The five most common kinds of hearing loss, their typical symptoms and overall prognosis.

This resource provides parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing practical strategies to accelerate your child’s spoken language learning.

Transmission losses and background noise can considerably impair speech intelligibility when making calls on a cell phone – particularly for people who suffer from hearing loss. Hearing research scientists have now developed an app for the iPhone that improves speech intelligibility for internet phone calls made using Voice over IP technology. In addition to allowing adjustment of loudness and sound settings to meet individual preferences, the app is also able to compensate for hearing loss.

Washington State Hands & Voices is Support families with children who are deaf, deaf-blind or hard of hearing, without a bias towards communication modes.

The issue Dozens of manual-gestural “languages” and sign systems are in use in Canada. Our position The Sign languages of the Deaf are the only true Sign languages and must be given the same status and respect as any other legitimate language. The natural language of Deaf people is Sign language. In Canada there are

Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides is a national charitable foundation that was created by the Lions of Canada. Its mission is to assist Canadians with a medical or physical disability by providing them Dog Guides at no cost.

Here are some general tips to ensure clear two-way communication with people who are culturally Deaf, oral deaf, deafened and hard of hearing: