Earbud People With Deafness

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

“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.

In Australia 1 in 5 teenagers experience hearing loss from the use of earphones. 30,000 people in Australia are deaf and the rate of deafness is 30% higher than it was in the 1980's and 1990's. 40% of hearing loss, for people over the age of 18, is caused from clubs and bars having their music too loud. Hearing loss can occur from only 1 hour and 15 minutes of unsafe levels of sound. The safe level of sound when using earphones is 85 decibels(dB) or lower. But a soft whisper is 30dB, busy traffic is 75dB, a subway train 90dB, a gunshot 100dB, a jet plane 140dB and a rocket is 180dB.

Noise induced hearing loss affects the hair cells of the cochlea and typically develops over years of exposure to noise (Kirchner et al., 2009). Although noise induced hearing loss typically develops over years, noise trauma occurs after one incidence of excessive noise exposure, such as an explosive blast or fireworks. Due to the nature of noise exposure, a noise induced hearing loss typically occurs bilaterally; however, in certain environments, asymmetrical hearing losses can occur as the result of noise exposure (Bess & Humes, 2009; Kirchner et al., 2012). Currently, there is no treatment for noise induced hearing loss. Nevertheless, hearing loss can easily be prevented by limiting noise levels and time of exposure (Fligor, 2011). Approximately 10 million Americans are currently suffering from noise induced hearing loss and an additional 30 to 50 million Americans are exposed to excessive noise levels each day (Fligor, 2011). In recent decades, noise induced hearing loss has become one of the leading occupational hazards in

The world is full of noise and excessive noise exposure can cause hearing loss. There is more than 360 million of people are suffering from hearing losses (WHO) and in Canada, around 20% of the population of the total peoples have this problem (Static Canada). The reason for increasing the amount of hearing loss is because of the growing number of older people and the uncontrolled sounds. However, the static Canada shows us that, nearly 42 % peoples are at a risk of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL), would benefit from putting hearing protection device (HPD). NIHL is becoming more common nowadays and two factors are more important to damage our inner and outer hair cell that is sound pressure level and the duration of exposed this noise by

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

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 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.

In today's technological era where you see children plugged into ear phones whilst going to school. It is very important to understand the

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.