Protect Your Hearing With Sound Pressure Limiting Technology

I read an article on-line this morning that caused me great alarm:

"According to the American Academy of Audiology, “approximately 12 percent of all children ages 6-19 have noise induced hearing loss”. With the current popularity of MP3 players and other portable audio devices, there is some concern that users may be causing permanent hearing damage from cranking up the volume too loud.

This was part of a post on the CEA Digital Dialogue (CEA= Consumer Electronics Association) written by Guest Blogger, Med Dyer, co-founder and chief technology officer at dB Logic.

I have seen children with ear-buds and head-phones and been tempted at times to ask my 10 year-old to put them on at times (frankly, to save me from having to listen to a particular song or the repeating music from a video game)... buy my wife who holds a degree in Early Childhood Education cautioned me against this for the concern over hearing damage - which is apparently more prone to occur in young kids.

This article bears this out -- apparently hearing loss has risen nearly 30 percent in the last decade!  Apart from just turning down the volume on whatever device you're kids are listening to (and depending on them to do that while they're engaged in the movie, video or game) there is a newer method and that's to use headphones and earphones that limit sound pressure. 

These are headphones and earphones with built-in circuitry that limits the volume levels to a safe threshold that works to prevent short and long-term hearing damage. I will be checking their products out at the CES 2011 show in Las Vegas, Nevada next month  and will let you know my first-hand (or first-ear) impression. If you'd like to find out more now, you can visit the dB Logic Sound website.

And you can read the on-line article on this topic here: Protect Your Hearing With Sound Pressure Limiting Technology

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has a program titled Listen To Your Buds, a public education campaign that is aimed at preventing noise-induced hearing loss by helping parents teach their children how to use personal audio technology safely. You will find additional information and some helpful tips for kids and audio here: ListenToYourBuds.org

 

 

Comments

[Polatlı]

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