To understand hearing loss, it helps to understand how ears work. Your ear is an amazing organ that transports sound information to your brain causing you to react in a number of ways. They stir emotions, pique curiosity, and engage response to laughter, crying, praise, and alarms to name a few. They can perceive sound from barely audible to very loud, differentiate loudness and distance, and pinpoint the direction of a sound source. This short movie will demonstrate how the ear performs the task of hearing.