Picture Book Centers On Girl With Hearing Loss, One Of America's Most Common Birth Defects

CHAPPAQUA, N.Y., May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the March of Dimes, about 12,000 babies with hearing loss are born in the U.S. each year, making it one of the most common birth defects. Kids ...

Hearing Around The World

Technology has given a young girl, who was born with a profound hearing loss, the ability to hear and speak.

Deaf mom celebrates daughters from both worlds

For most people, the notion of being diagnosed with progressive hearing loss is something to be feared, mourned, even lamented. For others, the concept of living in a world without sound is confusing, baffling and saddening at best. For some of my young dance students, the very word 'deaf' is often misspoken as 'death,' and for many, having a child with presumed gradual loss seems like a fate ...

HLAA Introduces Spokesperson and National Walk4Hearing Business Chair

BETHESDA, Md., May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Hearing Loss Association of America® is delighted to introduce its spokesperson and National Walk4Hearing Business Chair, Christopher J. Artinian, former president and chief executive officer of Morton's Restaurant Group, Inc....

Cochlear™ Americas Adds the Nucleus® Support App to its Mobile Service Offerings

CENTENNIAL, Colo., May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  Cochlear Americas , the world's leading implantable hearing solutions company, announced today the launch of its smartphone support application for Nucleus® ...