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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The World’s Shortest Audiology Course

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the Better Hearing Consumer section of HearingHealthMatters.org on August 15, 2015. By Gael Hannan Hearing care professionals believe they know what people need in order to hear better. After all, they’ve gone to school to learn this. People with hearing loss (PWHL) know they want to hear better, but believe they don’t

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A HoH’s To-Do List

It’s Monday, the beginning of the week, and time to update my hearing loss To Do list. Because hearing losss is what I have as well as what I do, my list never changes much from week to week—nor does it ever quite online pharmacy finasteride with best prices today in the USA get done. Call the audiologist to

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Easy Housecleaning Tips for Hard of Hearing People

Note: If you’re looking for tips on how to get oil stains out of your shirt, or how to remove old wallpaper, you’re in the wrong place. People with hearing loss deal with those issues in the same way as hearing people. This article is about dealing with noise, Enemy #1 of people with hearing loss. Housework is noisy. Yesterday,

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Me and My Audie: A New Relationship

by Gael Hannan and Joanne Deluzio Editor’s Note: This blog was originally published in the Better Hearing Consumer in February 2013. However, in view of recent upheaval in opinion about how hearing health should be delivered, we find it still pertinent today. In the preceding blog, How I Learned to Love My Audiologist, I had talked about my ideal hearing health professional

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Tina Gets a CI – Part 2

Beth—February 4, 2014 We survived The Activation. Barbara, the audiologist, presented Tina with packs containing the two processors, the behind-the-ear version (Naida) and the clip-on version (Neptune). I had less baggage when I traveled to Australia for two weeks. Right now, we’re focusing on the Naida—the manual looks like a Tom Clancy novel, but apparently only the first 62 pages

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AAA: How YOU Doin’?

A group of us got together for dinner a while back. There were five old audiologists sitting in a nice restaurant, having a cocktail (or two) and dinner, while talking about von Bekesy patterns and the past. I don’t recall exactly what I ate that evening, but I certainly remember the conversations. At one lull, a past president

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Tina Gets a CI

Editor’s Note: A person’s hearing loss has a powerful impact on family members, especially spouses. But what if both partners have a hearing loss? My good friends Tina Thompson and Dr. Beth Wilson share a moving and humorous account of the early days of Tina’s cochlear implant in 2014. buy lisinopril online https://cosmeticsurgeryadvancements.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/lisinopril.html By Tina Thompson and Beth Wilson

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Travel Alert: What Passengers with Hearing Loss Really Need

(Hint: It’s not a wheelchair.) I travel frequently for pleasure and business. My severe hearing loss poses no problem when I’m traveling with family or friends, who take over the most crucial communication chores. I depend on them to catch unexpected gate changes, pilot announcements about engine failure, and what train station we’re coming into—hopefully not the one after our destination. These

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iPhones and Hearing-Aid Compatibility: Re-Defining Accessibility?

Kathi Mestayer takes a look at the possible changes to rules for wireless hearing aid compatibility, including Apple’s request to be exempt from putting telecoils in their iPhones. By Kathi Mestayer Apple has certainly been in its share of dust-ups lately. Now there’s one that has raised eyebrows in the hard-of-hearing tech arena. It has to do

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Am I a Hearing Person Wannabe?

The green-eyed monster rises up in me every once in a while. I can’t help it—it’s human nature. My human nature. There are occasional moments when, stabbed in the heart with envy, I look at a hearing person (someone with no hearing loss) and think, “I wish I were you.” Usually it’s more like, “I wish I could do that!”