The RNID has called for more awareness training and an improvement in facilities across the leisure industry.

BBC: Deaf people 'feel excluded'

Dr Ralph Holme, biomedical research manager at the RNID, the charity for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, welcomed the research.

BBC: NEWS | Health | Hope for better baby hearing test

The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) predicted that young MP3 users will have the hearing of someone aged 60 when they are just 40 years old, Liberal Democrat Bob Russell told the Commons in an adjournment debate on 23 March 2010.

BBC: Nation's hearing at risk from loud MP3 players - MP