Awareness
Sex for the hearing (im)paired is enhanced by eroticising your limitations
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- Published on 16 June 2019
sex
Some engaging and certainly not premature advice on sex for persons with hearing loss is going viral among audiology tweeters after sex writer Anna Pulley addressed the ins and outs of the matter online in the Canadian-American magazine VICE.
Headline: Summer soccer solstice start for Sonova inclusive club
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- Published on 15 June 2019
awareness
Deaf Kenya rugby team dreams of try on world stage
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- Published on 12 June 2019
sport
Kenya's first deaf rugby team has its sights set on making an international impact, despite training without funding, with just the one ball for practices, and only mismatched pre-loved shirts to wear.
Major international awards scoop for Sonova short film "The Story of Jason Brügger"
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- Published on 08 May 2019
communication
Swiss hearing aid manufacturer Sonova has won seven major international awards—not for technology, not for design, but for a short film...and it's not the first time.
Love story film project about deaf girl crowdfunds for finance
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- Published on 23 April 2019
Movies
A fledgling film project steered by a director from Essex, UK, is seeking funding to tell the tale of a young deaf woman in love.
WHO app equips phones with hearing loss radar
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- Published on 02 April 2019
apps
A free app - "hearWHO" - for mobile devices has been launched by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to help users detect their own hearing loss.
US volunteer brigade brings humanitarian audiology to Nicaragua
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- Published on 25 March 2019
solidarity
An under-the-radar US volunteer brigade of ENT specialists has this month given some 400 people treatment and surgery as part of a humanitarian effort the country's hearing health must rely on.
Survey: UK and Northern Ireland citizens move fastest on hearing loss; Eire and Oz slowest
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- Published on 19 March 2019
Survey
A ten-country survey carried out on World Hearing Day this March 3 has revealed big national differences between the fastest and slowest to seek advice and treatment for the onset of hearing loss.
From invisible implants to bike helmets for CI users - MED-EL's Ideas4ears kids innovate young
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- Published on 18 March 2019
innovation
Inventors as young as seven and eight-years-old have impressed the Austrian hearing tech firm MED-EL enough to win these talents a trip to Innsbruck to discuss innovations ranging from surf-friendly implants to a bike helmet for a CI-wearing dad.
Finally, a hearing aid emoji
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- Published on 04 March 2019
communication
If one particular emoji has been conspicuously lacking to date from all electronic messaging in the audiology world, it is the hearing aid. Finally, this key symbol of sensory disability is soon to appear on our phone keyboards.
