Hearing conservation is the auditory equivalent of brushing to protect your teeth or putting on sunscreen to protect your skin. Taking steps to protect your hearing today will help guard against hearing loss in the future.
Related: Students of the iPod generation learn to protect their hearing in an often cacophonous world (Iowa Alumni Magazine, February 2011)
UI SAFE (University of Iowa—Sound Awareness For Everyone) is a group of clinical and research audiologists and graduate students, based out of the Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Clinic, interested in hearing conservation. The group holds periodic iPod volume testing sessions at the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center in efforts to prevent substantial—and permanent—hearing loss.