Archive for April, 2009

Cochlear Americas Launches New Rehabilitation Program for Cochlear Implant Recipients (Newswise)

Based on computer-assisted speech training software developed by the House Ear Institute, Cochlear's Sound and WAY Beyond modifies clinical therapy techniques to allow cochlear implant recipients to practice and perfect their listening skills at home.

Eradicating deafness: School for the hearing impaired could one day be out of business (The Telegram)

The only cochlear implant surgeon in this province says deafness is a disability which is being eradicated in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Hear Me: Magazine on hearing by HMC (Zawya)

DOHA: The Audiology and Balance Unit at the Hamad Medical Corporation Hamad Medical Corporation has brought out a bi-annual magazine aimed at creating awareness on hearing.

Festival’s French Mass a highlight (The Advocate)

Isabel Douglass plays the accordion with Rupa and the April Fishes on Sunday during the Festival International de Louisiane in Lafayette. Isabel Douglass plays the accordion with Rupa and the April Fishes on Sunday during the Festival International de Louisiane in Lafayette.

Hear Me: Magazine on hearing by HMC (The Peninsula)

DOHA: The Audiology and Balance Unit at the Hamad Medical Corporation has brought out a bi-annual magazine aimed at creating awareness on hearing. The launch came with a week long awareness campaign to promote awareness on hearing disabilities

Hear Me: Magazine on hearing by HMC (The Peninsula)

DOHA: The Audiology and Balance Unit at the Hamad Medical Corporation has brought out a bi-annual magazine aimed at creating awareness on hearing. The launch came with a week long awareness campaign to promote awareness on hearing disabilities

Hope to hear from you (Tulsa World)

Most of his life, Justin Garrett can remember his family complaining about noisy crickets on warm nights. He always wondered what that sounded like. Deafness starting at age 2 left him able to hear amplified sounds through hearing aids, but he had few sound memories. Crickets were a mystery.

4 Buncombe schools head to world finals (Asheville Citizen-Times)

RALEIGH – Four Buncombe County Schools placed in the Odyssey of the Mind State competition and will represent North Carolina in the Odyssey of the Mind 2009 World Finals to be held at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, May 27-30.

Campaign on hearing loss from today (The Peninsula)

DOHA: The Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is today launching a campaign to create public awareness on hearing loss. The campaign, named ‘Join and listen to us’, will run until April 30 with a variety of programmes planned at various locations in Qatar.

Cochlear implant bill advances (Beaver Dam Daily Citizen)

MADISON (AP) — Wisconsin lawmakers acted Thursday to become the first state to require insurance companies to cover cochlear implants for children with severe hearing problems.