Fact sheet: Make your venue hearing friendly
Hotels, motels, and serviced apartments should provide hearing access facilities and special services to their guests.
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Fact sheet: Treating hearing impairment
How hearing impairment is treated will depend on the underlying cause of the condition. For people with sensorineural hearing loss, the condition is permanent.
Fact sheet: Different causes of hearing loss
Otosclerosis is a disease that causes bony growth on the ossicles and causes the stapes to become immobile, thus not allowing sound to be transferred into the cochlea.
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Fact sheet: Protect your ears from loud music
Noise levels at music festivals can reach 110 decibels or more. That’s like standing next to a jackhammer drilling into concrete. Damage to hearing cannot be reversed.
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Fact sheet: Noise destroys
Thirty seven percent of hearing loss is due to noise injury, which could have been prevented.
Fact sheet: Living with hearing loss
Hearing and quality of life are closely linked. Poor hearing affects both the person with the loss and those they communicate with. A comprehensive study conducted in the USA on the effects of untreated hearing loss on adults as well as their families found that hearing loss impacts on our social, emotional, psychological and physical wellbeing.