AboutCordell Vail Expertise I would be very happy to try to answer any questions that you may have about things you can do as a hearing impaired person to find a good job or better your education. I have been working with the deaf since 1996. One of the greatest needs seems to be finding help with getting a better education and employment. To try to fill that need, started a FREE deaf job service web page at www.vcaa.com/deafnews/jobs. You can post your résumé there for free. I am also collecting deaf job information, educational opportunities and vocational financial assistance for the hearing impaired from every state and posting it on that web page. Because the ideal employment for some hearing impaired people would be to work at home, I am in the process of writing a book about that and I also post that information on the web page when ever I find it. There is no cost to use the information on the web page and I will be happy to try to answer your questions here as well.
Experience I have been helping the deaf and hearing impaired find work and better education since 1996
Publications www.vcaa.com/deafnews/jobs
Education/Credentials 2 years graduate work at the University Of Utah in Interpersonal Communications
Question Hi, I don't know if you are the right person for me to ask this, I looked at your statement, and it seems you know a lot about the human ear.
I was wondering, because I have been told a lot that I listen to my music through my earphones way too loud, if listening to music really loud through headphones can cause significant hearing damage or even deafness?
I have been doing it for a long time and I just don't know if I have damage yet, if I will get it, or if I could even notice it yet. Thank you.
Answer You are right, I am not the one who could answer your question because I am not a doctor. It is not hard at all to find a place that will give you a free hearing test. They of course will want to sell you something after but you don't have to buy anything. I see them in malls and big stores like Costco all the time. They can tell you if you have hearing loss or not. If you do they will then of course recommend a hearing aid which is what they sell. Just take the results of the test and tell them you don't want a hearing aid.
I have read lots of articles that say that loud music in headphones will damage your hearing. Once the hearing hair follicles inside your ear are broken off, they can never be repaired. I lost most of my hearing from loud guns in Vietnam and even with hearing aids I still can not ever have normal hearing. So I guess most of us don't truly value our hearing until we lose it.
If you do some research on the Internet you can find out a lot about how loud things have to be, before it damages your hearing. You can also see lots of pictures of the inside of your ear and how hearing loss occurs.
Here are just a few examples of places I found on the Internet. (You can find lots more using the search engines)
