Tinnitus Awareness Week 2012

Take Action / Spread the Word / Educate / Activity Center

What is Tinnitus Awareness Week (TAW)?

Established in 1927, May has since been known as “Better Hearing and Speech Month” – a time to raise national public awareness, knowledge and understanding of speech, language and hearing disorders. To complement ATA’s year-round advocacy efforts, each year we set aside a week in May to focus specifically on increasing public awareness about tinnitus and most importantly the need for increased funding for tinnitus research.

Click on the TAW calendar for activities you and others
can participate in throughout the month of May!

Participate in TAW the entire month of May!

ATA has an interactive calendar that details the various tinnitus activities throughout the month of May. Help do your part to spread tinnitus awareness in your community!

To easily celebrate Tinnitus Awareness Week in your own communities please visit the following ATA web pages to view and download our TAW resource materials:

Take Action

• Sample press release and cover letter to send to your local media outlets

• Sample letter to send to your senators & representatives

• Sample proclamation to send to your mayor, governor or other locally elected official asking them to declare Tinnitus Awareness Week in your own communities

Spread the Word

• Talking points to share with your physician, co-workers, friends, family and neighbors

• TAW 2012 poster announcement

Educate

• What you should know about tinnitus

• The history of Tinnitus Awareness Week

• ATA-funded research highlights and history

Activity Center

• Tinnitus Awareness Week Activity Calendar (for the entire month of May)

• Fun and educational crossword puzzle to download, print and share

• 4 word search puzzles

• Sound levels poster

• "Color Me Quietly" poster