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Sound Advice

10 Golden Rules to Prevent Hearing Loss

The most important points to know about preventing hearing loss.

Acoustic Neuroma

This is a condition in which a tumour appears in the inner ear.

Audiologists - who are they?

Professionals trained to assess and rehabilitate hearing.

Children′s Hearing in the Classroom

How classroom acoustics can improve a child′s ability to learn.

Cochlear Implants

An electronic device that can deliver sound for the significantly deaf.

Funding Options for Hearing Aids

Subsidies and funding options available for hearing aids.

Glue Ear

A condition in which a glue-like fluid builds up in the middle ear.

Hearing Aid User′s Quiz

Try our quiz and find out how well your hearing aids are working.

Hearing Aids

Devices that deliver sound through a tiny ear microphone.

Hearing Loss Causes

The most common causes of hearing loss.

Hearing Loss - what is it?

The most common types of hearing loss.

Hearing Screening for Babies

How babys hearing can be screened within first days of life.

How Sound Travels

A graphic of sound travelling from the ear to the brain.

Mobile Phones and Hearing Aids

How to select a mobile phone if you use a hearing aid.

New Zealand Sign Language

New Zealand Sign Language is a language that is unique to New Zealand.

Noise Damage

What is noise damage and how can it cause hearing loss?

Noise in the Work Place

Noise control programmes can make your work place safer.

Noise Levels

A graphic indicating sound levels you may be exposed to.

Open Captions

Movies with open captions are showing throughout New Zealand.

Personal FMs

Device to enhance the sound signal to a hearing-assisted child.

Sound Access in Public Places

Listening systems that can increase hearing in the community.

Sound Fields

A system that distributes voice evenly throughout a room.

Telephone Relay Service

Instant two-way communication via a home telephone.

Teletext Captions

Provided by TVNZ Captioning (with funding from New Zealand On Air), to assist with following television programmes on TV ONE, TV2 and TV3.

Test Your Child′s Hearing

A quick guide to your child′s hearing abilities by age.

Tinnitus

Noises heard that are unrelated to any actual sounds.

Workbridge Video Conferencing Equipment

Workbridge video conferencing equipment for the deaf and hearing impaired.

 

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