Gael Hannan

Gael Hannan is an author, speaker and advocate on hearing loss issues. In addition to her weekly blog at the Better Hearing Consumer, which has a passionate international following, Gael has written two acclaimed books, “The Way I Hear It: A Life with Hearing Loss”and “Hear & Beyond: Live Skillfully with Hearing Loss”, written with Shari Eberts. She is regularly invited to present her uniquely humorous and insightful work to appreciative audiences around the world. Gael has received many awards for her work that advocates for individuals to become more knowledgeable and successful at dealing with their hearing loss and a more inclusive society for them to live in.

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When Hearing Aids Meet in the Ketchup Aisle

What goes through your mind when you notice that shiny arc of silver behind the ear of someone you don’t know? If you’re a hearing person, you might think, “OK, that person is hard of hearing” and that’s the end of it. Especially if you’re standing behind him or her in the grocery checkout, or you’re both pushing shopping carts

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Words for a Beautiful, Laughing Deaf Child

Giana is six years old and was born profoundly deaf. She is an enchanting child – I can tell this only from her picture, however, because I’ve never met her. But her mother, Gina, says that this is pure Giana, a beautiful laughing girl, who is also deaf and who has been struggling in her early school years. Gina contacted

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How Do You Expect Me to Understand You, If…..

We people with hearing loss are very fussy. Communication has to be just so, and if we don’t get it the way we want or need it, we can get grumpy. Especially if we’ve explained it a million times to someone before. We do go easier on strangers, but if they are challenged by our requests, our good humor is

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How Do You Like Your Tea (“T”)?

by Renee Iseli About 30 years ago, a couple of years after my hearing loss began, I started to notice a high-pitched noise in my head. I heard it when my environment was absolutely quiet, but it was masked when I was surrounded by the daily noises of life. Since I didn’t know what it was or where it

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Have You Met My Friend Roger?

People with hearing loss who embrace assistive technology often do so with a passion. And why not? These deceptively simple-looking marvels mean the difference between connecting and isolation. We love to tell people, whether they’re interested or not, about our amazing hearing aids, sound processors, streamers, and wireless units that connect us to our music, TVs and other people. My

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Silly Pearls of Wisdom for People with Hearing Loss

Don’t you just love when people throw out those sayings and clichés to help you through a situation? Like, when one door closes, another opens. What’s that supposed to mean for a person with hearing loss – that when you lose your hearing, you appreciate your eyes a lot more? That might be true, but I wouldn’t think, oh OK,

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Dancing, Again, to the Melody of Life

I’m pleased to welcome Ed McGee as my guest writer this week, who shares his story of coming through Ménière’s, hearing loss and a curtailed lifestyle, to a new world of hearing and activity. online pharmacy https://www.diamondhealthinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ozempic.html with best prices today in the USA I remember my first episode with vertigo in 1977. I had developed Ménière’s disease, a

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Fire and Flood: Helping People with Hearing Loss

The devastating destruction of Hurricane Harvey has caused massive people displacement in the southern US. In my home province of British Columbia, historic wildfires continue to rage, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. Most of us watch these real-life dramas on our TVs, perhaps while eating dinner and drinking our water-wine-soda-beers. We’re safe and comfortable – not soaking

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When Hearing Loss Embarrasses You

Are you embarrassed by your hearing loss? I am – but not by the fact of it. I’m not ashamed of my hearing loss and I don’t try to hide it. But it’s those embarrassing moments – when you mis-hear something, or didn’t hear in the first place – that get me. Those lovely little social faux pas – perhaps when you

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Why I Write About Hearing Loss

I’m celebrating an anniversary! I know this because recently I got a whole bunch of emails from LinkedIn connections saying, “Congratulations on your work anniversary!” As I am mostly retired from paid contract work, this was confusing. Then I remembered that LinkedIn congratulates people for any position they hold, paid or volunteer – say, that’s nice of them, hey? So, they