hearing

Encourages children to think about how they use their ears to listen and how they use the ir sense of hearing to keep safe.

Uses simple text and photographs to explain about sound waves, how the human ear works, and how animals can have a special sense of hearing.

Describes the physical characteristics of earaches, explains what causes them and how to treat them as well as tips on preventing an earache.

Discover how your ears work to hear all sounds and noises around you.

Photographs and text describe loud and soft sounds heard indoors and outside and made by animals, people, machinery, and nature.

Explores the sense of hearing using examples such as drumming and a jackhammer. Describes the physiology of hearing and includes an activity.

Explains how the sense of hearing works; describes ears; discusses animal hearing, sounds, problems with hearing, and other related topics; and includes a related activity.

Text and illustrations presents sounds to be heard. Included is a short scientific explanation of our sense of hearing, with a diagram of the ear.

Discusses the origins and development of the use of hearing aids, the work of otologists and surgeons to develop new technologies, the contributions of Helen Keller, and the work of innovators such as Bartolomeo Eustachius, Adam Politzer, and Graeme Clark.