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Companies & Organizations devoted to hearing conservation and high quality hearing products.

National Hearing Conservation Association
An incredibly diverse membership, including researchers and students in the hearing sciences, audiologists, government research and regulatory agencies, the military, NASA, manufacturers of testing equipment, hearing protection and communications systems, and audio companies with connections to hearing protection. This organization welcomes anyone interested in studying hearing loss and promoting hearing conservation.
www.hearingconservation.org

 

Sensaphonics Hearing Conservation
HearTomorrow Sponsor
Audiology clinic and also developer and manufacturer of custom-molded, calibrated ear plugs and in-ear monitor systems for touring musicians.
NOTE: They have a links page providing a list of audiologists across the country, who can do ear impressions for calibrated ear plugs. Check out their client list pages . . . see just who is concerned about and protecting their hearing.
www.sensaphonics.com

 

Soundcheck Audiology

HearTomorrow Partner

My good friend and hearing colleague, Heather Malyuk, former clinic director at Sensaphonics, has returned home to the Cleveland area and started her own practice. She is also primarily dedicated to serving musicians all over the country. I'm always seeing Facebook posts about her "residencies" with different symphony orchestras.
Why seek her out? She's also a practicing, professional musician . . . The meanest folk fiddle player with her own group Glass Mountain.

https://www.soundcheckaudiology.com/

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Project Decibel

HearTomorrow Partner

One of the two best Workshops I ever conducted, was produced by Jenna Paley when she was an AuD student at Indiana University. She's a total firecracker and has put together a "hearing service" for not just musicians, but everyone . . . Her goal is to make audiological services easy to access.

I'm still learning the scope of her work, but she, like Heather, is passionate, smart and caring . . . Nuff said!

https://www.project-decibel.com

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Howard Leight / A division of Honeywell
HearTomorrow Sponsor
Howard Leight is a manufacturer of a wide range of hearing protection products for both industry and consumers, including hearing protection measurement systems to insure effective use of their plugs and muffs. They also have an educational site "HearForever" with on-line information on noise-induced hearing loss, seminars and tools for educators.
http://www.howardleight.com/

 

Etymotic Research, Inc. 
HearTomorrow Sponsor
Specializing in musicians earplugs, both generic and inserts for custom-molded plugs. Etymotic also produces a generic in-ear phone, using the same drivers as those used by Sensaphonics.
www.etymotic.com

 

EARLOVE
HearTomorrow Sponsor
Earlove is the brainchild of my good friend and hearing awareness colleague, Carolynn Travis.
Brilliantly packaged in an aluminum can/key fob, the Earlove plugs come from Etymotic Research, including their new low-profile plug, called the "Earlove XO".
www.earlove.net

 

Advanced Communication Solutions Ltd.
A hearing conservation company, based in the United Kingdom, which serves both music and industrial clients. They specialize in custom molded ear plugs, in-ear monitors, as well as mobile hearing testing services. This site is run by Andy Shiach, a hearing specialist in London, who was gracious enough to share his original "HearTomorrow" logo with me . . . Brothers in arms across the big pond! Thanks Andy!
http://www.hearingprotection.co.uk/

 

Musician’ Clinics of Canada
Site developed by Drs. Marshall Chasin and John Chong specifically to help musicians develop healthy hearing practices as well as understand and cope with hearing loss.  Both have done extensive research in both loss, prevention, and assessment of hearing aid systems. Many hearing aid manufacturers are listed as sponsors of this site.
www.musiciansclinics.com

 

Ear Inc.
A resource for both industrial hearing protection systems, as well as individuals with hearing loss.
Includes a good hearing loss simulation.
www.earinc.com

 

Aearo Technologies
Manufacturers of many types of hearing protection systems; well known for their “EAR” yellow foam plugs. This site has lots of information on hearing loss and protection.
www.e-a-r.com

 

HEAROS
Producer of "Hearos" brand ear plugs, available at many national drug store chains. This is a company dedicated strictly to the consumer market. A wonderfully friendly site . . . 
www.hearos.com

 

