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Sounds of summer can kill hearing - research statistics and tips about hearing safety, including decibel levels of common noises.

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Celebrating its’ 26th anniversary, House Research Institute’s Family Camp continues to be a popular program for many families who have a child with a hearing loss.

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Two UAB researchers have found a testing method for CMV that they say is more reliable than the traditional method. CMV is the leading cause of hearing loss in babies. Their findings will be published in the June 2, 2011 New England Journal of Medicine.

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“One more story” is a common refrain in families with young children who love to read. But for children who are deaf or are hard-of-hearing, they often miss out on this activity because their parents may not know how to use American Sign Language (ASL) when they read to their children. Early findings from a Ryerson study show deaf and hard-of-hearing children may benefit greatly when parents read to them using ASL.

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A relatively new treatment for sudden hearing loss that involves injecting steroids into the middle ear appears to work just as well as the current standard of oral steroids, a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins and other institutions suggests. The findings, published in the May 25 Journal of the American Medical Association, could lead to more options for the 1 in 20,000 people who suffer from this often baffling and disabling condition each year.

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For people with hearing problems, a cochlear implant can transform their world. The tiny computer chip is surgically implanted into the skull to simulate the work done by the busy hairs in the inner ear to process sounds—and the implants perform very well rendering spoken language. Melody perception, however, remains a challenge.