Archive for March, 2009
I love my cousin Rush Limbaugh, even though I don't agree with him. Now please stop judging me by my last name.
Can you hear it? The sounds of spring mean it's time to tee-off for an annual golf tournament that benefits the deaf and hard of hearing.
As a child, Elizabeth Boschini said she read books which portrayed deaf children as different and passive. Now given the chance to write her own books, she wanted to portray them as normal people in control of their lives. The senior speech pathology major has authored two books, "Ellie's Ears" in May 2008 and "Happy Birthday to My Ears" in June 2008.
Mrs. A. H. F. Lameera, (41) of 35/7, Jayanthi Mawatha, Mirihana, Kotte is suffering from diabetic nephropathy and now in end stage renal failure.
A new page was turned in the country’s medical history yesterday morning with the successful performance of the first ever Bone Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA) surgery on the five-year-old Kavishaka Dilshan Nikapitiya, who was born with deformity in both the ears at the Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital (LRHC).
FOXNews.com takes a look at five inventions that are in development at some of the country's most cutting-edge research labs and explores how they may change the way you live your life.
Cochlear Americas, the world's leader in advanced hearing technologies, brings together cochlear implant recipients and their families for the third Cochlear Celebration on March 26-29 in Anaheim, California. With over 600 recipients and their families expected to attend, this inspiring four-day event is the largest gathering of cochlear implant recipients in the world.
Fifty-four million people in the U.S. qualify as physically or mentally disabled, and this just-launched news site is for them.
A Goldwater Scholarship Workshop will be held Monday, March 30, 4 p.m. in the Gressette Room, Harper College for rising sophomores and juniors who will get a graduate degree to teach at the college-level or to research natural sciences, mathematics or engineering.
Shops, banks and other businesses are breaking the law in failing to provide simple hearing aid systems Shops and other everyday services must make "reasonable adjustments" to accommodate disabled customers. So says the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), but for the UK's 2 million users of hearing aids, provision often falls short. Induction loops – which work like a short-range radio system ...
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