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For 2025, the theme of the campaign is "Empower yourself" encouraging individuals to take steps to ensure good hearing in all stages of life.This focus is a new angle of the theme of the 2024 World Hearing Day "Changing mindsets" which encouraged addressing challenges posed by societal misperceptions and stigmatizing mindsets associated with hearing difficulties.
Hearing loss is a challenging and frustrating issue that can impact daily life, relationships, and mental health. The likelihood of hearing loss increases with age, and in the United States ...
Call it transformative. The gravel driveway crunched nicely, the water in the garden fountains slurped with renewed vigor and the whole world sounded 38% better - crisper and more welcoming.
The Royal National Institute for Deaf People was founded as the National Bureau for Promoting the General Welfare of the Deaf in 1911 by Leo Bonn (Leo Bernard William Bonn) a deaf merchant banker, and philanthropist, in the ballroom of his home, at Bonn House, 22 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair, on 9 June 1911.
Hearing aids will be available over-the-counter for the first time in the United States starting next week, according to a University of Washington Medicine Oct. 12 press release.
The Association was originally created as the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (AAPTSD). In 1908 it merged with Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Bureau (founded in 1887 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge relating to the deaf"), and was renamed as the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf in 1956 at the suggestion of Mrs. Frances Toms, the ...
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International Noise Awareness Day is a global campaign, founded in 1996 by the Center for Hearing and Communication (CHC), aiming to raise awareness of the effects of noise on the welfare and health of people. Noise affects people in many ways, but only deafness and annoyance receive actual interest from the general public. [1]