Listen To Your Buds! - Did You Know? Facts About Hearing Loss


Did You Know? Ten million Americans have Noise-Induced Hearing Loss. Daily, about 30 million Americans are exposed to dangerous noise. Roughly 13 out of every 100 school children have some degree of hearing loss. Children with mild or unilateral (one ear) hearing loss have difficulty with their educational, social, and speech development. Among African-American, Cuban-American, Mexican-American, Puerto Rican and non-Hispanic White children, approximately 391,000 school-aged children have hearing loss in at least one ear.


	Listen To Your Buds^TM is a consumer awareness campaign by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association about the potential risk of hearing loss from unsafe usage of personal audio technology.