Deafness: something not one human alive would want to face. According to the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), “one in five American teenagers already have some form of hearing loss. That is nearly 30% higher than it was in the 1980s and 1990s.” (par. one) Now, with the increase amount of music available and millions upon billions of videos to watch, it increases the amount of time people spend using earbuds and being on their phones. Most parents allow their children to use headphones freely, but what they do not know is that damage to the ears are slowly being done to their kids hearing health and there are no early signs to show it. Using earbuds is a now an effortless way listen to music without playing it aloud, consequently many …show more content…
Millennials are using this piece of technology without even knowing the severity that comes with it. This is not in the favor for earbud users because hearing loss can lead to overall deafness, and with deafness comes many negative impacts on lives both physically and mentally. This issue occurs worldwide and it is in the hands of the people to decide if they want to make a change for the better or not. As deafness is obtained, it can physically impact lives because communication and social activities would be a more difficult task to participate in. This can then lead to reduced job opportunities and personal goals that would be harder to achieve. Carol Baldwin, author of the book Hearing Loss states on page 9 that deafness can impact people's lives emotionally and mentally since studies have shown that hearing loss is linked to stress, depression, and the overall feeling of loneliness. Deafness can cause disorders like depression because the feeling of isolation from the outer-world can impact the mental stability in most people. The mental disorders can come from deafness because deafness leads to harder communication and frustration when communicating (Baldwin, 20). Overtime, the struggles one has in a social setting because of their deafness can lead to the overall feeling that they are worthless, ultimately leading to the person who is deaf to …show more content…
Foy of the American Osteopathic Association, common hand-held devices can produce sounds up to 120 decibels, this high level of noise can cause noise-induced hearing loss after only about an hour and 15 minutes of continuous listening. Several experts have stated that the increase of hearing loss among children may be caused the recurrent use of earbuds. Noise-Induced Hearing Loss from earbuds is generally a gradual and cumulative occurrence. There are no obvious signs that indicate the start of hearing loss, however, the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders suggests to avoid recurrent loud exposures to sounds at or above 85 decibels as much as possible because these high decibel levels can some form of noise-induced hearing loss (par. 6). The higher the decibel level is, the quicker it takes noise-induced hearing loss to occur. To hear, it relies on a series of events that change the sound waves in the air into electrical signals that get sent to the brain. The ear is split in three “parts” the outer, middle, and inner ear. The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders explains how sound waves enter in from the outer ear and travel through the ear canal which eventually leads to the eardrum. The eardrum then begins to vibrate from the sound and sends the vibrations to three minuscule bones in the middle ear, the malleus, incus, and stapes. These three bones in the middle ear transform the air sound waves
She gives three reasons in order to support her claim. The first reason is “teenagers exhibit what’s known as a slight hearing loss.” The author tried to convince to parents that if children constantly using headphones, they often cannot hear sounds at a low volume and they cannot make out consonants like T’s or K's. The second reason is “the danger of digital culture to young people is not that they have hummingbird attention spans but that they are going deaf.” In this reason, Heffernan wanted to show that how dangerous of headphones will cause. The last reason is headphone users who listen to music at high volume for more than an hour a day risk permanent hearing loss after five
I struggled to listen to the instructor and found myself having to work very hard to understand her then about an hour into class I began to lose focus and stopped paying attention. In this instance, I empathized with the children who have an unidentified hearing loss and struggle to pay attention in school. These children are often identified as having attention and behavior issues when in reality their hearing is the problem. This further emphasized the importance of services such as hearing aids, FM systems or other amplification methods to ensure that these children do not have to work so hard to understand
“Against Headphones” article by Virginia Heffernan talks about the dangerous things headphones do to teens. She says that 1 out of 5 teens have trouble hearing, believed to be caused by headphones. The amount of teens with hearing troubles has increased 33% since 1994. She states that people who listen to things with headphones daily have a higher chance of hearing loss.
Repeatedly, Heffernan mentions the hearing loss, and even states that young people are in danger of “. . . not having hummingbird attention spans, but going deaf.” By this, she is implying that the younger generations, which are typically thought of to have hyperactivity in the brain, may actually be going deaf. Seeing as how the audience of the article is young adults, it is apparent that the author is trying to scare them away from using headphones. By scaring the audience, she is further persuading them to think negatively of
Headphones have been in use for over a century, yet they have only recently become a topic of debate. Headphones are a way for people to listen to music, audiobooks, or whatever they like privately without disrupting others around them. However, all of this private listening may soon be falling on deaf ears. In Virginia Heffernan’s article “Against Headphones”, she presents a valid argument stating that although headphones are useful in some professions, they are causing substantial hearing loss, especially in young people. The formulated argument effectively incorporates ethos, logos, and opposing viewpoints with rebuttals, but could be strengthened in some areas to increase effectiveness.
