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Dear Family: A Holiday Hearing Letter

November 26, 2019November 26, 2019Gael Hannan 3 Comments Communication strategies / Families affected by hearing loss / Holiday hearing tips / Hyperacusis / Tinnitus

Dear Family, Every year, before Thanksgiving and Christmas and Hanukkah and all the other traditions observed in our fabulous extended family, I give you the same pep talk. You know the pep talk I mean – the one where I urge you to put some pep into how you talk with me so that I…

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. …