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Fall 2006 Issue
Speaking As One Voice
Interest groups in the United States contribute to the political system by bringing important issues and relevant information to our nation’s legislators. Through federations, associations and ... Read More »
New Help for Dizzy Patients
Vertigo, dizziness and balance disorders can literally make a person's head spin. Almost as unsettling is the long and frustrating odyssey through the healthcare system to seek treatment for these ... Read More »
Interview with DRF’s Managing Director of Development
Rob Carter serves as the managing director of development for Deafness Research Foundation (DRF). He spoke with Hearing Health about the important fundraising efforts that enable DRF to fund innovative, ... Read More »
Teaching Children to Prevent Noise-induced Hearing Loss and Tinnitus
In January 2006, Louisiana resident John Kiel Patterson filed a federal lawsuit against Apple Computer, Inc., claiming that Apple’s iPod® personal music systems are “inherently defective in design ... Read More »
Justice: Lost in Translation?
“All rise.” Everyone stands. The judge takes his place on the bench, everyone sits. The defendant follows your lead and you note his wide-eyed expression as he looks earnestly ... Read More »
Mailbag - Letters to the Editor
It’s Ba-ack!
I just finished reading the latest issue of Hearing Health magazine and found it both interesting and reader friendly. But something was missing: the “Mailbag” page. I hope ... Read More »
Improve Your Listening at Home with Multimedia Aural Rehabilitation Tools
Imagine that you just had your knee replaced with a prosthetic device. The surgery is over, the wound is healing well but your new knee remains stiff and you have limited mobility. What should happen ... Read More »
Donor's Bill of Rights
Americans are very generous. We donate our time, skills, energy, our possessions, real estate, money – we even donate our transplantable organs. Whether through organizations or random acts of kindness, ... Read More »
Birth of an Agency: The Emergence of the Ameriacn Academy of Audiology
The idea of forming an organization of, by and for audiologists first took root in New Orleans at the 1987 convention of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association. A small group of presenters, ... Read More »
Giving Children with Hearing Loss an Early Start
Hearing loss is the most common birth defect in the United States, more common than Down syndrome or cystic fibrosis. Yet, in a recent survey conducted for the Alexander Graham Bell Association for ... Read More »
Language Gain: The Big Payoff of Early Intervention
You’ve just received the devastating news that your child has hearing loss. You are overwhelmed by emotion. Caring professionals try to reassure you, but are they just saying these things to make ... Read More »
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: Hearing Loss Through Healing Drugs
Since ancient times, drugs have played out their parts as the good and the bad, for curing and for killing. Such was pronounced in Homer’s Odyssey “… where earth the grain-giver yields herbs ... Read More »
Delayed Access: Challenges to Compliance with FCC Closed-Captioning Rules
Despite a rule that all new television programs must run closed captions, complaints about poor to nonexistent captioning continue to pour in to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and advocacy ... Read More »
Looping America
In 1994, the United States Department of Justice published “Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title III Technical Assistance Manual 1994 Supplement.” That document set accessibility standards ... Read More »
2006-7 DRF Research Grant Recipients
The Deafness Research Foundation (DRF) is pleased to announce our 2006-2007 research grant recipients. DRF’s annual grant program supports our mission to fund innovative research in the field ... Read More »
