Hearing-impaired people have found ways to communicate for generations, all across the world.
For example, in every state, you need a license to be a barber, a hearing-aid fitter or a pest-control worker.
The show finds tensions within intra-deaf relationships as well as hearing-deaf ones, including a lively romance between Bay and Emmett.
Hearing-aid styles fall roughly into two categories: devices worn outside the ear and those inside the ear, which are largely invisible.
Eventually, there may be the possibility that people with some hearing loss could be fitted with these devices to monitor their hearing-loss progression.
Merzenich built on that work to develop, with colleagues from UCSF, one of the first practical cochlear implants for the hearing-impaired, in the late 1980s.
Sevy, the owner of several hearing-aid shops and beauty salons, said he had been leaning Republican but wanted to see how Bush would perform under pressure.
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The hearing began with legal wrangling, with the investigating officer in the hearing - similar to a civilian judge - ultimately rejecting a defence request to recuse himself.
Tuesday's hearing - the first since Mr Pistorius broke down in court on Friday - began with the prosecutor saying the defendant had "shot an unarmed and innocent woman".
The arraignment hearing - in which the defendants are read the charges against them - was first delayed when Waleed bin Attash arrived in court restrained in his chair.
The hearing - which centred on the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in September 2012 - is likely to be Mr Panetta's last before he leaves office.
Judge Chin has called for a "status conference" to be held on 7 October - the original date for the hearing - to determine "how to proceed with the case as expeditiously as possible".
Lucid, sardonic, cinema-centric asides (especially one great set piece involving an aged, hearing-impaired movie technician from the silent-film era) adorn their all-night tangle of intimacy, building to a grungy, furiously self-deprecating .
The title of the hearing - "Securing the Modern Electric Grid from Physical and Cyber Attacks" - fails to communicate the magnitude of the danger, and the imperative for urgent corrective action.
You also are on your own when navigating hearing-aid providers, where you risk paying too much for hearing aids that make your life miserable because they don't fit, are hard to operate and overamplify background noises.
We're with the Bravo surgical unit that is responsible for taking care of a lot of the casualties that you and I have been hearing about -- that everyone has been hearing about -- from the front lines.
It also brings to mind a longstanding situation that persists in darkening an otherwise bright picture of post-Soviet Polish capitalism: that is, the current dispute between Telekomunikacja Polska S.A (Polish Telecom) and DPTG, a unit of Danish headset and hearing-aid maker GN Store Nord.
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Thanks in no small measure to Mr. Robinson's educational efforts on this front -- and those of others like Dr. Paul Marshall of Freedom House and Brian Kennedy of the Claremont Institute, who appeared with him at the JLAC hearing -- investors have begun to "vote with their feet" by divesting equity holdings in such companies.
More direct evidence from studies of experiments with animals and humans, however, suggests that we may have to alter the very concept of what we mean by hearing loss, and that current tests - particularly pure-tone audiometry which measures our ability to perform "pin-drop" hearing - may not be sufficient to pick up the early signs of a decline in hearing function.
No exact details of Howell's bank accounts and properties in the United States, Central America and south-east Asia were revealed at Friday's hearing or separately, at the pre-sentencing hearing involving his ex-lover Hazel Stewart.
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The Hear the World Foundation - set up by Swiss hearing products group Phonax to raise awareness about hearing loss - has warned that extended exposure to such noise risks permanent hearing loss.
The demo was interrupted by cheers from the audience, and attendees--hearing the commotion--crowded into the conference hall where Iguchi was speaking.
Just press and hold a button on the remote control and the My Beam function will instantly "beam" the sound in your direction -- useful for the hard-of-hearing or late-night movie fests while the rest of the household slumbers.
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Now, look, I talked to Peter Orszag right before I came here, because I suspected I'd be hearing this -- I'd be hearing this argument.
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He was recently fitted for a hearing aid -- one toll of being exposed to many explosions.
But after eight or nine years he can start the parole hearing process - straight away, it almost seems to us.
Dogs are capable of hearing high-frequency sounds imperceptible to the human ear.
Users that already received 28 are right back in line to receive the latest cut, which we're hearing T-Mobile wants to have out to everyone by November 12.
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Becoming socially withdrawn due to hearing loss - such as not going out or struggling with conversation - has been linked to cognitive decline and dementia in the past.
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