Volume 37 Issue 9

HOH-LD-News
Vol. 37, Issue 9
November 29, 2008

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Table of Contents
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- Article 1: BHI Urges Families to Help Loved Ones with Hearing Loss Address the Problem This Holiday Season

- Article 2: HLAA Exhibits - Part Nine

- Article 3: Cochlea "tuning" may help to recover hearing

- Article 4: Short Takes

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- Article 1: BHI Urges Families to Help Loved Ones with Hearing Loss Address the Problem This Holiday Season
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Editor: Here's some good information from the folks at BHI. They're asking family members to encourage folks who don't hear well to get their hearing checked, and they also offer some tips to improve communications and travel for folks with hearing loss.

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The Better Hearing Institute (BHI) is urging families across America to keep loved ones with hearing loss close this holiday season by encouraging them to get their hearing checked and to have any hearing loss properly treated. By visiting www.hearingcheck.org, family members can use a simple, interactive screening tool to check their hearing in the comfort and privacy of their own homes. Or families can check their hearing together during holiday gatherings as a way to offer support.

"The holiday season is meant to be a time of thanks, celebration, and joy," says Sergei Kochkin, Ph.D. Executive Director of the Better Hearing Institute. "But for many people, it is a time of year when unaddressed hearing loss can cause them to feel particularly isolated and depressed. Even when surrounded by loved ones a family member's impaired ability to hear and actively participate in conversation cuts them off. Oftentimes, they are left with a sense of sadness, inadequacy, and emotional isolation. This is especially true when the hearing loss is either unrecognized or is being 'hidden' by the family member with hearing loss."

Hearing loss is one of the most commonly unaddressed health conditions in America today, and affects more than 31.5 million Americans. Sixty-five percent are below retirement age. When left untreated, hearing loss can lead to isolation and depression-a health issue that is already prevalent during the holiday season and may likely be more widespread this year given the added financial worries that many Americans are currently facing.

So this year, be especially vigilant if you see that Uncle Fred is quiet at Thanksgiving or other holiday dinners. Maybe he can't hear you and needs your help in bringing him close to the family again.

Signs and symptoms of hearing loss include not being able to hear well in a crowded room or restaurant, having trouble hearing children and women, keeping the television or radio turned up to a high volume, needing to ask family and friends to repeat what they're saying, or experiencing ringing in the ears.

"When a family member experiences unaddressed hearing loss, it silently erodes the loved one's quality of life-undermining family relationships, interfering with short-term memory, and creeping into virtually every aspect of daily living," says Kochkin. "The good news is there are solutions to help loved ones with hearing loss regain the gift of sound so they don't need to draw back in silence. Hearing loss can be easily diagnosed, and there are modern-day solutions that can help people hear better."

If someone you love is experiencing hearing loss, try these tips to help them feel included in your upcoming holiday celebrations:

* Keep the volume on the music and television down. Background noise makes it difficult for people with even mild-and sometimes undetected-hearing loss to follow the conversation.

* Try to talk to your loved one from the side that he or she hears best.

* Face the person when you are talking to them, and keep your hands away from your face.

* Speak clearly and not too fast. Remember not to talk loudly or shout.

* Write a sincere, loving letter before a big holiday family dinner or get-together, or suggest that your loved one write one, to remind folks about the need to speak clearly, one at a time, and to use effective communication strategies, such as repeating then rephrasing when your loved one doesn't understand them.

* If you plan to host a holiday dinner or party, consider leaving the dishes and silverware in the china closet. Instead, use holiday-themed paper plates and plastic cutlery. This will cut down dramatically on the noise from cutlery clattering on plates.

If you and your loved one with hearing loss are traveling during the holidays, you might consider these tips as well:

* Offer to drive so your loved one doesn't have to concentrate on heavy holiday traffic while trying to converse.

* If flying alone, encourage your loved one to let the flight attendants know that he or she has a hearing loss. Even with perfect hearing, it can be a challenge to hear at the ticket counter, security checkpoint, and gate. Airlines are required by the Department of Transportation to accommodate requests for meet and assist services for individuals with hearing loss. Difficulty hearing in-flight and other announcements about boarding information, connections, and gate changes can seriously jeopardize a person's success in having a safe and hassle-free trip.

