MP3 Generation Face Premature Hearing Damage, RNID warns
This study has been done before, with walkmans remember them?
And another study with MP3 players done in America, why did RNID conduct a study in UK?
Brian Lamb, Acting Chief Executive of RNID, said: “MP3 player manufacturers have a responsibility to make their customers aware of the dangers by printing clear warnings on packaging and linking volume controls to decibel levels.
Why target mp3 players?
Not everyone uses that format from a technology view,this was also said about ipods
In ear mobile phones damage hearing too.
Warnings are there on booklets, but RNID wants it to be bigger and clearer!!
Sound like a nanny state very similar to smoking having health warnings on cigarette packets.
Spending money on research like others have already done is wasting money.
Its just another case of “RNID letting people know we are here and donate more money”
So come on RNID do what your supposed to do and represent REAL needs for Deaf people to which clearly you don’t.
Before long RNID will issue grave warnings about the possible deafening effect of living too close to church bells. Have you heard the slogan “your pace, not our urgency”? That could very well be applied here.
Brian Lamb is normally Director of Communications and it does not seem to bother him in the least that deaf people are not able to communicate effectively with RNID or their trustees. That’s another maxim - “nothing about us without us.” It appears that the most important thing to him is to get the RNID PR message over to the public and just ignore deaf people.
They give conflicting messages too. E.g. being hard of hearing or deaf is tragic, you don’t want to be it. Sure I don’t wish being deafened on anyone, but its sending a message out there that deafies aren’t okay. How can you celebrate or be positive about our existence with such an attitude? If anyone is unable to do the latter, then they really aren’t okay with themselves, or their place in the world … deaf people aren’t going to go away!
They’re stating going deaf can be avoided or delayed if you turn it down a bit, it has nothing to do with criticising deafies ! No-one chooses to be deaf (Not sane people anyway !). We don’t want deaf people to go away, just to get a sense of perspective….