Patient Education Information

Deaf or Hard-Of-Hearing: Working With Your Doctor - This fact sheet offers great advice on how to talk to your doctor.

Hearing: Noise-Induced Hearing Loss - This handout, prepared by the American Academy of Family Physicians, provides general overview on noise-induced hearing loss.

Hearing Loss - NIH Senior Health has prepared this information.

Hearing Problems in Young Children - This page, also prepared by the American Academy of Family Physicians, contains a questionnaire used to identify signs of hearing problems in young children.

Straight Talk From the FDA On Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids - Check out this site for great information.

Ten Ways To Recognize Hearing Loss - The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders has created this little quiz.

Deafness and Hearing Loss Fact Sheets - This is a publication of the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities.

Dial 711 For Communication Services or
Speech-To-Speech Relay Service or Telecommunications Relay Service or Video Relay Services - The Federal Communications Commission offers this information.

Fire Safety for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing - The United States Fire Administration has prepared this information.

Hearing Aids - The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders provides this information on several types of hearing aids and how they work.

Hearing Aid Myths and Facts - The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association offers this information.

Hearing, Ear Infections and Deafness - The National Institute on Deafness and other Communications Disorders has created this site.

Hearing Loss and Older Adults - More great information from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

Inquiring Ears Want to Know: A Fact Sheet about Your Hearing Test - This fact sheet comes from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia - The Health Illustrated Encyclopedia from MedlinePlus includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations. Please check the alphabetic listing for the topic you want.

What's Hearing Loss? - This information, from KidsHealth, is designed for kids, but you adults can read it too.