- 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
Prayer for one who is going deaf
Prayer for One Who is Going Deaf is a poem shared by one of my readers. It speaks to the pain of losing one’s hearing. I am sharing it with you. God- The trouble with going deaf is that people find deaf folks a nuisance. They sympathize with people who are blind and...
How Voice and Tonality can help the Hard of Hearing
UCLA Researcher Dr. Albert Mehrabian reports that our voice relays 38% of a message. This is good news when communicating with a person with a hearing loss. Talking to Animals When I was younger, and I had dogs. I always got a big kick out of saying awful...
8 Tips to Survive Dining in Loud Restaurants
Dining in loud restaurants can damage hearing. If hard of hearing, loud restaurants pose a real challenge. The American Tinnitus Association suggests that if you cannot understand what someone is saying 3 feet away from you, the noise level could be harming your...
The Truth About Hearing Aids
Most of the people I know who wear hearing aids do not have "normal" hearing restored. Hearing aids only help... Individuals who need hearing aids need to know that they will help, but the expectation that hearing aids will restore the hearing they once had will lead...
Sounds I do not hear without hearing devices.
Here is a partial list of sounds I do not hear without hearing devices. Chances are the person you know with a hearing loss cannot hear these either. Birds – the everyday birds that grace our trees. If you put on a recording of a bird aviary, it is a recording of...
Pictures help us Hear
A picture is worth a thousand words, especially for those of us who are hard-of-hearing A 90-minute keynote I didn't want to be rude, but a relatively well-known person was delivering a 90-minute keynote with no visuals other than himself. I left after 45 minutes....
The Cochlear goes to Disneyland
The Magic Kingdom was even more so with sounds I've not heard before thanks to my cochlear implant. These are sounds from Disneyland and California Adventure my cochlear implants enable me to hear: The small birds singing in the Tiki Room. Enchanting!The telegraph...
If a Tree Falls, do you hear it?
I did not hear a tree falling in October 13, 2017 I have always loved the wind. Since a child standing in the tall green grass of the mountains in Woodland Hills, the wind stirred feelings of freedom, activity, life. In 1992 I married and moved to Chatsworth,...
Hearing Loss and Humor
Humor is based on the element of SURPRISE. For that reason, it provides one of the biggest opportunities for awkward moments. Surprise means an unexpected word or phrase. Unexpected words and phrases take the time for the brain...
Hearing Loss and Team or Solo Sports
I naturally shy away from team sports because I do not hear. Hearing loss and sports don’t always mix. However, a couple of articles posted on Hearing Like Me caught my attention. I think you’ll find them of interest and inspiration, as I did. Imagine being out...