About Hearing and Fire Safety
News Sources
Current Smoke Alarms Unable to Wake Millions of Hard of Hearing People,
a press release from the Hearing Loss Association of America about the recently released “Waking Effectiveness” study.
“Smoke Alarms: What Consumers With Hearing Loss Should Know,”
Hearing Loss Journal, September/October 2003
Baritone Smoke Alarms Wake the Deepest Sleepers,
an article from New Scientist Tech about an upcoming study that will appear in the Journal of Sleep Research
Research Studies
Bruck, D. and Ball, M. (2004). The effectiveness of different alarms in waking sleeping children. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Human Behaviour in Fire Interscience Communications, Belfast, U.K. 279-290.
Bruck,D. and Thomas, I. Optimizing Fire Alarm Notification for High Risk Groups Research project:
Waking Effectiveness of Alarms (auditory, visual, tactile) for adults who are hard of hearing. Fire Protection Research Foundation, 2007
Bruck,D. , Thomas, I. and Ball M. Optimizing Fire Alarm Notification for High RIsk Groups Research project: Waking Effectiveness of Alarms (auditory, visual, tactile) for the alcohol impaired. Fire Protection Research Foundation, 2007
Du Bois, Jacqueline, Awakening Effectiveness of Commercially Available Emergency Alarms for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People, Accessible Emergency Notification and Communication: State of the Science Conference 2005
Geiman, J.A and Gottuk, D.T. Reducing Fire Deaths in Older Adults: Optimizing the Smoke Alarm Signal, The Fire Protection Research Foundation, 2006.
Lee, A., Midgett, J. & White, S., (2004) A review of the sound effectiveness of residential smoke alarms. CPSC-ES-0502. US Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington D.C. 20207-0001. December 2004 (Revised).
Consumer Organization Links on Hearing Loss
Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) - www.hearingloss.org
Better Hearing News - www.yahoogroups.com/group/bhNEWS
Better Hearing Institute - www.betterhearing.org
League for the Hard of Hearing - www.lhh.org
National Association of the Deaf - www.nad.org
Hearing Exchange - www.hearingexchange.com/blogs
Hearing Mojo - www.hearingmojo.com
International Hearing Society - www.ihsinfo.org
AARP - www.aarp.org
National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders - www.nidcd.nih.gov
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing - www.agbell.org
Audiology Links
American Speech-Language Hearing Association - www.asha.org
Academy of Doctors of Audiology - www.audiologist.org
Advance Web - www.advanceweb.com
American Academy of Audiology - www.audiology.com
Fire Safety Links
National Fire Protection Association - www.nfpa.org
International Fire Marshals Association - www.nfpa.org/IFMA
International Association of Fire Chiefs - www.iafc.org
National Association of State Fire Marshals - www.firemarshals.org
National Volunteer Fire Council - www.nvfc.org
Congressional Fire Services Institute - www.cfsi.org
The Fire Protection Research Foundation - www.nfpa.org/foundation
Home Safety Council - www.homesafetycouncil.org
Academic Links
OSU School of Fire Protection and Safety Technology - www.fpst.okstate.edu
University of Maryland – Department of Fire Protection Engineering - www.enfp.umd.edu
Worcester Poly Tech Fire Protection Engineering - www.wpi.edu/Academics/index.html