"Most important, if someone you love appears to have a hearing loss, encourage them to get a hearing screening," Kochkin urges. "Many people decide to get their hearing checked because someone they love suggested it and provided support. And now, with the interactive tool available at www.hearingcheck.org, family members can more easily take that first, critical step in reclaiming their hearing, quality of life, and relationships. What better gift can you give this holiday season?

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Founded in 1973, BHI is a not-for-profit educational organization whose mission is to educate the public and medical profession about hearing loss, its treatment and prevention. To receive a free copy of BHI's 28 page booklet "Your Guide to Better Hearing," visit its website at www.betterhearing.org or call the Better Hearing Institute hotline at 1-800-EAR-WELL. Visit www.hearingaidtaxcredit.org for information on The Hearing Aid Tax Credit (H.R. 2329 and S. 1410)-legislation that would provide a $500 tax credit per hearing aid, available once every 5 years, for dependents and for those aged 55 and older.

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- Article 2: HLAA Exhibits - Part Nine
By Cheryl Heppner
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Editor: One of the best things about the HLAA convention is the opportunity to see all the latest and greatest technology. For those who can't make it to the convention, Cheryl Heppner does an OUTSTANDING job of reporting on the exhibits.

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- Advanced Bionics
- Uniden

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Advanced Bionics

Advanced Bionics highlighted its Harmony HiResolution Bionic Ear System at this year's convention, and emphasized its programs for hearing music better with a cochlear implant. It was a tad disconcerting to visit their exhibit, because the faces of NVRC board member Mike Royer and his daughter are on many of their advertising materials. Mike himself was there as well, always ready to pull my leg in Reno as adeptly as he does it back home. Sheila and Gerry Adams were also on hand again this year for Advanced Bionics. They are former residents of Loudoun County. Sheila is loving having bilateral hearing with the addition of a Harmony cochlear implant to her older model, and Gerry is loving her having it. I can still remember him serenading a group of cochlear implant users years ago at NVRC's old office.

The new Harmony features technology called the HiRes Fidelity 120 Sound Processing option, which Advanced Bionics says can help not only with hearing words and sentences but also the meaning conveyed through emotions and voice inflections. They emphasize, however, that three main factors will determine how well you hear with a cochlear implant. One is biological factors such as the age when you lost your hearing, the age at which you get the implant, and the medical health of your inner ear and other related medical conditions.

Another factor is how much time you devote to practicing and honing your listening skills, which Advanced Bionics compares to how an athlete's muscles get stronger with training. The third is the cochlear implant technology. Advanced Bionics reports that in clinical trials of the Harmony's HiResolution Sound, the majority of recipients reported that music sounds better, speech sounds more natural, and using the telephone is easier. Some recipients also reported that hearing in noisy environments is not as demanding. Advanced Bionics, like many other companies, was using what must be the new industry buzzword -- "CD quality" sound -- to describe the improvement in quality. As in phonograph record quality vs. CD, or traditional TV vs. LCD or plasma. Advanced Bionics has developed some tools and resources to help with listening therapy -- programs, websites for practice, workbooks, CDs, and interactive computer programs.

Something I never thought we'd be concerned about when I got my cochlear implant in 2000 was that people with two implants might accidentally connect one of their processors to the wrong ear. Not to worry if you have the new Auria Harmony BTE sound processor. It has a safety feature to protect against that. And this processor's gone mod! You can be sedate or bold in your color choices. On the crazier end of the spectrum there are designs with tiny rocket ships, or tiny stars, or one known as "Liquid Gel." The rechargeable PowerCel batteries give a day's worth of listening and the charger can accommodate up to four at any time.

The Harmony's earhook has a lot of options. One is the T-mic microphone for everyday listening. You can swap it with another earhook that gives you the ability to direct connect to cell phones, MP3 players and assistive listening devices with a 3.5 mm stereo jack.

www.bionicear.com

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Uniden

Cordless phone manufacturer Uniden was announcing its newest line of cordless phones at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas back in January 2008 when I was there for the captioned radio press conference. One of the new series of Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) 6.0 was on display for the HLAA conference, and it is hearing aid compatible. Unfortunately it was a prototype and you'll just have to find patience until it debuts with the rest of the DECT-1500 series in September 2008. You can't find it among the DECT models currently on the Uniden website yet, but keep checking.

