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University of Northern Colorado Associate Professor Deanna Meinke and her colleagues from around the nation collaborated with the Centers for Disease Control’s Division of Adolescent and School Health to add an online educational resource for helping to prevent noise–induced hearing loss in children. Read more.
Their efforts have led to the CDC including on its existing health Web pages for the first time information on the topic of children’s noise–induced hearing loss, the result of exposure to excessively loud sounds that can be easily prevented.
The Web page can be viewed at http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/noise/index.htm. It is designed with K–12 educators and school administrators in mind. There are also links on the page to other groups and organizations that provide credible and valuable information on the topic.

Meinke, in UNC’s Audiology and Speech–Language Sciences program, received a grant from the US Navy, in collaboration with faculty at Dartmouth, to work on a project that involves the development and validation of a new clinical system that can detect noise induced hearing loss earlier and more reliably than is currently possible.  The innovation is based on the use of extended distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) measurements that may reveal structure and functional information that is more sensitive to cochlear pathology. Visit Dr. Meinke’s webpage.