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Visiting The Family (with Hearing Loss)

April 23, 2019April 18, 2019Gael Hannan Leave a comment Families affected by hearing loss / Hearing Loss

By Kathi Mestayer Visits with my family are always a challenge, to varying degrees. All of the adults who share DNA are hard-of-hearing. Dad, who is 93 now, has a cochlear implant in one ear and the other ear is deaf. His wife, Mary, has hyperacusis, or extreme sound-sensitivity, so conversation can get tricky. …

I Have Hearing Loss. My Partner Doesn’t. Help!

January 22, 2019Gael Hannan Leave a comment Cochlear implant surgery / Cochlear Implants / Communicating with Hearing Loss / Communication strategies / Families affected by hearing loss / Hearing Loss and relationships / Mumbling and hearing loss / Relationships and hearing loss

In the vocabulary of people with hearing loss (PWHL), a person who doesn’t require amplification, implants, captioning, or clear speech from everyone is referred to as ‘hearing’. As in, I have hearing loss and my husband is hearing. I refer to him in my work as the Hearing Husband, but should you meet him, he…