Why keep checking? Because as Al Baum said, "all of the new Uniden models going forward will be TIA-1083 compliant." Uh oh, I just saw the geek speak alert going off! Translation, all of them will meet requirements of a Telecommunications Industry Association standard, number 1083. Further translation: this is the standard which attempts to provide hearing aid compatibility by reducing or eliminating magnetic interference. Even further translation: it helps to stop buzzing, humming, or whining noises from cellular and cordless phones that were being experienced by people wearing hearing aids or cochlear implants. Class dismissed.

If you need a new or refresher class on the hearing aid compatibility ratings of wireless phones, you'll find a brochure to download and some great Frequently Asked Questions at: http://www.accesswireless.org/hearingaid/brochures.cfm. M for Microphone, T for Telecoil, the higher the number, the better. That's a little pop quiz to see if you need to visit that website or not. Once you know its meaning, you can check out the Uniden DECT phone boxes or website for the TIA-1083 logo.

DECT 6.0 uses a frequency that is new to cordless telephones. The technology avoids interference with household products like baby monitors, microwaves and WiFi as well as other DECT 6.0 phones which are sure to arrive soon. Other advantages of this technology are reputed to be sound quality, voice clarity, high security, and longer battery life.

Not to give Mike Royer a swelled head or anything, but he must have been either exceedingly charming or quite a pest at the Uniden exhibit. Al Baum gave him a Unident TRU-9465 cordless to take home and try out. And what did Mike think? Here's what he's said so far:

- "I love this phone because I can hold the receiver to my ear without interference and without having to use my t-coil. The natural amplification of the phone is sufficient."
- "I have never been able to hold a cordless phone to my ear before because of interference!"
- "The handset has easy-to-follow-icons and the LED is bright!
...and of course, "I AM SO HAPPY!"

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(c)2008 by Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons (NVRC), 3951 Pender Drive, Suite 130, Fairfax, VA 22030; www.nvrc.org. 703-352-9055 V, 703-352-9056 TTY, 703-352-9058 Fax. You do not need permission to share this information, but please be sure to credit NVRC.

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- Article 3: Cochlea "tuning" may help to recover hearing
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Editor: Here's some news about work on natural and artificial cochleas that may eventually benefit folks with hearing loss. For additional information, please point your browser to http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000161

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Scientists based in Switzerland and South Africa have created a biophysical methodology that may help to overcome hearing deficits, and potentially remedy even substantial hearing loss. The authors propose a method of retuning functioning regions of the ear to recognize frequencies originally associated with damaged areas. Details are published August 29th in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology.

Hearing loss is an increasingly important problem in societies of growing average age. The conventional hearing-aid and cochlear implant technology have only been partially successful in recreating the experience of the fully functioning ear.

A possible reason for the lack of success could be because the cochlea - the hearing sensor - must be fully embedded into the corto-cochlear feedback loop. While recent artificial cochleas have been developed that are extremely close to the performance of the biological one, the integration of artificial cochleas into this loop is an extremely difficult micro-surgical task.

In an attempt to circumvent this problem, the authors investigated the biophysics and bio-mechanics of the natural sensor. They have identified modifications that would enable the remapping of frequencies where the cochlea malfunctions to neighboring intact cochlear areas. This remapping is performed in such a way that no auditory information is lost and the tuning capabilities of the cochlea can be fully utilized.

Their findings indicate that biophysically realistic modifications could remedy even substantial hearing loss. Moreover, with a recently designed electronic cochlea at hand, the changes in the perception of hearing could be predicted.

The surgical procedures needed to establish the authors' suggested biophysical corrections have not yet been developed. Recently developed lasers could play a prominent role in these surgical procedures, similar to their role in correcting deficits for another important human sensor, the eye.

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- Article 4: Short Takes
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Editor: Here are our picks of some additional stories that you may find interesting. For more, please point your browser to: http://www.hearinglossweb.com/news/curr.htm

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Aural Rehabilitation for the Workplace

At one time, when a still-working adult visited an audiological clinic complaining of listening difficulties, the audiologist could guess that the patient worked in a factory, on a farm or construction site, or in the armed services. Working adults who sought services were often victims of unremitting noise exposure. With the aging of the work force and the high noise levels in modern society, more audiologists now treat patients who work in quieter environments. These workers often have no health-related issues other than hearing loss. As members of the "baby boom" generation, they tend to be well-educated and healthy compared with their counterparts of yesteryear. They expect and deserve to retain the ability to conduct their daily work-related responsibilities and to advance within their companies. We recently conducted a series of focus groups to learn who these workers are, how hearing loss has affected their job performance, and what they would like from their audiologists (Tye-Murray, Spry, & Mauzé, submitted). Our goal was to collect information that could guide counseling, aural rehabilitation intervention, and self-management of this population.

