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Hearing, Ear Infections, and Deafness

Diseases and Conditions

• Age-Related Hearing Loss
• Auditory Neuropathy
• Auditory Processing Disorder
• Do You Need a Hearing Test? Interactive Quiz
• Ear Infections in Children
• Enlarged Vestibular Aqueducts and Childhood Hearing Loss
• Hearing Loss and Older Adults
• Journey of Sound to the Brain (video)
• Ménière's Disease
• Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
• Otosclerosis
• Pendred Syndrome
• Sudden Deafness
• Tinnitus
• Usher Syndrome
• Vestibular Schwannoma (Acoustic Neuroma) and Neurofibromatosis
• Who Can I Turn to for Help with My Hearing Loss?
• Why NIDCD Does Research: Helping People with Hearing Loss (video)

Protect Your Hearing

• Hearing Protection: How to Use Formable Earplugs (video)
• Hearing Protection: How to Use Pre-Molded Earplugs (video)
• It’s a Noisy Planet. Protect Their Hearing®
• Listen Up! Protect Your Hearing (infographic)
• Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
• Tinnitus

Communication Methods & Devices for People With Hearing Loss

• American Sign Language
• Assistive Devices for People with Hearing, Voice, Speech, or Language Disorders
• Captions For Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Viewers
• Cochlear Implants
• Hearing Aids
• Telecommunications Relay Services

Features

• Journey of Sound to the Brain (video) - Learn how sounds make their way from the source to your brain.

   

• Hearing Protection: How to Use Formable Earplugs (video)

   

For Parents

• Ear Infections in Children
• Your Baby's Hearing and Communicative Development Checklist
• Your Baby's Hearing Screening

For Educators and Health Professionals

• It’s a Noisy Planet. Protect Their Hearing® - A national campaign to prevent noise-induced hearing loss in 8- to 12-year-old children
• Noisy Planet Teacher Toolkit - Provides easy-to-use resources for fun activities to teach preteens about the causes and prevention of noise-induced hearing loss
• Statistics and Epidemiology