Hearing is something people take for granted because living without it, is not something a lot of people know. With not knowing or even understanding the struggles a Deaf person goes through, comes a sense of discrimination from lack of understanding. Deaf people are sometimes paired with being unintelligent, this makes an immediate association of deafness to dumb. This societal barrier is one where deaf people are looked down upon for something they have no control over. Deaf people lack the opportunity of acceptance to prove themselves as something other than their disability. The immediate abhor that is
People who are in the deaf community resent cochlear implants for the effect it has on some people's lives they get happy knowing they can actually hear when they do use cochlear implants and hearing aids. When deaf people uses a cochlear implant they work in a certain degree in their lives deaf people can sometimes speak but some can’t speak at all when they are deaf they think hearing is an amazing thing for them because that’s their very first time actually hearing the world and what it is like to hear people and her other things in their life for once. Cochlear Implant is a good for a hearing person they get to hear everything in the world they never thought they would hear in their life about
A century has passed since the creation of headphones, yet they have only recently come under fire. Headphones provide a way for people to listen to music, audiobooks, and podcasts privately without disrupting others around them. However, all of this private listening may soon fall on deaf ears. In Virginia Heffernan’s article “Against Headphones”, she presents an argument stating that although headphones are useful in some professions, they cause substantial hearing loss, especially in young people. The formulated argument is effective and valid, and incorporates ethos, logos, and opposing viewpoints with rebuttals.
A 2010 study by Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston found that one in five teens suffer from a hearing impairment, which is an increase of 33% from 1994 (Dignan). Earbuds and headphones have contributed to these numbers since using these at loud volumes can damage ears over time. Earbuds and headphones have caused loss of hearing, as a result, there should be a restriction on the highest volume they can go.
Earbuds are a major concern in hearing loss. Although, the real problem is not in the product, it’s in the volume. Getting a pair of earbuds for Christmas, your birthday or any other occasion is awesome, but if you don’t keep it at an appropriate volume it is dangerous. According to the World Health Organization, nearly 1.1 billion young adults and teens are globally at risk of developing major hearing loss. Also, wearing earbuds and listening to loud music is the same as the sound of motorcycles, chainsaws, and rock concerts. Earbuds are only bad for your hearing if you don’t turn the volume down.
When you look at someone that you have never met before, you don’t immediately assume that they are deaf, but so much of the population in the world are deaf. One in five hundred children in America are born without the ability to hear, and usually are born to parents that do have hearing. “Hearing loss in adults can either be inherited from your parents or acquired from illness, ototoxic (ear-damaging) drugs, exposure to loud noise, tumors, head injury, or the aging process. This loss may occur by itself or with tinnitus (ringing in the ears).” (ASHA). Fifteen percent of the american population over the of 18 have hearing problems that could last their entire life. This is some much of the population, and we don’t give it enough recognition.
Earbuds are a major when we go places. Even though they are lightweight, small, and convenient, they have a darker side. They can hurt your hearing. They can damage your eardrum over time. Why you may ask. It is because the of volume. The volume is the cause of the damage, not the earbud. Here is why and how to stop it.
Our hypothesis was “People who are exposed to loud music at least once everyday in day to day life will have lower hearing capacity percentages than those who are not exposed to loud music at least once daily in day to day life.” We discovered when analyzing our data that our hypothesis was correct because the hearing capacities of the exposed girls were lower than that of the unexposed girls.
In today's technological era where you see children plugged into ear phones whilst going to school. It is very important to understand the
People who are hearing aid user have said that there was “ a change in their family’s demeanor, which may be due to them finally being able to communicate and enjoy family life “(newsmax), Families have been more connected than before due to how effective hearing aids have been to the users and how effectively people hear what other say. Other studies say that getting hearing aids has allowed people to be more active and social due to having a higher level of confidence than before. Additionally, another study says that having hearing loss increases self consciousness. Due to how people react to people to those with hearing loss, people start to not be affected by how society has reacted to them. Those people believe that what society has to say about them is not important to them anymore. The self esteem of one grows due to how those people know that the hearing aids are helping them and society simply does not understand