http://tinyurl.com/66ebrr

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Infrared Light May Improve Cochlear Implants

Infrared light can stimulate neurons in the inner ear as precisely as sound waves, a discovery that could lead to better cochlear implants for deaf people. A healthy inner ear uses hair cells that respond to sound to stimulate neurons that send signals to the brain. But hair cells can be destroyed by disease or injury, or can contain defects at birth, leading to deafness. In such cases, cochlear implants can directly stimulate neurons. The hearing provided by today's implants is good enough to enable deaf children to develop speech skills that are remarkably similar to hearing children's. Implant users still find it tough to appreciate music, communicate in a noisy environment and understand tonal languages like Mandarin, however. That's because the implants use only 20 or so electrodes, a small number compared to the 3000-odd hair cells in a healthy ear. More sources of stimulation should make hearing clearer but more electrodes cannot be packed in because tissue conducts electricity, so signals from different electrodes would interfere. In contrast, laser light targets nerves more precisely and doesn't spread, which could allow an implant to transmit more information to the neurons.

http://tinyurl.com/6a4f9v

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Holiday Tips from Ann Warren

The holidays are coming up, and it can be a time that's very stressful for those with hearing loss. But there are things that can help make the situation a little easier. Ann Warren, the coordinator for the North West Texas Chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America, spoke with CBS 7 today. You can watch the interview online. If you would like more information on the Hearing Loss Association of America, you can visit www.hearingloss.org.

Holiday Tips Video - http://www.cbs7kosa.com/news/details.asp?ID=9497

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Employment Opportunity 1
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Employment Opportunity 2
Various Employment Opportunities
Georgia School for the Deaf
Cave Spring, GA
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Currently accepting applications for the following positions:

Middle School Science Teacher (10 mth. position)*
Literacy Content Specialist - Pre K-12 (10 mth. position)*
Reading Content Specialist - Pre K-12 (10 mth. position)*
Graduation Coach (10 mth. position)*
Paraprofessional - Classroom (10 mth. positions)*
Paraprofessional - Residential Services (Two 10 mth. positions)*
Residential Advisor (Two 10 mth. positions)*
Speech Language Pathologist (10 mth. position)*
Substitute Teachers (hourly paid, based on credentials)
Occupational Therapist (hourly paid)
Physical Therapist (hourly paid)

*10 month employees work 200 days (10 months) but receive payroll checks during each of the 12 months of the year.

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Completed applications may be mailed, e-mailed, or faxed to:

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Employment Opportunity 3
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West Virginia Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Charleston, WV
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A new and exciting opportunity to make a difference awaits this successful candidate. The executive director is responsible for the overall operation of the commission including, but not limited to, seeking regular and special funding, supervising and directing commission staff, fiscal management and drafting legislation and administrative rules to ensure the needs of the deaf and hard of hearing statewide are met.

This position provides leadership to support persons who are deaf and/or hard of hearing in identifying and advocating for public policy that fosters independence and equal access for persons with disabilities. This unique position provides for the ability to make a difference in an area where making a difference is so important to many.

The Commission serves as a clearing house for information, which makes program planning, research and ability to communicate with the deaf and hard of hearing a must. Master's degree in deaf studies, public policy and administration or related field from an accredited institution of higher education plus administrative experience with the deaf and hard of hearing is desired. Some weekend and evening work necessary.

$50,000 a year salary plus state benefits. Application forms can be found at: http://www.state.wv.us/admin/personnel. Submit resume, cover letter and application form to:

Harriett Fitzgerald, Director of Personnel
WVDHHR
Capitol Complex, Building 3, Room 518
Charleston, West Virginia 25305

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Employment Opportunity 4
Psychology Faculty
Gallaudet University
Washington, DC
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The Psychology Department at Gallaudet University is recruiting for faculty positions, including undergraduate psychology and school psychology. Position descriptions and application information can be found at http://gallaudet.edu/af/jobs/.

For additional information about these positions, contact Dr. Irene W. Leigh, Department Chair, at Irene.Leigh@Gallaudet.edu.

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