ReSound proudly sponsored Team Kyte for the hockey competition at the Canadian Deaf Games, held the last week in February in Winnipeg. The team went undefeated, bringing home the Gold Medal! Below is a first-hand account of the family’s experience. The Canadian Deaf Games: A Synopsis by Rob Kyte While Canadian Deaf Sports Association (CDSA) […]
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Braintree, Massachusetts has been home to many notable residents during its existence; politicians, musicians, sports figures and ReSound hearing aid wearer Leland “Lee” Dingee. Lee, 70, is a retired printing salesman, strategic sourcing buyer, city councilman and veteran of the United States Army. Don’t let his retired status fool you; Lee is still as active
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Firemen have one of the more dangerous job in the world. When others run out, they rush in. Fire and smoke aren’t the only hazards that can pose a threat to their health on a daily basis – noise can as well. Jeff Shupe can attest to that. Shupe is a retired firefighter who still
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Call this is a technology success story. That’s how Erin Carrigan might say it: technology that moves forward in small steps until that one really big leap. Erin Carrigan of Buchanan, Michigan works in healthcare and is a student at Indiana University. She is studying psychology and plans to become a physician’s assistant. Erin was
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Stephen Straus begins each day with a commute by train. It’s about an hour from his home in Hyde Park to his job in downtown Chicago—and all those train rides mean hours of music. But Mr. Straus lives with hearing loss, so he’s had to struggle with various music players and headphones. “The [headphone] wires
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Pete Townshend, longtime guitarist for The Who was born May 19, 1945, has lived with hearing loss for nearly 50 years. On September 17, 1967, The Who exploded onto the U.S. music scene—literally. Keith Moon, the celebrated and eccentric drummer for The Who loaded a few extra explosives (a few more than usual) into his drum
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By Mercy Semeyian Though still a young adult, I have battled to retain my hearing for years. My trouble started a few months before sitting (for) my final primary education examination. In Kenya, our final year is full of intense revision, internal exams and peak preparation. One fine but cold morning I woke with an
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The Reeves have two children with hearing loss and discovered how ReSound hearing aids could help their family communicate. We are parents to two children with sensory neural hearing loss. Brady now 22 and Curtis 19. Brady was diagnosed with a hearing loss at age 4 and Curtis was only 8 months. We were set
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Living with hearing loss can have an isolating effect. When we cannot hear others, we tend to withdraw. Oddly enough, that very factor of withdrawal was something Thomas Edison, inventor extraordinaire, counted on. Silence became his happy, productive place. It seems Mr. Edison either acquired a childhood bout with Scarlet Fever or was boxed on
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Rick Ledbetter is an active musician, bass player, writer, and producer, with his own digital audio production studio. He’s also a demanding hearing aid wearer with a profound hearing loss. Rick plays five-string bass that has a low B at 32 Hz, so clean amplification of the low frequencies is critical. Hearing—and hearing well—is a big
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