Being a HoH in the Workplace
by Michele Nealon (Note: HoH = hard of hearing, person with a hearing impairment) It was a precarious beginning. I came into this world with a range of medical issues and it’s presumed that the medications damaged my hearing. The unaided sounds I hear today are the sounds I have always heard – a…
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My Response to Hearing Loss: A First Responder’s Story
I’m delighted to have Joe Molinari, a police detective with hearing loss, as my guest writer this week. by Joe Molinari In the spring of 2001 I had just completed my seventh year as a police officer in a southern New Hampshire City, when I began noticing the signs of my hearing loss. I…
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