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What Treatment Options are Offered for Central Auditory Processing Disorder/CAPD
Identifying Central Auditory Processing Disorder, or CAPD, is difficult for a variety of reasons. The problem isn't because the children can't hear words being directed at them, but because their brains have an inability to process the words and grasp them, which...
Summary of Prevalent Hearing Aid Abbreviations, Models and Styles
Purchasing hearing aids can be hard if you're not familiar with the large number of acronyms used to identify basic types. The following collection includes most of the abbreviations you are likely to run into when investigating hearing aids and provides a brief...
Work-Related Hearing Loss: Careers With Higher than Average Risk
Do you find yourself concerned about hearing impairments from noise levels on the job? Extreme noise levels are one of the most common causes of hearing damage. Worrying about your ability to hear is a natural reaction for anyone working in a high-noise profession. An...
Ruptured Eardrum Essentials – A Primer on Prevention, Symptoms and Treatment
Eardrums are important, serving two vitally important roles in hearing. First and foremost they vibrate in response to sound. Second they create a barrier that safeguards the inner ear from infection. While undamaged, the eardrum seals off the inner ear setting up a...
An Overview of the Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Choices for Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo or BPPV
Patients with vertigo incorrectly perceive motion (commonly a rotating motion) in their surroundings. The sensations of vertigo occasionally include dizziness, spinning or falling. When vertigo affects balance, it can result in falls and accidental injuries -...
Hearing Protection, Performance and Comfort Concerns in Selecting Kids’ Headphones
One of the things you can look forward to if you have kids is that sooner or later they are going to ask you to get them some headphones to use with their gaming systems, music players and computers. No huge shock there. After all, headphones often offer a better...
Discover the Speech Banana – Just What Is It?
The term "speech banana" brings a lot of funny images to mind, for instance a banana-shaped listening device, but that would be incorrect.The "speech banana" is a specific design depicted on an audiogram. Audiograms are graphs of sound frequency (on the x axis) and...
Which Type of Ear and Hearing Protection Should Shooters Wear
America's fascination with guns is almost unique across the globe; we grew up with television programs and movies about cowboys and police and heroic characters who were all totin' guns and firing them regularly. Constant encounters with these images is one of many...
Hearing Aids and Personal Sound Amplifiers (PSAs) Are Definitely Not the Same
There's a lot of confusion with regards to the difference between these two categories of devices, and that confusion is multiplied by how many ads floating around for low-cost personal sound amplifiers (PSAs), compared with how relatively few you see for hearing...
Swimmer’s Ear Prevention and Treatment
Acute external otitis is an infection of the outer ear canal - the part outside your eardrum. Virtually all people know it by its common name - swimmer's ear. This type of infection was named "swimmer's ear" because it's very often brought on by water remaining in the...