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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: hearing + loss + understanding  Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/5/2008)

Screening: Higher Rates of Hearing Loss Are Found
New York Times, United States -
By ERIC NAGOURNEY A new study suggests that hearing loss among Americans may be more widespread than believed. Writing in the current issue of Archives of ...
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Gene Mutation & Hearing Loss
Oneindia, India -
University of Michigan scientists have found a gene mutation that can lead to inherited form of hearing loss. Dr. Marci Lesperance, associate professor of ...
Inherited hearing loss linked to mutation United Press International
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Soldier's story shows risks of hearing loss (1/4ページ)
MSN産経ニュース, Japan -
Hearing loss is one of the most common ailments that affects troops sent back to combat, according to the Pentagon and government researchers. ...
Dealing with a gradual loss of hearing
Irish Times, Ireland -
Between the ages of 60 and 70, approximately 25 per cent of people report a hearing impairment. The type and degree of hearing loss will vary from person to ...
Soldier's story illustrates risks of hearing loss in war zones
USA Today - Aug 3, 2008
"He's going to have one hell of a time understanding what people say, if he can't get visual cues," Cacace says, adding Dunne has the hearing of a ...
Study launched as noise-induced hearing loss on the rise
Massey News, New Zealand -
Noise-induced hearing loss is on the increase with New Zealanders making claims for compensation at the rate of 11 cases a day and at a cost of over $43 ...
Untreated Hearing Loss Puts Children at Risk, Better Hearing ...
Earthtimes (press release), UK -
4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Too many children with hearing loss aren't getting adequate help and are being put at risk for social, emotional, behavioral, ...
There's no need to suffer in silence
Akron Beacon Journal, OH -
Some programs to help pay for hearing aids might be available from nonprofit and government agencies. Hearing loss affects more than 28 million Americans, ...
Congressman Kind Plays Key Role in Passage of the Higher Education ...
MarketWatch -
In the United States, one out of three adults suffers from some amount of hearing loss, and one out of six adults has difficulty discerning speech. ...
Digital hearing aid: a real boon
Newindpress, India -
FOR some people, Hearing loss could be even for all the Frequency. A conventional / Analog-Hearing aid with standard amplification could address their ...
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… Correlates of Speech Understanding Deficits in Elderly Listeners with Mild-to-Moderate Hearing Loss … -
PL Divenyi, KM Haupt - Ear and Hearing, 1997 - ear-hearing.com
... Audiological Correlates of Speech Understanding Deficits in Elderly Listeners
with Mild-to-Moderate Hearing Loss. II. Correlation Analysis. ...

… Correlates of Speech Understanding Deficits in Elderly Listeners with Mild-to-Moderate Hearing Loss … -
PL Divenyi, KM Haupt - Ear and Hearing, 1997 - ear-hearing.com
... Correlations between sensorineural hearing loss and deficits of speech understanding
when the speech target is presented either in reverberation (Nabelek& ...

Language of Early-and Later-identified Children With Hearing Loss -
C Yoshinaga-Itano, AL Sedey, DK Coulter, AL Mehl - Pediatrics, 1998 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... The presence of disabilities in addition to hearing loss was reported by the ... 67 items
that measure language comprehension from simple understanding to concept ...

Mutation in Transcription Factor POU4F3 Associated with Inherited Progressive Hearing Loss in Humans -
O Vahava, R Morell, ED Lynch, S Weiss, ME Kagan, N … - Science, 1998 - sciencemag.org
... loss in understanding of speech by age 65 (1). Defining the molecular events leading
to deafness may form the basis for new ways to help the hearing-impaired ...

[BOOK] Cochlear hearing loss -
BCJ Moore - 1998 - whurr.co.uk
... DESCRIPTION: The aim of this text is to impart an understanding of the changes in
perception associated with cochlear hearing loss, of the difficulties faced ...
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Electric-Acoustic Stimulation of the Auditory System New Technology for Severe Hearing Loss -
C von Ilberg, U Frankfurt, K f?r Hals-Nasen- … - Logo, 1999 - content.karger.com
... we observed a clear training effect whereby the monosyllable understanding with
HA and ... EAS in cases with severe to profound high-frequency hearing loss (670 dB ...

