2. Hearing is Important
• Since Before Birth
• An unborn child picks up
• sounds
• voices
• accents
• music
• The child stores them as
• unconscious memories.
• Later the child
• associates these familiar sounds with safety and security.
3. Not Hearing
• “Blindness separates people from
things.
• Deafness separates people from
people.”
• ~ Immanuel Kant
4. Hearing is Social Contact
• To establish contact with other people,
• holding an intimate conversation or
• simply laughing together
•Hearing means communication
and is an irreplaceable
component of our social lives.
9. Hearing is Linked to Emotion
• Music
• the rushing of waves
• the twittering of birds
10. Hearing is Linked to Emotion
• Music
• the rushing of waves
• the twittering of birds
11. Hearing is Linked to Emotion
• Music
• the rushing of waves
• the twittering of birds
• the laughter of children
12. Hearing is Linked to Emotion
• Music
• the rushing of waves
• the twittering of birds
• the laughter of children
13. Hearing is Linked to Emotion
• Music
• the rushing of waves
• We all associate emotional moments with unforgettable
hearing experiences.
14. Hearing is Linked to Emotion
• Music
• the rushing of waves
• We all associate emotional moments with unforgettable
hearing experiences.
15. • According to the WHO, 15% of the
world population are currently affected
by hearing loss.
• The number of people affected
continues to rise due to the
demographic aging of our society and
the growing noise pollution in our
environment.
16. SUDDEN HEARING LOSS
WHEN THE EAR SUDDENLYNO LONGER FUNCTIONS
• Sensations:
• Sudden deficiency in the form of a sense of pressure, as if
their ear was blocked by a piece of cotton wool
• Impression that their ear has somehow closed
• Usually accompanied by tinnitus
• sounds that resemble a high-pitched whistle (cicada-like)
• ring
• hiss
• or hum
17. SUDDEN HEARING LOSS
• Although this form of hearing loss, occurring completely
out of the blue, is a condition affecting a growing number
of people, its causes are as yet unknown. Sudden
hearing loss can probably be attributed to the interaction
of physical and psychological factors that combine to
place the organism under undue pressure, something
often subsumed today under headings such as "stress"
or "burnout syndrome".
18. PAYING THE PRICE FOR
OVERSTRAINING THE BODY
• "At the time, I was recording in the States and had spent
the day singing in the studio. Then I collected my
daughter from school. We got home, had something to
eat, played a video game. Then suddenly my ear went
sssssssshh. Within a second my left ear simply closed
down. As if I had been under water. I tried to clear it by
pinching my nose. But it made no difference. So I
thought it will sort itself out. But it didn’t."
• ~Phil Collins
19. • 8. If you’re talking to someone who is having a hard time
hearing you, try changing your wording or lowering your
voice.
• Commander_Shepard_: People who are hard of hearing are
unable to hear certain frequencies very well. It varies,
obviously. But yelling at them is rude and doesn’t work at all.
Speak normally first, then allow the person to ask for
clarification. If they do, speak a tad slower and maybe with a
deeper voice (usually it's higher frequencies that go first).
• Commander_Shepard_: I was a nursing student. It was one of
the first things they taught us for socializing and conversing
with the elderly, for whom this is rather common. Speaking
more loudly won't make the hair fibers targeted towards mid
range freqs pick up any more then they can. The high freqs are
dead.
Taking to deaf people is easier then ever before now. Sign
language has always been there, but I know a deaf dude and
he just texts everything and everyone. He tells me how much
of a miracle mms and texting has been for him.
20.
21.
22. Primary Auditory Cortex
Image by James.mcd.nz - self-made - reproduction of
combined images Surfacegyri.JPG by Reid Offringa
and Ventral-dorsal streams.svg by Selket. Licensed
under GFDL via Wikimedia Commons
• Highlighted
in magenta
• Known to
interact
with all
areas
highlighted
on this
neural map
Editor's Notes
The ability to hear is such an integral part of our lives that most people take it for granted. The importance of good hearing and the consequences of hearing loss are still underestimated, even though the facts speak a very different language. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 15% of the world population are currently affected by hearing loss. The number of people affected by hearing loss continues to rise due to the demographic aging of our society and the growing noise pollution in our environment. Added to that comes the fact that, according to the UN children’s fund Unicef, over 665,000 children are born with significant hearing loss annually.
Those affected often experience a sudden deficiency (it usually only affects one ear but can lead to permanent loss of hearing) in the form of a sense of pressure, as if their ear was blocked by a piece of cotton wool. Others get the impression that their ear has somehow closed. In most cases, sudden hearing loss is accompanied by tinnitus, in other words, you hear sounds in your ear that resemble a high-pitched whistle, or ring, or hiss, or hum, etc. http://www.insectsingers.com/100th_meridian_cicadas/ Although this form of hearing loss, occurring completely out of the blue, is a condition affecting a growing number of people, its causes are as yet unknown. Sudden hearing loss can probably be attributed to the interaction of physical and psychological factors that combine to place the organism under undue pressure, something often subsumed today under headings such as "stress" or "burnout syndrome".
