October is Protect Your Hearing Month
The leaves are starting to turn shades of red, yellow, and orange and fall to the ground. October means pumpkins on doorsteps and ghouls on porches. However, many people don’t know that October also means it is time to think about noise. This and every October is protecting your hearing month, a national campaign led by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) to raise awareness around the risks of loud noise. …