Research on hearing loss indicates:
- 10% of all Americans have some hearing loss
- 14% of American adults have “a little trouble hearing”
- 3.4% of American adults have “a lot of trouble hearing” or are deaf
- 30% of all people over the age of 65 have hearing loss
- 65% of all people over the age of 85 have hearing loss
- Over 75% of people with hearing loss lost their hearing after the age of 19
- 50% of people with hearing loss are of working age (18 – 64)
- 83 out of every 1000 children in the United States have an educationally significant hearing loss
- 3 of every 1000 babies born in the United States has a hearing loss
- 75% of people who could benefit from hearing aids are not using them
Gallaudet Research Institute
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/InfoToGo/
National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs
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