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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Why You Should Let Your Face-Light Shine!

This is a simple plea: let there be light. If you’re speaking with people like me—who have hearing loss and who depend to some degree on speechreading—make sure we can see your face. Your whole face. All the time. That means no shadows. Examples of shadow-makers include baseball caps, light from beneath or above—which has the added disadvantage of making

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Engagement for Alignment

Editor’s Note: Dr. Howard Ong presents part two in a three-part series on leadership. Engagement for Alignment by Howard Ong, DDS, MAGD The first article in this series on “A Culture of Leadership” covered basic principles of culture that defines a leadership style for your practice. This second article builds on that. Now that you have discovered your culture

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Don’t Make Us Beg

It’s the kind of news that makes the hard of hearing heart beat faster. No, there’s been no proclamation of National 50% Off Hearing Aids Day. No announcement of a little pink pill that will make damaged cochlear hair cells spring back to life. No scientific proof of a twice-daily mantra that will calm the neurons firing off tinnitus cannons

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Audiology, Hearing Aids, and the Future

by Mike Metz buy anafranil online anafranil online no prescription Have you come across those newspaper ads that try to solicit a varying number of people to participate in a “study” with “new” hearing aids? Who would do this? It’s just an ad gimmick, right? Despite likely being illegal in many states, how can such things that mislead consumers be

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Turning Off Taps & Putting Out Fires

Hoo-boy! Hearing loss can sure change a girl’s life. It transforms you into a pardon-me-parrot. You become an ear-poker, making sure your hearing aids are there and working. You turn into a vigilante, looking for rule-breakers of the Gospel of Good Communication; heaven help the husband or friend or child who doesn’t face us, speak up, or repeat themselves, graciously, upon demand. Fines

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Practice Management Principles: A Culture of Leadership, Part 1

Dentistry has experienced many of the same issues facing dispensing audiologists and other dispensers of hearing aids – namely, large competitive organizations and their encroachment into independent practices. Hearing Health and Technology Matters approached Dr. Howard Ong, DDS, MAGD to find out how he and others have managed and flourished in the face of such competition, knowing that the issues

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The Pains of “Pardon Me?”

Everybody asks for things to be repeated. Whether you can hear people whispering in a noisy restaurant or have trouble understanding even your own mom on the phone, everyone needs to say pardon me on occasion. Maybe a person is talking with a mouth full of food, munching words beyond recognition. More than one person is speaking at once, and your

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PCAST, PSAPs, and Likely Possibilities

By Michael Metz On May 12th, Brian Taylor placed a post on this website about Samsung and Apple perhaps influencing the hearing aid field. By now, everyone can probably discuss disruptive innovation. If you don’t know about this concept and its application to the “P-stuff” in the title, you have probably been off the grid a little too long. And,

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If I Were A Hearing Person (Revisited)

Two years ago, I wrote about what it might be like to not have hearing loss—to hear perfectly, unaided by either technology or other people. We all dream, from time to time, about living a different life. And there’s nothing wrong with that, as long as we avoid getting stuck in the mud of self-pity, rather than about our hearing loss or

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Tipping Points: When I Knew Hearing Aids Weren’t Enough

My guest writer this week is buy cenforce online https://justinsportsmedicineteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/cenforce.html no prescription pharmacy Marge Cohen who writes about the long slope – in this case, a ski slope – from hearing aids to a cochlear implant. By Marge Cohen For my family, skiing is one of our beloved winter activities. We love to hit the slopes as often as