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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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!”

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Grumpy About Hearing Loss? Get Over It

Does any of this sound familiar? This hearing loss thing’s the pits. I can’t enjoy a decent meal in a restaurant because it’s too noisy. Hearing technology took a chunk out of my money, so you’d think that those guys would make ‘em work better. Family dinners are a noise-fest, everybody trying to out-loud the next guy – while I’m

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The Contrarian: Got (Milk) Tests?

In this month’s edition of The Contrarian, Michael Metz poses some questions about testing procedures that all audiologists might want to ask themselves. For a couple of decades during the early years of modern audiology (after the fifties), it seemed like there was a new test introduced at least a couple of times per year. These

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The Outdoor Cure for Hearing Loss

How’s this for a salad bar of communication strategies? Hearing aids. Cochlear implants. Speechreading skills. Assistive listening devices. Telecoils and looping. Bluetooth. Captioning on TV, at the movies, on our smartphones. Assertiveness in having our needs met. Manipulating our listening environment with lighting, good sight lines, and low-or-no background noise. People with hearing loss pick and choose the ones they

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Full to Empty to Full

Cathy Beaton, my guest writer this week, offers a searing and honest look into the hearing loss technology that can both help us—and fail us. By Cathy Beaton I had been wistfully looking forward to some much-needed time off work. And then ‘it’ began. My cochlear implant (CI) started to die, slowly. Shorter battery life and decreasing clarity. It

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Captions Will Capture the Votes

Lauren Storck writes about the crucial need for captioning – on social media as well as at live campaign events – to help voters with hearing loss understand their candidates’ election platforms. By Lauren Storck We the people! If you are part of a country that votes, you want to protect not only your right to vote, but your understanding of the issues;

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Of Cats & Closed Captioning

It was a road trip gone wrong. No, the car didn’t break down in the middle of nowhere and nobody got hurt. It was much much worse – there was a closed captioning crisis in our hotels! The Hearing Husband and I were driving from British Columbia to meet family in Lake Tahoe. It was a scenic three-day, two-night and