It’s a fact of life. We all spend lots of time attached to headphones.
Most of us know enough to take care with the volume, but are we really doing it? Moreover, what can we do to ensure that our kids are regulating the volume as they listen to music? It doesn’t help that many pre-teens and adolescents don’t always listen to their parents.
Now a new app, Auto-Old My Music, may be able to communicate the dangers of extremely loud music better than we can. This app, available for iPhone and iPod, plays the music differently — it’s muffled and not particularly clear — just the way it might sound to a person who is hearing impaired.
Now that might successfully drive the point home.
The Auto-Old My Music app, designed by the Baptist Memorial Health Care in Memphis, Tennessee, is a response to research, Change in Prevalence of Hearing Loss in U.S. Adolescents, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Read the full article in PDF format.
Articles to Check Out
- Apps Warn About Hearing Loss – CourierPostOnline.com – Southern NJ
- An App Warns About Hearing Loss – Salt Lake Tribune
You can also read my 2010 post, Teens and Hearing Loss.
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