Can age-related decline in speech understanding be explained by peripheral hearing loss?
J Jerger - J Am Acad Audiol, 1992 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
J Am Acad Audiol. 1992 Jan;3(1):33-8. Can age-related decline in speech
understanding be explained by peripheral hearing loss? Jerger ...

Children with Minimal Sensorineural Hearing Loss: Prevalence, Educational Performance, and … -
FH Bess, J Dodd-Murphy, RA Parker - Ear and Hearing, 1998 - ear-hearing.com
... 15 to 40 dB HL) do experience difficulty understanding speech under ... and educational
problems of children with minimal sensorineural hearing loss (MSHL) and ...

Distortion product emissions in humans. III. Influence of sensorineural hearing loss. -
GK Martin, LA Ohlms, DJ Franklin, FP Harris, BL … - Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol Suppl, 1990 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... agent glycerol in an ear displaying a mild to moderate hearing loss due to ... of a
sensorineural disorder may contribute to the eventual understanding of the ...

Hearing Loss, Aging, and Speech Perception in Reverberation and Noise -
KS Helfer, LA Wilber - Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 1990 - ASHA
... Further, many older adults with minimal amounts of peripheral hearing loss
demonstrated difficulty understanding distorted consonants. ...

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Understanding Hearing Loss
Prof. Karen Avraham, chair of the department of human molecular genetics and biochemistry at Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine, represented EuroHear, a consortium of 25 European, Israeli and U.K.-based research teams, at the European Union conference "Hearing and Seeing: European Research to Fight Deafness and Blindness," held at Paris's College de France.

This fall, Prof. Avraham will visit the U.S. to address several Tel Aviv University:American Council groups on recent advances in research on hearing impairments.
Twelve-million euros have gone into funding EuroHear, in which Prof. Avraham plays a leading role. Attendees at the conference included hundreds of academic representatives as well as patient groups, who are instrumental in helping scientists understand hearing loss.

"The goal of the conference was to bring researchers and clinicians -- who work with both the deaf and blind -- together to discuss each other's strides made in their respective fields," says Prof. Avraham, an American-Israeli geneticist, whose field of research, genomics, aims to investigate the biological mechanisms that can lead to hearing disorders.

Prof. Avraham's work demonstrates that geopolitical issues should not be allowed to hinder academic and scientific collaboration. Her laboratory at the Sackler School has taken part in discovering key genes for deafness in the Israeli and Palestinian populations, and she and her Palestinian colleague, Prof. Moien Kanaan, have helped identify 10 hearing loss genes. Together, as an example of Tel Aviv University's commitment to cross-cultural academic and scientific collaboration, they have become renowned for a unique multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the high incidence of genetic deafness among Palestinian children.

Most recently, Prof. Avraham's group discovered a new type of hearing impairment in Israel called OTSC4, a form with onset in early adulthood. Other landmark gene discovery research conducted by Prof. Avraham is now being used in diagnostic tests for patients.

"Knowing one's genetic predisposition can certainly aid clinicians today and in the future for developing treatments and therapies to prevent further loss. One day a cure may be within reach," says Prof. Avraham, stressing the importance of international academic collaboration to achieve further breakthroughs.
European figures for hearing impairment mirror those in the U.S. Over 10% of the E.U. population suffer some kind of hearing impairment, a figure rising to 40% among those 75 and older. The costs of managing hearing loss are considerable in terms of physical, social and mental well-being, educational development and employment. Early identification of such conditions and intervention are therefore extremely important for society.

For more information on Prof. Abraham's research, visit http://www.tau.ac.il/~karena/.

Tel Aviv University: American Council supports Israel's leading center of higher learning, the largest Jewish university anywhere. It is ranked among the world's top 100 universities in science, biomedical studies, and social science, and rated one of the world's top 200 universities overall. Internationally recognized for the scope and groundbreaking nature of its research programs, Tel Aviv University consistently produces work with profound implications for the future.

Source: Karin Kloosterman
Tel-Aviv University American Council
 
 
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