10 Questions about Hearing Loss

I recently gave a 20-minute keynote about hearing loss. The reviews and responses were overwhelmingly positive.

The title of the talk is “WHAT? 10 Questions Most Often asked about Hearing Loss” The talk is based on my experience as a person with hearing loss and a lifetime of questions asked of me concerning the deficiency.

How we hear

Before I launch into the questions, there is a primary misunderstand I must clear-up first. That is, WE DO NOT HEAR (understand) WITH OUR EARS. WE HEAR WITH OUR BRAIN! If you turn on your TV to a foreign film and turn off the captioning, you hear, yes, but you do not understand. Why? Because our BRAIN has not been trained to understand those particular “sounds.”

Here are the questions and the video of the keynote answering them. I will post one or two answers per post until all 10 questions have been answered.

1. Where are you from?

2. Do you hear anything? Are you deaf?

3. Do you read lips?

4. Do you know sign language

5. Can you drive?

6. How does a Cochlear work? Do you hear normally?

7. Do you have normal hearing with your hearing aid

8. How come sometimes you hear fine, and other times you are totally lost?

9. What can I do to help my mom/dad/uncle/friend who is losing their hearing. Seems shouting doesn’t help.

10. Have these past 14 months been difficult with everyone wearing masks?

Here is a link to the video for 10 questions about hearing loss.