Shari Eberts

Shari Eberts is a passionate hearing health advocate and internationally recognized author and speaker on hearing loss issues. She is the founder of Living with Hearing Loss, a popular blog and online community for people with hearing loss, and an executive producer of We Hear You, an award-winning documentary about the hearing loss experience. Her book, Hear & Beyond: Live Skillfully with Hearing Loss, (co-authored with Gael Hannan) is the ultimate survival guide to living well with hearing loss.

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How to Create Your Own Accessibility at a Conference

I’ve gotten spoiled over the years of my hearing loss advocacy, especially at consumer-related conventions where accommodations are plentiful. Thank you HLAA for always supporting our hearing loss needs with both hearing loops and CART in every session! But sometimes I speak at other types of conferences in hopes of sharing a hearing loss advocacy message with more mainstream audiences.

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Can you Buy Hearing Aids One Place and Service Them in Another?

Post-pandemic I have been wearing glasses more often, but in the warm days of summer, I needed sun protection. It was time for a pair of prescription sunglasses. A hearing loss friend told me about glasses with interchangeable tops—and one of the top options was sunglasses! Sold! Ordering the glasses online was easy. The company contacted my doctor to verify

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The Power of Visual Cues for People with Hearing Loss

It was a dimly lit restaurant and our over-50 crowd struggled to read the menu. One friend turned on her flashlight, another put on reading glasses, and a third used the magnifier app on her phone. Easily accessed workarounds helped each of us to get the information we needed from the menu. buy topamax online topamax online generic online pharmacy

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Greater Hearing Loss Awareness Creates Options

We were in triangle pose—a challenging posture where you bend the body sideways over straight legs. One arm extends upwards towards the sky while the other reaches down for the floor. Reaches is the key word, because depending on your flexibility, the hand aiming for the floor may not get there. Or even close. And that is ok. “If your

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New Dialogue Boost Tool in Prime Video Helps Improve Hearing Accessibility

How many times have you tried to watch an action movie at home, but it was hard to hear the dialogue because of all the background noise? For me, this happens a lot! My family loves action flicks, but I found them hard to enjoy until I discovered a unique work-around—noise-cancelling headphones. The noise-cancelling helps block the gunfire and car

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Making Person-Centered Care a Reality in Clinical Care

How can we work together as an industry to make person-centered care a reality for each appointment? That was the topic of my talk at the Eleventh International Adult Aural Rehabilitation Conference in Woburn, MA. With a focus on aural rehabilitation, this gathering was already singing from the hymn book of person-centered care and a more-than-just-a-hearing-aid approach to audiology. Rather

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Helping Decision Makers Understand Disability as Part of DEI

Increased awareness of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has had positive impact on the workplace and society at large, but despite advancements like the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in the 1990s, disability is often overlooked. Advocacy and education are needed to help existing and burgeoning leaders to better understand the impact of disability on their organizations, clients, stakeholders, and

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It’s Time to Update Hearing Aid Imagery in the Public Domain

Which image below do you think paints hearing loss and hearing aids in a realistic light? Clearly, the one on the bottom right. But not everyone in the mainstream knows this, especially when bombarded by inaccurate and outdated hearing aid imagery on a regular basis. Amid all the media buzz surrounding the launch of OTC hearing aids, only a very

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Hearing Health On Display at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

It’s time to cross one item off my bucket list — attending the Consumer Electronics Show. Known simply as CES, the annual convention brings the movers and shakers in consumer electronics together for networking, new product launches, promotion, trendspotting, and good old-fashioned deal making. It was thrilling to see hearing health on display amid the latest products in gaming, housewares,

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Why Isn’t Medical Treatment Hearing Loss Friendly?

“I’m calling with some instructions for your upcoming medical procedure,” the nurse spoke rapidly into the phone. online pharmacy buy amoxil no insurance with best prices today in the USA “I have hearing loss. Can you please email them to me instead?” I asked. “Umm,” she replied hesitantly, “I would have to get special permission.” “OK, let’s try it,” I