The University of Washington is reporting that engineers at the school are developing the first device able to transmit American Sign Language over US cellular networks. The tool is completing its initial field test by participants in a UW summer program for deaf and hard-of-hearing students (August 2010). Read more
Royal National Institute for Deaf People in the United Kingdom funded research has discovered a new gene linked to inherited deafness, which could mean that more families will be able to identify the cause of their hearing loss (April 2010). Read more
97 percent of babies born in the USA have their hearing screened in the newborn nursery. But the key term is “follow-up.” Read more of this interesting New York Times article about the pitfalls of mainstream hearing here
With one in 20 school-aged children suffering hearing loss in one ear, American researchers found that the disability hurts their ability to comprehend and use language. Read more
Profoundly deaf children with cochlear implants to help them to hear rate their quality of life equal to their normal-hearing peers (February 2010). Read more
Learning words may be facilitated by early exposure to auditory input (February 2010). Read more
The Hearing Dogs for Deaf People New Zealand has recently released a report which estimates the number of people in the New Zealand hearing impaired and deaf communities that meet the criteria for becoming a recipient of a hearing dog. Read more
Surgically implanted hearing aids anchored to the skull bone appear to be a durable treatment option that noticeably improves hearing among children with deafness in one ear (February 2010). Read more
Mice have reportedly shed new light on causes of childhood deafness, according to a team of scientists from the United States and Germany (February 2010). Read more
The Coalition is currently carrying out an international survey in order to develop recommendations in best practice for family support - have your say!
One child a week is being made deaf by treatment with antibiotics and many more may suffer damage to their hearing, researchers at the Institute of Child Health in London have discovered (February 2009). Read more
Throughout the world, about 50,000 children have been helped to hear with cochlear implants All but a handful of these children use a single implant in one ear (November 2008). Read more
Deafness Research UK supported an investigation into the possibility that bacteria not only cause persistent or recurrent glue ear, but can also lead to rare complications, such as nerve damage, causing permanent deafness or damage to the tiny bones in the ear that transmit sound vibrations (November 2008). Read more
Deafness Research UK has helped to fund part of the National Collaborative Usher Study (NCUS) in conjunction with Sense and the British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society. The study was based at London at the Institute of Child Health and at the Institute of Ophthalmology in Moorfields Eye Hospital, London (October 2008). Read more
Deafness Research UK awarded a grant to researcher, Dr Caroline Witton of Aston University, Birmingham, in the hope of improving treatment for children with auditory processing disorder (APD), though to affect around 10% of all UK children (October 2008). Read more
A study funded by Deafness Research UK, and carried out by Dr Margaret Tait at the Ear Foundation in Nottingham, investigated whether the age of implantation affects how children progress (October 2008). Read more
Deafness Research UK PhD student, Rosie Lovett, is working with Professor Quentin Summerfield at the University of York to look at the potential benefits to young children of being fitted with two cochlear implants (March 2008). Read more
Brain activity that is "scrambled" in deaf cats develops normally if they are fitted with a cochlear implant shortly after birth. The finding may explain how deaf children given implants as babies can learn to speak almost as well as hearing children (January 2009). Read more
A Deafness Research UK team at the University of Oxford studied hearing impairment in newborn babies caused by a lack of oxygen during labour and delivery. Read more
A study conducted by the Better Hearing Institute in the United States found that most hearing impaired children receive insufficient help or treatment. Among the main reasons is a lack of or improper intervention by medical doctors, parents and teachers. Read more
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