My Favorite New Sport: Hike ‘n’ Hear
I don’t do sports, or what most people consider to be sports. It’s not that I don’t like sports, it’s more that they don’t like me. When swinging a baseball bat, the ball consistently flies half a foot above or below the bat. So annoying. Golf was a possibility but if by some divine fluke…
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The Outdoor Cure for Hearing Loss
How’s this for a salad bar of communication strategies? Hearing aids. Cochlear implants. Speechreading skills. Assistive listening devices. Telecoils and looping. Bluetooth. Captioning on TV, at the movies, on our smartphones. Assertiveness in having our needs met. Manipulating our listening environment with lighting, good sight lines, and low-or-no background noise. People with hearing loss pick…
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