Welcome to Hearing Aids
Throw Away Hearing Aids Article
This is a selection made from among articles on Throw Away Hearing Aids. For a permanent link to this article, or to bookmark it for future reading, click here.
from:
Hearing Loss: The Hidden Disability
By Don Doman
Hearing loss is a hidden disability. As such it doesnt get the political and financial support that more obvious handicaps receive from government and private organizations. Hearing loss is the number one disability in the world as well as the number one birth defect among infants . . . and yet, nothing has really been done about it.
Blind children learn to read Braille and graduate from high school at the same reading levels as their sighted peers. Deaf children even with help of American Sign Language generally graduate at the fourth grade level.
What starts out as a hearing problem is really a communication problem. If youve never heard, you dont know what words sound like, so you cant speak. If you cant speak, you cant hear, you cant read, and cant write, how can you communicate? How can you get a job? The answer is they dont.
Combine the birth defects problem with hearing loss from a noisy world and the loss of hearing as we grow older and you have a major problem. Even if a problem is hidden, its still a problem. And it wont go away.
When severely hearing handicapped Clover Park Rotarian Gene Pankey learned about research underway to restore hearing by re-growing inner ear hair cells, he put into action what today is known as Rotarians for Hearing Regeneration (RfHR: www.hearingregeneration.org). What better way to tackle a world-wide problem than to address a world-wide organization? Several decades ago Rotary began working for the elimination of Polio. Today that goal is just about realized.
Handicapped since a childhood by total hearing loss in one ear, Pankey suffered hearing loss episodes in his good ear. That brought him into the realm of those involved with research underway at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Research has discovered that birds spontaneously re-grow inner ear hair cells, thus restoring their hearing. That research has provided a dawning of Rotarian involvement. The small group of Rotarians decided to try helping researchers by educating Rotarians and others about the possibilities of restoring hearing in mammals by regenerating hair cells. The thinking is, If birds can do it, why cant we?
Pankey, Rotary District 5020 Past District Governor Dave Sclair, and Dr. David Cotant, also a Clover Park Rotarian, formed todays RfHR and set about trying to educate Rotarians and help raise 20 million dollars to support the research program.
Education efforts have included a PowerPoint show, an 11-minute video, brochures, and making numerous presentations to clubs, conferences, and a booth at the 100th anniversary Rotary convention in Chicago.
Today, RfHR has members all over the United States and several other countries. Approximately 2,000 copies of the video Hope For Hearing Loss: The Hearing Regeneration Initiative have been distributed. An updated version of the video is in the works. Fundraising has continued without interruption and more efforts are planned.
RfHR has joined forces with the Hard of Hearing Hall of Fame (www.hardofhearinghalloffame.com), which is dedicated to recognizing achievement from the hearing impaired and educating people about hearing loss, thereby reducing hearing problems.
Research funds are still far from the overall goal, but all donations help. 2006 saw matching funds cover half a million dollars, and in 2007 there are matching funds available for the first million donated. RfHR hopes its publicity and education campaigns result in adequate funding that allows research to move ahead quickly. Hearing loss should not be hidden. By recognizing it, we may soon unlock the secrets of hearing loss and hearing restoration.
Don Doman is a published author, video producer, and corporate trainer. He owns the business training site Ideas and Training (http://www.ideasandtraining.com), which he says is the home of the no-hassle "free preview" for business training videos. He is also the founder of the Hard of Hearing Hall of Fame (http://www.hardofhearinghalloffame.com) and a board member of Rotarians for Hearing Regeneration.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Don_Doman
http://EzineArticles.com/?Hearing-Loss:-The-Hidden-Disability&id=334008
Throw Away Hearing Aids Specific links
High end living, high end jewelry.
- JustLuxe.com, all your premium quality needs in one place.
-- http://www.justluxe.com/
Blinkx Video Search
- World's largest video search engine. Over 26 million hours of video. Watch it all!
-- http://www.blinkx.com/
Watch Funny Videos!
- Click here to see funny videos, pictures, jokes, commercials, and more funny stuff from Comedy.com.
-- http://www.comedy.com/
Watch Free Videos At Mevio!
- Tons of Free Videos, Only At Mevio.com
-- http://www.mevio.com/
Free Tech and Gadget Reviews!
- Watch GeekBrief With Cali Lewis on Mevio!
-- http://www.geekbrief.mevio.com/
Throw Away Hearing Aids News
Cribs: White House edition - Los Angeles Times Blogs
Sure, MTV’s “Cribs” is great and all -- it’s always fun to tour Mariah Carey’s palatial closet, or ponder why so many rappers have aquariums -- but C-SPAN has an even juicier home show on the way: a tour of Barack Obama's future home. On ...
Read more...November 2008 - Posts - MSNBC Firstread
For the Thanksgiving holiday, we are suspending our morning note (including First Thoughts) for next week. Don't fret too much, though. We will still be doing updates as usual throughout the day on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Patrick Gaspard will ...
Read more...Cheney, Gonzales face arraignment - Corpus Christi Caller
RAYMONDVILLE — A Texas judge has set a Friday arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a state senator and others named in indictments accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a South ...
Read more...Join the Discussion - Media Matters
Summary: Discussing actions by individual protesters of Proposition 8, Newt Gingrich stated: "I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment ...
Read more...WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE... BEING COMPLETELY RESHOT? - Chud.com
We're on the verge of losing a movie. Spike Jonze's version of Where the Wild Things Are is a film with an uncertain future as executives behind the scenes at Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures are right now trying to figure out whether or not to ...
Read more...Community Calendar - Arlington Heights Post
Highland Park Chamber of Commerce invites business people to attend the following events. To find out more about the chamber or make a reservation, call (847) 432-0284 or send e-mail to chamber@ehighlandpark.com. Windy City Young Professionals is a ...
Read more...December 2 - December 9 - Dakota Voice
► January 16 - January 23 (1) Once again the Arkansas Journal has cast the light of public attention on Mike Huckabee's record of being soft on lawbreakers. In this past week, the story of Huckabee's advocacy of the release of Wayne Dumond, the ...
Read more...Catholic priest in South Carolina tells parishioners who voted for ... - Religionblog.dallasnews.com
In a letter distributed at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville, S.C., the Rev. Jay Scott Newman says parishioners who supported Barack Obama (or, as the priest put it, "Barack Hussein Obama") are putting their souls at risk if they receive Holy ...
Read more...2008 (2665) - Dakota Voice
► January 16 - January 23 (1) I saw this Moonbat Rule Book posted at Free Republic today. According to the post, someone left it insecure at a Starbucks in Portland, Oregon where it was apparently captured by a Freeper Patrol. Like all classified ...
Read more...FBI testing white powder mailed to two LDS temples - ksl.com
I am a Mormon, but I have been somewhat sympathetic to the plight of those who struggle with homosexuality. Their weakness carries such a stigma and isolates them from the rest of society. Life must be difficult for them. But, since the passage of ...
Read more...