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Move Your Lips, Dammit!

Gael Hannan 3 Comments Acceptance of hearing loss / Accessible environments / Accommodation for Hearing Loss / Advocacy about hearing loss / Communicating with Hearing Loss / Communication strategies / Hearing Loss / Speechreading

Hey girlfriend! If there’s one thing I’d like you to do for me It’s to move your lips more, so that I can see What you’re trying to say.   We’ve been friends forever and I can tell what you’re thinking, It’s the way your mouth says stuff that confuses me, Because they don’t move.…

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Closing the Gap: The Magical Intimacy of Hearing Loops

Gael 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…

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