H.E.A.R.
California-based site dedicated to building awareness of hearing and hearing loss issues for musicians. Run almost solely by Kathy Peck, a former rock bass player who has suffered hearing loss.
It’s a great site with a huge links page, to both hearing as well as general music and musicians’ resources.
http://www.hearnet.com/

Great Home Audio Outlets

  • New York University (12)

  • University of Michigan (2)

  • University of Chicago(2)

  • University of Louisiana @ Lafayette

  • Northwestern University

  • Penn State University

  • Michigan State University

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  • University of Northern Colorado

  • University of Colorado - Boulder

  • Purdue University

  • Metropolitan State University of Denver

  • Loyola University, New Orleans

  • University of Illinois - Chicago, School of Music

  • University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health

  • Southern Illinois University @ Carbondale (3)

  • Northern Illinois University

  • Columbia College Chicago (2)

  • Concordia University, Chicago

  • The Berklee College of Music (2)

  • The New England School of Communications (2)

  • Butler University

  • Webster University

  • Illinois Institute of Art

  • Glenbrook North High School

  • The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts

  • The New Orleans Musicians Assistance Foundation

  • InfoComm 2012 Convention

  • Audio Engineering Society - 2012 Conference: Music Induced Hearing Disorders (Keynote Speaker)

  • Audio Engineering Society - 2018 Conference: Music Induced Hearing Disorders (Education Panel Moderator)

  • Audio Engineering Society - 2009, 2010 & 2013 Conventions

  • Audio Engineering Society - Chicago and New York Sections

  • South By Southwest 2015 Conference

  • World Forum for Acoustic Ecology - Mexico City - 2010

  • PopAkademie Baden-Wuerttemberg - Mannheim, Germany

  • National Hearing Conservation Association - 2009, 2010, 2011 2012, 2014 - 2020 & 2025 Conferences

  • American Academy of Otolaryngology - 2017 & 2018 World Conferences

  • Pennsylvania Academy of Audiology - 2010 & 2012 Conventions

  • Illinois Academy of Audiology 2015 Conference

  • Rush University, Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences

  • City University of New York, Doctor of Audiology Program

  • University of Connecticut, Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Disorders

  • Indiana University, Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences(2)

  • University of Cincinnati, Department of Audiology

  • University of Florida, Department of Audiology(2)

  • Illinois State University, Department of Audiology

  • The Tinnitus Practitioner's Association 2015 Conference

  • The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, 2014 Conference

  • Performing Arts Medicine Association, 2013 Symposium

  • Performing Arts Medicine Association, 2016 Symposium

  • Knowles Center of Northwestern University, 2013 Symposium

  • The Foundation for Hearing and Speech Rehabilitation

  • The Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital Department of Audiology & Cochlear Implants

  • New Orleans Musicians Assistance Foundation

  • The Mid-Atlantic Hearing Expo - 2011 & 2013

  • The 282nd Army Band @ Ft Jackson, South Carolina

  • 1st Infantry Division Band @ Ft Riley, Kansas

University Sites for Images and the Latest Research

McGill University’s “Audilab”
Homepage for the university’s hearing physiology research center. Here is a combination of wonderful 3-D models of the ear, plus links to more web sites dedicated to research and hearing loss and prevention.
http://audilab.bmed.mcgill.ca/AudiLab/

 

University of Washington
Excellent tutorial pages on all systems from bony structures to the auditory nerve pathways. Includes interactive identification applet.
http://www9.biostr.washington.edu:80/cgi-bin/DA/PageMaster?atlas:NeuroSyllabus+ffpathIndex/Syllabus^Chapters/SUBJECTS/Auditory+2

 

University of Illinois, Champaign
Atlas of Histology
Click on “slides”, then “sense organs”. There you will find incredible electron-microscope photos of many structures, including hair cells, magnified 10,000 times.
http://www.med.uiuc.edu/histo/large/atlas/index.htm

 

University of Delaware
Gorgeous electron microscope shots of inner ear structures
http://www.udel.edu/biology/Wags/histopage/empage/ee/ee.htm

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