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Closing the Gap: The Magical Intimacy of Hearing Loops

September 12, 2018Gael Hannan 7 Comments Accessible political events / Accommodation for Hearing Loss / Captioning / CART / Closed captioning / Cochlear Implants / Communicating with Hearing Loss / Elizabeth May / hearing aids and cochlear implants / hearing loops / Hearing Loss / Juliette Sterkens / Richard McKinley / telecoils

I’m not in Kansas anymore. I can say that because a couple of weeks ago, I was in Kansas for the first time. So, now I belong to the club of We’re-Not-in-Kansas-Anymore-People. (I don’t have a Toto, so I use the royal ‘we’.) But while I was there, magic happened. The Lied Center, the performing…

How to Talk to a Hard of Hearing Person (2016)

October 4, 2016Gael Hannan 2 Comments Acceptance of hearing loss / Accommodation for Hearing Loss / Communicating with Hearing Loss / Communication strategies

Note: I first posted this article five years ago to the day. I’ve made only a few minor changes, but the info is the same and even more important today because, presumably, there are now a lot more people with hearing loss. That means there are a lot more people who need to know how to talk with ‘us’:…