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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Auditory Fatigue: Why HoHs Fade Fast

By Chelle Wyatt At a recent meeting of my local chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), Susan Naidu, an audiologist at the University of Utah, spoke about auditory fatigue, also called listener fatigue or cognitive energy fatigue. According to Susan, this “real condition is not discussed or researched enough.” It isn’t clinically recognized but many professionals

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Love Poem for My Hearing Aids

Sometimes I moan and groan about my hearing aids, but every once in a while I see them as they are: little technical gifts that take me from hearing almost nothing to being able to perceive the sounds of the world. Not perfectly, but well enough to be grateful. A couple of years ago, I wrote “Ode to

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Trickle-Down Education

by Mike Metz online pharmacy tenormin over the counter with best prices today in the USA Remember the theories of trickle-down economics from some of those old time politicians of 30-40 years ago? Did anyone every figure out what was wrong about these ideas? How much trickled down? Are there lessons that can be mined from these theories? A

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I Got a Cochlea Tattoo!

If there’s one thing you don’t need when you have hearing loss, it’s another reminder that you have it. We get plenty of reminders throughout the day—every day—with sounds we can’t quite understand, people mumbling, and captioning that’s missing when we need it. So why on earth would I mark my body with an inky rendition of a cochlea to remind

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Life Without Captions

Do you use captioning? On TV, perhaps, or in the theater, or on internet videos? Perhaps you enjoy CART (Communication Access RealtimeTranslation) at live events? It’s not easy to explain the simple power of turning the captions “ON” for people who have difficulty hearing the spoken word. It’s the difference between dark and light, confusion and clarity, misinterpretation and understanding.

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Taking Turns Talking: Grownups in Groups

By Kathi Mestayer Wait your turn! It’s second nature at the bank drive-thru, the gas station, the ski lift, the doctor’s office. And a mixed blessing. Some people, like me, really hate waiting in line and have to take deep breaths and make a concerted effort to entertain ourselves. In contrast, the people in line at Starbucks

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I Dreamt I Had Hearing Loss!

I woke up with a shock the other morning. Actually, the shock didn’t happen right away, because I was thinking about my cool dream of being interviewed for a position as nanny for Justin Trudeau’s kids. (For those not up on Canadian politics, Justin is our Prime Minister.) The jolt came when I realized that during this interview with

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Scope of Practice—Forensic Considerations

by Mike Metz Over the years, I have never failed to pay malpractice premiums. I have used a national company for their protection for many decades. Probably due a little to luck, I have never been involved any legal action that required me to defend my professional actions. But I have been hired to participate in legal actions

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A Message from a Unicorn

For those of us with hearing loss, reminders are everywhere of what we may be missing —the joy of music or speech, for example, if only we could hear well enough to make sense of them. Yet sometimes, unexpectedly, we receive messages from unusual sources that tell us that our senses are intertwined, helping us to enjoy what we thought

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20 QUESTIONS & 5 STEPS TO A BETTER LIFE WITH HEARING LOSS

Don’t you just love those headlines that promise you the world? 5 Simple Tricks You Can Do TODAY to Revive Your Love Life! 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Celery—But Should! 3 Neat Ways to Pick the 5 People You’ll Meet Up There! These are examples of a listicle—a combination of an article and a list which offers advice to