Directory of Hearing Aids Resources

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A hearing aid is an electroacoustic apparatus which typically fits in or behind the wearer's ear, and is designed to amplify and modulate sound for the wearer.

Resources in This Category

• About.com: Implantable Hearing Aids and Devices

  http://deafness.about.com/od/hearingaidbasics/a/implantableaids.htm
  Provides information about both surgically implanted and non-surgically implanted devices.

• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: Hearing Aids

  http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/treatment/hearing_aids.htm
  Provides information about the types of hearing aids and other listening devices available and their likely cost.

• Attitudes of Hearing Impaired Children and Their Parents to the Use of Colourful Hearing Aids

  http://www.les-smith.com/coloured-hearing-aids/
  Study caried out in the UK in the year 2000.

• National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders: Hearing Aids

  http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/hearing/hearingaid.asp
  Answers to many frequently asked questions on hearing aids.

• Wikipedia: Hearing Aid

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_aid
  Article from Wikipedia providing information on the various types of hearing aid, the technology involved, who will benefit from them and the costs involved.

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