Congrats to our new cohort of 2025 Emerging Research Grants scientists, both first year and second year renewals!! Huge thank you to one of our funders Hyperacusis Research! The next CfA opens Oct 28, stay tuned #loveyourears#keeplisteninghearinghealthfoundation.org/blogs/meet-t...
"This Hispanic Heritage Month Doodle honors Cuban American silent film actor Emerson Romero, who innovated some of the first techniques to make films accessible for Deaf people." << šš!! From: doodles.google/doodle/celeb...#HispanicHeritageMonth#loveyourears#keeplistening
Learn more about the creation of Celebrating Emerson Romero Doodle and discover the story behind the unique artwork.
While we appreciate this is getting a lot of attention and showing how sensory hair cells of the inner ear can be permanently damaged by loud sounds, the hair cells look like hair follicles growing *outside* the cochlea--rendered by AI?? šš¤£ www.tiktok.com/@zackrecap/v...#loveyourears#keeplistening
TikTok video by Zack D. Films.
"They donāt leave the house without earplugs.... They donāt use inadequate ear protection." << šÆ YES From: www.huffpost.com/entry/ear-do...#loveyourears#keeplistening
If you want to protect your hearing and ear health in the long and short term, avoid these behaviors.
"Thereās this incorrect thought that sign language will impair speech development, Bosworth says. Yet recent evidence, she says, suggests that learning sign language may actually boost a childās spoken vocabulary." From: www.snexplores.org/article/deaf...#loveyourears#keeplistening#asl
This deaf experimental psychologist has found that babies are born ready to learn sign language, just like spoken language.
"When Krause returned last year, there was no water in the creek and no sounds during an hourās recording." From: quietcoalition.org/climate-chan...#quietcommunities#loveyourears#keeplistening
Photo credit: Min An by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Guardian (UK) has a sad, poignant article by reporter Phoebe Weston about how clim
Apple's "All-in-One Hearing Health Experience" will also provide an integrated hearing test and a loud sound reduction feature (but to what volume, we wonder!). Get all the details here from: @HearingTracker www.hearingtracker.com/news/apple-t...#loveyourears#keeplistening#apple#airpods
"If you have a big muscle car or you remove the muffler or install enormous tailpipes, thatās a conscious choice youāre making. You like the fact that youāre calling attention to yourself." From: bloomberg.com/news/feature...#loveyourears#keeplistening
Klaxon automotive horns, once standard safety equipment, disappeared from the roads after World War I. But the tensions they exposed about urban noise still echo.
"...highlighted the importance of hearing health and tackled the stigma surrounding men wearing hearing aids. Diagnosed with Meniere's disease in his 30s, Chris has been using hearing aids to manage the condition." From: uk.style.yahoo.com/bbc-one-show...#loveyourears#keeplistening#bbc
The Springwatch host appeared on The One Show to help raise awareness for hearing loss, and shared how important it is for him to be able to hear to enjoy nature
"The dual input of sound and lyrics is helpful in the same way that that speech reading, reading lips, helps in hearing speech." From: katherinebouton.me/2024/09/02/u...#loveyourears#keeplistening
The death earlier this summer of British baritone Ben Luxon reminded me once again how subjective our response to hearing loss is. Luxon was one of several musicians I wrote about in āShouting Wonāt H...