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- Oticon A/S - International hearing aid manufacturer offers hearing instruments for hearing impaired people. Info about hearing loss and digital and hearing solutions.
- Sonus - Offers online hearing aids and batteries, nationwide clinics for the hearing impaired, a network of audiologists, dispensers and physicians, and the Sonus Hearing Institute research facility. Information on hearing loss.
- Professional Auditory Therapeutics Hearing Clinics - P.A.T. Full-service hearing loss diagnostic and treatment facilities specializing in both the medical and surgical treatment of hearing disorders. Site describes the hearing process, hearing impairments, and types of hearing aids. Fort Wayne, IN area and OH locations.
- Hearing Aid World - UK hearing loss and hearing aid information site. Offers online screening hearing test and advice on purchasing hearing aids. Includes product reviews.
- Hear-it - Learn about hearing loss with facts, figures, causes, signs, and consequences of hearing impairment. Personal experiences, advice, treatment, and hearing aids. Includes section on children.
- International Hearing Dog, Inc. - Nonprofit organization trains hearing dogs and places hearing dogs with hearing impaired individuals. Includes history, qualification criteria, and answers to common questions.
- Communicaid for Hearing-Impaired Persons - Non-profit volunteer organization provides support to the hearing-impaired in Montreal.
- Christian Deaf Camp - Camp for deaf and hearing impaired children, held at the Aldersgate Camp and Retreat Center in Irvine, KY, located near Richmond. Includes both hearing and deaf persons as counselors, and American Sign Language is used in all activities.
- Hearing Impaired Persons of Charlotte County, Inc. - Advocates for deaf, hard of hearing, blind, and speech impaired persons in Southwest Florida.
- Let Them Hear Foundation - Information about hearing, education, access, and research related to all levels of hearing impairment for children and adults
Wikipedia Articles
- American Hearing Impaired Hockey Association - The American Hearing Impaired Hockey Association (AHIHA) was established in 1973 by Chicago Blackhawks Stan Mikita, and a local business man by the name of Irv Tiahnybik, after Irv discovered the difficulties his hard-of-hearing son was having with his hearing teammates. The hockey camp grew quickly, and drew deaf ...
- Hearing aid - A hearing aid is an instrument that brings sound more effectively to the listener's ear,Hallowell Davis, S, Richard Silverman, 1978 Hearing and Deafness 4th edition, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, ISBN 0-03-089980-X, Pg 293 helping hearing impaired people hear sounds better. Early devices were passive, and attempted to gather sound energy and direct it to the ear.
- Hearing dog - A hearing dog is a specific type of assistance dog specifically selected and trained to assist people who are deaf or hearing impaired by alerting their handler to important sounds, such as doorbells, smoke alarms, ringing telephones, or alarm clocks. They may also work outside the home, alerting to such sounds such as sirens, forklifts, people approaching from behind, and a person calling the handler's name.
- Oticon - Oticon is a successful Danish hearing aid manufacturer. It was founded in 1904 by Hans Demant, whose wife was hearing impaired.
- Closed captioning - Closed captioning (CC) (commonly known as subtitles, and also called subtitles for the hearing impaired) allows people who are deaf or hard of hearing, learning a new language, beginning to read, in a noisy environment, or otherwise disadvantaged to read a transcript or dialog of the audio portion of a video, film, or other presentation. As the video plays, text captions are ...