- 5 Reasons to Wear Hearing Aids
- Communicating with the Hearing Impaired
- The Dynamics of Hearing
- Do You Have a Hearing Loss?
- Helping someone who keeps asking “What?”
- Protect Your Hearing this Independence Day
- Zoom Video Conferencing for the Hard of Hearing
- Hearing Loss Survival Tactics
- Eight Hearing Loss Defining Moments
- Cooking with Hearing loss.
- Headphones and Hearing Loss
- What DEAF Means
- Helen Keller Quotes about Deafness
- Questions about Hearing Loss 8-10
- Questions about Hearing Loss 5-7
- Questions about Hearing Loss 1-4
- 10 Questions about Hearing Loss
- Hearing Loss and Cancer
- Lip-Reading for Children
- Hearing Loss and Doctor Visits
- Vocal Variety and Hearing Loss
- Hearing Aids A Saving Grace
- Three Benefits of Hearing Loss
- COVID-19 and Hearing Loss
- My Cochlear and Hearing Aid visit Los Rios
- A Simple Hearing Loss Test
- Cochlear is activated – what happened?
- Cochlear Implant Expectations
- Customer Service Calls and Hearing Loss
- Giving Thanks for My Hearing Loss?
- Prayer for one who is going deaf
- How Voice and Tonality can help the Hard of Hearing
- 8 Tips to Survive Dining in Loud Restaurants
- The Truth About Hearing Aids
- Sounds I do not hear without hearing devices.
- Pictures help us Hear
- The Cochlear goes to Disneyland
- If a Tree Falls, do you hear it?
- Hearing Loss and Humor
- Hearing Loss and Team or Solo Sports
- Watching the Wizard of Oz with Closed-Captioning
- Hearing Loss and Self-Serve Checkout
- HLAA-CA Hearing Loss Tech Expo
- Making a Difference about Hearing Loss
- Hearing Loss and Frustration Go Hand in Hand
- Hard of Hearing Helped by LCD Writing Tablets
- The Ears During Eye Examinations
- Hearing Aids and Water Don’t Mix
- Waiters and Waitresses – Repeat or Rephrase
- Beware of the Dangerous Decibels
- Thankful for A Hearing Loss?
- Hard of Hearing Witch-A Post-Halloween Drama
- Get Reconnected
- Your Pet and Your Hearing Aid
- Voice Tonality… IT MATTERS!
- Why a Hard-of-Hearing Cat is My Mascot
- Aging parents? You need this book NOW!
- My Cochlear Implant – Eleven Months after Activation
- Significant Cochlear Implant Milestone
- Improving Speech Comprehension with my Cochlear Implant
- My New Hearing Aid Designed to Pair with my Cochlear Implant
- My TEDx talk about Hearing Loss
- The Cochlear Implant Eight Months Later
5 Reasons to Wear Hearing Aids
Studies show that only one in five people who need hearing aids don't acquire or wear them. Research reveals there are good solid reasons to wear hearing aids if you have hearing loss. 1) Quality of Life Studies by the National Council of Aging, show that people who...
Communicating with the Hearing Impaired
Hearing Loss CPR offers tips and techniques you can use when communicating with the hearing impaired or explaining yourself to others if you are the person with the hearing loss. If I had this information when I was younger, it would have made my life easier.
The Dynamics of Hearing
It is essential to understand that hearing is a function of the ears, while COMPREHENSION of speech sounds is a function of the brain. We all employ the dynamics of hearing. Capitalize on them when communicating with a person who is hard of hearing. A comment I often...
Do You Have a Hearing Loss?
A delightful woman in one of my Toastmaster clubs gave a speech about the time she realized she had a hearing problem. It was while serving on Jury duty. “It was then I first realized I was going deaf. I could hear the lawyer, and I could hear the witness. But, I...
Helping someone who keeps asking “What?”
She was annoyed, but so was I. This receptionist needs to know about helping someone who keeps asking WHAT? THE SITUATION Sitting in the Oncologist waiting room for my bi-annual check-up, a middle-aged Asian woman approached the receptionist window. It was apparent...
Protect Your Hearing this Independence Day
Fireworks are dangerous decibels. Best to protect your hearing and the hearing of you loved ones with ear protection.
Zoom Video Conferencing for the Hard of Hearing
Image credit mohamed_hassan on Pixabay As a hard-of-hearing person who relies on lips to comprehend speech, two years of people wearing masks was like living in the Twilight Zone. However, a remarkable thing DID happen! Zoom video conferencing! What is Zoom? It is...
Hearing Loss Survival Tactics
As I stated in my TedX talk and my books, I was often unaware - or unwilling - to acknowledge my hearing disability for much of my life. This included not recognizing behaviors that I adopted to survive my disability. However, I finally realized them for what they are...
Eight Hearing Loss Defining Moments
Here are eight hearing loss defining moments where I was aware of denying, accepting or recognizing the struggle with my disability. hearing loss defining moments At the time of writing this post, I am 68 years old. In those 68 years, I recall eight significant...
Cooking with Hearing loss.
For me, and millions of others, the holiday season means a LOT of time in the kitchen preparing delectable food, treats, and sweets for family and guests. Cooking with hearing loss requires some TLC!
Headphones and Hearing Loss
Headphones can cause hearing loss. Interestingly enough, Pete Townshend of the famous Rockband WHO, says the cause of his hearing loss is due to using headphones in the recording studio, not the loud music on stage. Headphones and hearing loss The average listening...
What DEAF Means
In honor of Deaf Awareness Month that takes place annually in September, I thought it would be helpful to define what deaf means. Please understand that this is my opinion; there is a lot of confusion about what deaf means. The Definition of Deaf As a person born with...
Helen Keller Quotes about Deafness
For years I quoted and supported the remarkable Helen Keller quotes about deafness. I feel differently now. The two quotes are: "Blindness cuts us off from things, but deafness cuts us off from people. and "The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not...