Listening too loud in urban environments Urban college students
may be risking noise-induced hearing loss August 16, 2010
Boston, Mass. - A new study from Children's Hospital Boston and
City University of New York (CUNY) finds that the majority of
college students using MP3 players and iPods exceed the
recommended sound exposure limits while listening. Findings from
this study - the largest of its kind - suggest a majority of
these students are at increased risk for noise-induced hearing
loss. The study recently appeared online in the Journal of
Speech Language Hearing Research and will be featured in the
February 2011 issue. Brian Fligor, Sc.D. CCC-A, director of the
Diagnostic Audiology Program at Children's Hospital Boston, and
his collaborators at CUNY, Sandra Levey, Ph.D., and Tania Levey,
Ph.D., surveyed the listening habits of 189 college students at
a New York City university and recorded the levels of their MP3
player and iPod headphones as they entered the campus. It was
found that 58.2 percent of p