Promoting Hearing Loss Awareness:

The AudBling Story

By Noël Crosby, Au.D.

As I was window shopping one day, a jewelry display caught my eye. I went a little closer and was delighted at what I saw. The sterling silver and shell jewelry in the window had a very distinctive...and familiar...characteristic.

"That's cochlea jewelry!" I exclaimed to no one in particular. I had never seen such a beautiful combination of sterling silver and shell that, to me, symbolized audiology, a profession I love dearly.

And then it hit me! This unique jewelry, with its natural shape of the human ear's cochlea, was the perfect symbol to promote hearing loss awareness and encourage dialogue about its treatment. Audiologists could embrace it as a symbol of the profession we love and our patients could adopt it as a symbol of their first step to accepting their own unique hearing loss!

I decided right then and there that I had to find a way to introduce this beautiful "cochlea" jewelry to the audiology and hearing impaired communities.

I contacted the artisans, became a distributor and introduced it at the annual Florida Academy of Audiology meeting. The response was overwhelming and AudBling was born!

AudBling jewelry is the perfect gift for anyone! Not only is it beautiful and fun to wear, but it is also a natural "conversation starter" and can lead to an open discussion about hearing loss and the benefits of treatment...a discussion that is important not only to audiologists and their current patients, but to those who are living with untreated hearing loss. My hope is that "cochlea jewelry" will one day become a symbol, much like the pink ribbon is to breast cancer awareness, of the importance of receiving treatment for hearing loss.

I plan to make available a wide variety of cochlea-themed gifts, including shirts and tees for men and women, ties, purses and more. Also if you are an artist and make any jewlery or other audiology related art, please ask me how you can use this website to sell your products.

If you would like to receive announcements of our new products and special promotions, please email me at AuDBling@gmail.com to let me know. As a way of saying "thank you" I will send you a "discount code" that will allow you to receive 5% off your order.