National Technical Institute for the Deaf/Rochester Institute of Technology has announced its third annual Digital Arts, Film and Animation Competition for students with hearing loss in grades 9 through 12. This national competition recognizes... read more »
The Deafness Research Foundation (DRF) is partnering with the American Academy of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery’s (AAO-HNS) CORE Grants Program to offer a new one-year grant of $50,000... read more »
The Deafness Research Foundation (DRF) requests applications from both new applicants, and DRF awardees applying for a second year of funding, who are dedicated to exploring new avenues of hearing and balance science. All... read more »
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (JRRD) today released Volume 45, Issue 5, a special issue on cochlear prostheses for adults with hearing impairments. Hearing loss is among the most... read more »
DRF Council of Scientific Trustees member Dr. Steven D. Rauch of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary writes in the New England Journal of Medicine on Idiopathic Sudden Senrorineural Hearing Loss. This... read more »
Special Toys for Special Kids
The 15th edition of the Toys“R”Us “Toy Guide for Differently-Abled Kids” is
now available. It offers a wide variety of toy options categorized with
symbols indicating the... read more »
New York Times article on how hearing loss may be more widespread than previously believed; article by Eric Nigourney.
USA Today article on hearing loss in the military; article by Gregg Zoroya.
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To celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Deafness Research Foundation, The New York Stock Exchange Euronext welcomed the DRF on Wednesday, November 21, 2007. Andrea Kardonsky, Chief Operating Officer, had the honor of ringing the... read more »
Brain scientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered how cells in the developing ear make their own noise, long before the ear is able to detect sound around them. The finding, reported in this week's Nature, helps to explain how the developing... read more »
