loss, including the use of bone conduction audio technology instead of telecoils.

Hearing Loss Culture

Putting in new HA

International Persons with Disabilities Day, as it relates to Hearing Loss

October 7, 2014

2 min read

On International Persons with Disabilities Day, we look at how society has become more inclusive for the hearing impaired this year and what could improve.

Hearing Loss Culture

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Mandela Memorial's Fake Sign Language Interpreter

October 7, 2014

2 min read

The sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial service was a fake, disappointing those in the hearing impaired community.

Audicus Hearing Aid & Audiology Blog

Age-related hearing loss and the human aging process

Superhuman Hearing: How the Locust Ear's Natural Hearing Technology Acts as a Frequency Analyzer

October 7, 2014

3 min read

Researchers discovered that the thickness and tension of the locust ear makes it act as a frequency analyzer, a naturally evolved form of hearing technology.

Hearing Loss Culture

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Hearing Loss and the Confessional

October 7, 2014

2 min read

Hearing loss makes going to confession tricky. A priest has invented a device that uses two laptops to help hearing-impaired people give their confessions.

Hearing Loss Culture

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San Antonio Restaurant Makes Its Services More Hearing-Impaired Friendly

October 7, 2014

2 min read

The hearing-impaired-friendly restaurant Rita's on the River in San Antonio is making news by incorporating ASL interpreters into their service.