Resources

Below are valuable organizations that are committed to helping SoundPrint raise noise pollution and hearing health awareness and find quieter spots – check them out!

Research and Education

The mission of Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) is to prevent and cure hearing loss and tinnitus through groundbreaking research and to promote hearing health. HHF is the largest nonprofit funder of hearing and balance research in the U.S. and a leader in driving new innovations and treatments for people with hearing loss, tinnitus, and other hearing disorders.

The core purpose of the American Tinnitus Association is to promote relief, prevent, and find cures for tinnitus, evidenced by its core values of compassion, credibility, and responsibility.

Educates and promotes awareness of damage to our hearing caused by continued exposure to loud sounds.

Products and Technology

Whisper is a team of artificial intelligence, hearing care, hardware, and software experts coming together to solve the challenge of providing better hearing. We set out to build the Whisper Hearing System so our parents, grandparents, friends and teammates can have a tomorrow that sounds better than today. Whisper’s flagship hearing aid, the Whisper Hearing System, is the first hearing aid that gets better over time.

Audio Cardio is a data and science backed mobile hearing test and therapy that aims to protect, maintain and improve hearing.

Founded in 2014, Your Ears Rock is an innovative company offering a wide range of stylish and useful hearing protection products designed to prevent hearing loss due to excessive noise and music, comfort sensory sensitivities, help increase concentration and productivity, improve studying, test taking, and relaxation.

 

Advocacy and Community

The goal of the nonprofit Ear Peace Foundation is to raise awareness of Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) among young people and motivate them to take simple and effective measures to protect their hearing.

An organization concerned about the impact of noise on health, environment, learning, productivity and quality of life. A very good resource for all things quiet-related.

Better Hearing Australia

Better Hearing Australia (Brisbane) is a not-for-profit consumer advocacy group offering advocacy and peer support for people in Queensland experiencing hearing loss. BHA (Brisbane) was established in 1947 and continues to maintain a philosophy of self-help and draws on the value of lived experience in all its services; from informal, volunteer-led support groups, online teaching modules; and supply and installation of hearing loop systems and assistive listening devices.

Living With Hearing Loss | A Hearing Loss Blog

An excellent blog for people with hearing loss. I refer many of my normal hearing friends here to better understand the daily experience of being hearing impaired.

Quiet Ann Arbor is the first Quiet chapter in the United States. The Mission is to encourage quieter and pleasant shared spaces for all individuals including those with noise sensitive conditions such as hearing deficits, ADHD, and autism.

Hearing Loss Association of America

Organization that represents people with hearing loss and provides assistance and resources to learn about how to adjust to living with hearing loss.

Home

GrowNYC has responded to questions about noise including noisy restaurants for thirty years. It also directs readers to articles about the impacts of noise on mental and physical health, including hearing loss.

Deaf Expo is a conference in Lakeland, FL with the focus on encouraging the deaf community that they are not alone, disabled, or broken.  The conference is in October. Check them out here

Noise Free America: A Coalition to Promote Quiet is an advocacy organization focusing on noise from motorcycles,
gas-powered leaf blowers, and loud car stereos.

 

Professional Services

Established in 1910, the Center for Hearing and Communication provides high-quality, comprehensive services to empower people affected by hearing loss, deafness and listening challenges.

Sound Speech and Hearing Clinic, located in San Francisco, is dedicated to speech therapy and audiology services for children and adults. Sound brings together speech, language, and hearing services seamlessly into one office.

As a nonprofit organization providing comprehensive and holistic services for over 100 years, their mission is to provide life-long professional services to support all people with hearing or communication challenges in achieving their goals.

For over the past three decades, The Children’s Hearing Institute has helped improve the lives of children with hearing loss and their families through pioneering research, education, and therapeutic efforts.

WCC, located in Silicon Valley, is committed to teaching children to listen, speak and learn. Their mission is to leverage early diagnosis, intervention and comprehensive parent training to help children with hearing loss reach their full potential.