Hearing impairment is an invisible impairment. Accordingly, the barriers of people with hearing impairment have to be clarified with care. Thus, people who were born deaf, for example, face different ...

Hearing impairment has emerged as a potential risk factor for Parkinson’s disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that primarily manifests with motor impairments like tremors, rigidity ...

Sensorineural hearing loss happens most often from damage to the hair cells in the inner ear. Other causes include damage to the nerve for hearing, called the auditory nerve, or the brain. It ...

In logistic regression analysis, the probability of spontaneous tinnitus was 63% in children with both hearing impairment and TTS and 27% in children without hearing impairment or TTS.

“The Killer’s Game” actor Terry Crews spoke to CNN in an interview about how a long-term, common hearing impairment has helped him master the art of physical comedy.

Most hearing impairment is inherited. Of all types of inherited deafness only one third is present at birth. Another third starts during childhood and the other third only manifests in adulthood.

Hearing loss severity was linked with cognitive impairment in a study on middle-aged adults. But wearing hearing aids didn’t lower the odds for cognitive impairment, the data showed.

To qualify for this designation, applicants must demonstrate a hearing loss with a pure tone average of 500, 1,000 and 2,000 hertz of 41 decibels or greater in the better ear, ...