- 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
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...
Hearing Aids A Saving Grace
Hearing loss is measured far beyond decibels. Hearing loss is linked to feelings of anxiety, depression, frustration, social isolation, and fatigue. Hearing aids can be a saving grace.
Three Benefits of Hearing Loss
While the disadvantages far outweigh the advantages, here are three benefits of hearing loss Arguments I have to confess; I only use this tactic on my husband. As we grow old together, the need to employ it is less and less. If...
COVID-19 and Hearing Loss
There are unique challenges and one big perk associated with COVID-19 and Hearing Loss. Perks As a person who is hard of hearing, there is one primary perk with this whole COVID-19 situation. That is virtual meetings. March, April, and May mark the season for...
My Cochlear and Hearing Aid visit Los Rios
Here is an insight into some pros and cons of hearing loss during an outing. Despite a cochlear and hearing aid, there is still a hearing loss. This awareness is helpful for yourself or someone you know who is new to the experience of diminished hearing. For this...
A Simple Hearing Loss Test
Do you or someone you know have a hearing loss? The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) offers this simple hearing loss test to determine if you may have diminished hearing. If you answer “yes” to three or more of these hearing...
Cochlear is activated – what happened?
The date for the cochlear implant activation was May 31, 2016. I asked a friend to videotape the big moment. “Everyone cries when their implant is turned on.” I wanted it documented. Assembly and Set-Up As I sat across the desk of my audiologist, I felt slightly...
Cochlear Implant Expectations
Adjusting the settings of the Cochlear Implant My audiologist said everyone does the same thing I did. While listening to the list of Cochlear Implant expectations, people tend to think "Oh, I'll be different. That won't happen to me!" Here are the 16 items read to me...
Customer Service Calls and Hearing Loss
Customer service calls and hearing loss are often challenging. This customer service call incident I experienced is the reason why I avoid phone calls and relish those chat features! The problem I tried to access my Kaiser account to refill a...
Giving Thanks for My Hearing Loss?
Many with “less than perfect” physical capabilities dwell on the disadvantages – those with hearing loss are no different – yet there are often hidden advantages to the challenges we face on a daily basis.