#hearingloss — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hearingloss, aggregated by home.social.
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Can you hear the beep? 👂
An audiogram measures something extremely useful: the quietest pure tone we can detect at different frequencies.
But:
Detection ≠ Attention ≠ UnderstandingReal hearing means extracting a voice from noise, recognising incomplete information, localising sound, adapting to change — and doing all of that comfortably and without unreasonable cognitive effort.
My new HybridMind42 article asks a simple question:
Are we measuring hearing loss, or measuring enough of human hearing to understand what a person actually needs?The audiogram isn't the problem.
Don't break the tool. Define its proper boundaries.#HybridMind42 #Audiology #Hearing #HearingLoss #HearingAids #Tinnitus #Neuroscience #HumanPerception #ScienceCommunication
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The last taboo of classical music
https://inews.co.uk/culture/arts/last-taboo-classical-music-4704427
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Stories in the press claim that dementia is strongly linked to hearing loss. @BBCNews's Science Focus takes a look at the facts. “Because hearing loss is so common, it appears to be the biggest risk factor,” says the University of Manchester's Dr. Jenna Littlejohn. "But that doesn’t mean it’s the main or most likely cause to you as an individual. It’s misleading to people who don’t know much about statistics or epidemiology.”
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I picked up my right hearing aid today after 2 weeks of going through this loud world with only one hearing aid in my left ear.
I had forgotten how exhausting it is to hear noise but not to be able to differentiate them. Also, I forgot how much heavy lifting my right hearing aid does!
My left ear is almost completely closed for business, and even with a working hearing aid in it, I really struggled.
Now that my hearing is (sort of) back, I can go back to punching Nazis.
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Sorry, but it should be illegal for any venue to play music at hearing-damaging levels and not provide free ear plugs.
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RE: https://digitalcourage.social/@doofeohren/116935782073955051
My latest article on #hearingloss.
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PSA:
I recently turned 50 and, to celebrate, my wife told me I wasn't heaing things normally anymore.
I went to the ear people who agreed with her.
I'm getting hearing aids before my mother and before my father in law, both of whom hear much worse than I do, because current science suggests that untreated hearing loss contributes to cognitive decline and dementia. No thank you!
I'll take the bionic parts.
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Service dog epically fails every single test at training school, and people love him for it
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/service-dog-fails-training-ex1/
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#MénièresDisease #Vertigo #Caffine #Salt #HearingLoss #Balance
It took three years to get a diagnosis of Menieres--2017 to 2020
It's been 5 years since I had caffinated coffee.
It's been 7 years since I shook a salt shaker.
It's been one day since I stopped decaf coffee.I began having severe vertigo last week. 3 very strong episodes, what I scale as 8 out of 10, 10 being a drop attack. Yes, that's just what it sounds like--no warning, no spinning or tilting--just down.
2 of them happened while I was driving. It really SUCKS and is very scary because even trying to get to the side of the road seems impossible when everything is sliding and tilting and moving up and down.
One other was milder.This week one severe (again while driving!) and three small episodes.
I had been free of it for
nearly two full years, after an injection into my right ear drum.I'm not fucking around with it. I called my doctor and am scheduling a second injection---the risk is deafness on that ear, whech already can't hear. Th eprevious injection caused no drum tissue damage, so it's worth it for me.
End of my pissing and moaning. I am very grateful for medicare and secondary insurance.
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El Deafo: A Graphic Novel "With the Phonic Ear, she can hear her teacher not just in the classroom" Sale: $13.49 to $1.99 by Cece Bell Rating: 4.7/5 (5,164 Reviews) #graphicnovel #childrensbooks #disability #hearingloss #friendship #books #booksky #memoir #kids #diversity
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Walking Slower? Why Your Ears, Not Your Knees, Might Be the Problem
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/hearing-loss-walking-speed-iphone-study-c53c482a
#HackerNews #walkinghealth #hearingloss #wellness #research #speed
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El Deafo: A Graphic Novel "With the Phonic Ear, she can hear her teacher not just in the classroom, but anywhere" Sale: $13.49 to $1.99 by Cece Bell Rating: 4.7/5 (5,163 Reviews) #kidlit #graphicnovel #diversity #disability #friendship #books #booksky #kids #representation #hearingloss
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🎉 Wow, the #FDA finally figured out what genes are! 🧬 Their #groundbreaking #approval might just cure your hereditary inability to hear reason. 🤦♂️ Let's hope they can gene-edit their way to a solution for selective hearing next. 🙉
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-ever-gene-therapy-treatment-genetic-hearing-loss-under-national-priority-voucher #GeneEditing #HearingLoss #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated -
FDA Approves First-Ever Gene Therapy for Treatment of Genetic Hearing Loss
#HackerNews #FDA #GeneTherapy #HearingLoss #MedicalInnovation #GeneticResearch
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Dozing off with your head on one side while wearing your hearing aids.
Kids - just don't do it!Ouch!
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Does this product exist?
A microphone that you can connect via Bluetooth to any BT speaker or receiver (like a hearing aid) to make that speaker into a sort of PA system?
It seems so obvious that this should exist. But searching I seem to only find these stupid LLM generated articles, and microphones sold with its own speaker or its own receiver that you need to plug in to an aux input. Am I being stupid?
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What even what the fuck.
#disability #disabled #ND #neurodivergent #sensory #deaf #HoH #hearing #HearingLoss #access #accessibility #EaseOfAccess #telephone #phone #PhoneCall
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I have moderate hearing loss which is somewhat beyond age appropriate, I also have left sided tinnitus.
I'm very lazy about wearing my hearing aids but the quality of sound when I'm using them is notably better. When I take them out everything sounds as though it's being filtered through a blanket!
Certainly the world is a very noisy place when I'm using my hearing aids - the greatest joy is hearing birdsong that I miss otherwise.The aids were tuned by the audiologist to minimise the noise of my tinnitus as well.
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Hearing loss is often called a dementia risk factor – here’s what the research really shows
#HearingLoss #Dementia #BrainHealth #Health #Science #MedicalResearch #Aging #CognitiveHealth #Wellness #PublicHealth #Neuroscience #Awareness #Research
https://the-14.com/hearing-loss-is-often-called-a-dementia-risk-factor-heres-what-the-research-really-shows/ -
Hive mind! My partner has fairly extensive bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and is meant to wear hearing aids but found the NHS ones very uncomfortable.
We’re looking at private options, and I’m wondering if anyone in my network has any recommendations for something comfortable that can be worn with glasses.