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Hearing Loss Prevention Education Resources. This Web site, developed by the Acoustical Testing Laboratory at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, provides resources related to acoustics and hearing, including auditory demonstrations, activity sheets, and interactive games for children.
How Your Brain Understands What Your Ear Hears. This resource, developed by the National Institutes of Health, is a creative, inquiry-based instruction program designed to promote active learning and stimulate student interest in medical topics. The unit consists of lesson plans and activities geared toward students in grades 7–8. Lesson 5 deals specifically with noise-induced hearing loss and includes activities to educate students on this topic.
It’s a Noisy Planet: Protect their Hearing. Developed by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, this Web site offers advice to parents on the causes and prevention of noise-induced hearing loss, how to recognize when a child's hearing is at risk, and ways to reduce noise exposure. The site also contains games, posters, and interactive information about noise and hearing loss tailored specifically for tweens.
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD). NCBDDD addresses a broad spectrum of developmental disabilities including hearing loss.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. This Web site provides information on noise and hearing loss prevention in the workplace.
Noise-Induced Hearing Loss. Developed by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, this Web site provides information for teens, parents, and teachers about the link between noise and hearing loss and describes the causes, effects, and prevention of noise-induced hearing loss.
Noise and Hearing Conservation Standards. Developed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), this Web site highlights OSHA standards, Federal Register announcements (rules, proposed rules, and notices), directives (instructions for compliance officers), other federal standards, and national consensus standards related to noise and hearing conservation.
WISE EARS! WISE EARS!® is a national program to prevent noise-induced hearing loss. It was created by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and other agencies. The program has materials for children, teachers, parents, the media, and the general public. These materials can help people understand noise-induced hearing loss, its causes, and how it can be prevented.
Young Worker Safety and Health. This Web site provides information to protect the safety and health of adolescent workers. Resources include an occupational safety and health curriculum for use in classroom or other group training settings and an easy-to-read Safety Checklist Program that provides information needed by schools to maintain safe classrooms, shops, and labs for teachers and students in career-technical education.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. This site provides information on hearing loss, hearing screening and assessment, and hearing treatment/rehabilitation.
Dangerous Decibels. Dangerous Decibels is a public health campaign designed to reduce the incidence and prevalence of noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus. It was developed by Oregon Hearing Research Center at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry with funding and technical support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Guidelines for Community Noise. This World Health Organization site offers science-based information on noise sources and management, the adverse effects of noise, and recommendations for the implementation of these guidelines.
National Hearing Conservation Association. This site provides resources for educators, parents, and children related to preventing noise-induced hearing loss. It also offers information about hearing conservation regulations and guidelines, including the American National Standard Acoustical Performance Criteria, Design Requirements, and Guidelines for Schools.
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