"Lower-income Medicare Advantage beneficiaries struggle more with affording dental, vision, and hearing services despite enrolling in plans that cover these benefits, according to a study published in Health Affairs." From: hearingreview.com/practice-bui...#keeplistening

Medicare Advantage Benefits Leave Hearing Care Out of Reach for Many

Lower-income Medicare Advantage beneficiaries struggle more with affording hearing services, per a new study.

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...

Webinar in 1 Week Oct 7: Learn About Listening Better in Noise: Age-related listening difficulties that affect speech understanding and memory are common, especially in noisy environments. Learn about research on brain activity and listening hhf.org/webinar#science#research#keeplistening#hearing

"Turns out, online and especially on TikTok, sign language is slowly turning into a ‘trend’, which has inevitably led to grossly incorrect usage." From: lbbonline.com/news/behind-...#signlanguage#keeplistening @LBBOnline

Behind Re/Sign, The Campaign That Combats Fake Sign Language Through Dance | LBBOnline

Little Black Book, The creative behind Re/Sign, Youmna Hazzaa, tells LBB’s Zoe Antonov about the social responsibility of creatives in an industry equipped to raise awareness, inspirations found in r...

"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." << 👏👏!! From: doodles.google/doodle/celeb...#HispanicHeritageMonth#loveyourears#keeplistening

Celebrating Emerson Romero Doodle - Google Doodles

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?? 👎🤣 www.tiktok.com/@zackrecap/v...#loveyourears#keeplistening

How Loud Earbuds Can Damage Your Ears 😯

TikTok video by Zack D. Films.

"They don’t leave the house without earplugs.... They don’t use inadequate ear protection." << 💯 YES From: www.huffpost.com/entry/ear-do...#loveyourears#keeplistening

7 Things Ear Doctors Never, Ever Do

If you want to protect your hearing and ear health in the long and short term, avoid these behaviors.

"There’s 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 child’s spoken vocabulary." From: www.snexplores.org/article/deaf...#loveyourears#keeplistening#asl

Rain Bosworth studies how deaf kids experience the world

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 hour’s recording." From: quietcoalition.org/climate-chan...#quietcommunities#loveyourears#keeplistening

Climate change changes nature's soundscapes

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