Category: telephones and hearing loss

Being Hard of Hearing in 1921

Gael Hannan 4 Comments Accommodation for Hearing Loss / Advocacy about hearing loss / Assistive Technology / Children and hearing loss / Communicating with Hearing Loss / Coping with hearing loss / Education and Hearing Loss / Families affected by hearing loss / Hearing Loss / Hearing testing / History of hearing loss / Movies and Hearing Loss / Research into hearing loss / Schools for deaf children / Speech articulation / telephones and hearing loss / Youth with Hearing Loss

Never judge a book by its cover – even an inexpensive photocopied one – because what’s inside might be jaw-dropping. This week, sorting through 20 years’ accumulation of hearing loss material, I was about to pitch out a spiral-bound booklet called 80 Years of Looking & Learning.  I opened it and was mesmerized.   Compiled in 2001…

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10 Sound Reasons to Use a Hearing Aid or CI

Gael Hannan 3 Comments Advocacy about hearing loss / Assistive Technology / Cochlear Implants / Communicating with Hearing Loss / Hearing Aids / Hearing Aids & Technology / hearing the S sound / Lipreading / Reasons for using technology / Safety and hearing loss / Speechreading / telephones and hearing loss

Listicle – my new word of the day.   List + article = listicle.  You’re reading one right now – a hearing loss listicle (go ahead, say that tongue-twister out loud) – about  the little sounds we can hear thanks to amplification. Sometimes a simple sound can make me pause, grateful and surprised, “I wouldn’t be able to hear…

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