New International Standard for Personal Audio Devices Aims to Keep Your Hearing Safe

Newsletter Spring 2019

The Latest from Have You Heard? New International Standard for Personal Audio Devices Aims to Keep Your Hearing Safe The World Health Organization (WHO) and another agency within the United Nations—the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)—collaborated in developing a global standard for safe personal listening devices and systems. Read more > More from Have You Heard? May Is Better Hearing and Speech Month Each May, Noisy Planet joins the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in observing Better Hearing and Speech Month. Help spread the word about the importance of protecting your hearing. Read more > Research Helps Farmers Adopt Healthy Hearing Habits Working on a farm can be hazardous to your hearing health. One study found that farm workers who received an assortment of earplugs and earmuffs in the mail increased their use of hearing protection. Read more > In the Community Noisy Planet has new resources to help you spread the word about preventing hearing loss! We’ve developed two fun and colorful 11- by 17-inch posters that are perfect for educators and school nurses. A new Sounds are All Around poster drives home the key Noisy Planet prevention messages. Our new How Loud is Too Loud? poster uses information from our revamped and popular resource, the How Loud is Too Loud? bookmark, that explains how loud certain common sounds are, and how quickly they can damage hearing. In February, the Noisy Planet team led two train-the-trainer sessions at the National 4-H Youth Summit in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Thirty 4-H youth leaders learned how they can use the Noisy Planet Teacher Toolkit to demonstrate to preteens in their communities why and how to protect their hearing. The leaders also successfully used our activity demonstration videos to practice sharing their noise knowledge with an audience of their fellow 4-H youth leaders. For this spring’s Take Your Child to Work Day at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders led Noisy Planet presentations chock full of educational hands-on activities and demonstrations. Kids and parents learned about the science of sound waves, how the ear and brain process sounds and interpret different pitches, and how to prevent hearing damage from exposure to loud sounds over time.  This summer, the Noisy Planet team heads to Denver to deliver another Teacher Toolkit train-the-trainer session at the National Association of School Nurses annual conference. Many school nurses are active health communicators and interact daily with children and teens. Featured Shareable Images Set a safe maximum listening volume for yourself and your kids, Share this image on social media. Share this image on Facebook Share this image on Twitter Learn about three ways to protect your hearing. Share this animated GIF on social media.  Share this image on Facebook Share this image on Twitter