October

National Protect Your Hearing Month

The Acoustical Society of America observes National Protect Your Hearing Month each October to help raise awareness about the importance of protecting your hearing. For more information and resources about the causes and prevention of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL), visit the NIDCD It’s a Noisy Planet. Protect Their Hearing.® campaign website.

Activities

These are all activities you can do at home to learn about the importance of protecting your hearing.

Coloring Sheets

Learn how to protect your ears from loud sounds with 4 different printable loud sounds coloring sheets.

Dangerous Decibels Exhibit

Learn about loud sounds in this virtual exhibit with games, demonstrations and activities.

Acoustics Today

Read hearing science and hearing relating research published in Acoustics Today!

Why Was Your Hearing Tested - Two Centuries of Progress

Learn about the history of the evaluation of hearing loss.

Psychoacoustics of Tinnitus- Lost in Translation

Tinnitus is the perception of sound without an external source, often experienced as a constant or frequent ringing, humming, or buzzing.

The Remarkable Cochlear Implant and Possibilities for the Next Large Step Forward

The modern cochlear implant is an astonishing success; however, room remains for improvement and greater access to this already marvelous technology.

Hearing and Aging Effects on Speech Understanding: Challenges and Solutions

Development of effective, evidence-based solutions to overcoming communication barriers imposed by hearing loss is critical in our rapidly aging population.

Regeneration of Auditory Hair Cells: A Potential Treatment for Hearing Loss on the Horizon

Regeneration of cochlear hair cells is being investigated as a potential therapy for hearing impairments.

Middle Ear Biomechanics- Smooth Sailing

The middle ear is tasked with transmitting sound from the low-density, highly compressible air in the ear canal to the high-density nearly incompressible fluid in the cochlea.

Ambient Noise Is “The New Secondhand Smoke”

Excessive ambient noise causes hearing loss; disrupts sleep, function, and communication; and causes nonauditory health effects for millions of people.

Preventing Occupational Hearing Loss

Proactive hearing loss prevention programs that reduce workplace noise are shifting the focus from documentation of an injury to the prevention of occupational hearing loss.

How Our Brains Make Sense of Noisy Speech

When dealing with noise, whether in a restaurant or another potentially loud environment, the mammalian brain has evolved ways to extract a signal of importance from the noisy surround.