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Have you seen that video on social media where a young boy with color blindness puts on special glasses that allow him to see colors? It’s a real choker-upper to witness his instant, powerful emotion at seeing something he’d never seen before, a beauty that had only been described to him, but never experienced. And your eyes may have filled

May I be calm and without fear. Tinnitus does not rule me… If you have chronic head noise, you’ll try almost anything to get rid of it. It follows you everywhere, this tinnitus, like a biting bug that you can’t shake off. Science can’t figure out how to fix that bug bite that throbs on your arm. It bothers you

Dear Readers: During this holiday season, the editors at Hearing Health & Technology Matters (HHTM) are taking some time off. However, we are not leaving you without anything to read on our blog this week. Instead, we are publishing a special holiday edition filled with what we call our Readers’ Choices. Our Readers’ Choices featured this week are the posts

As much as we would like to forget it, 2020 will be talked and written about for a long time. It was simply annus horribilis—the horrible year. People with hearing loss (PWHL) didn’t have it any worse than anyone else who was separated from loved ones or who suffered economic hardship or who ran out of things to watch on

Today, I had a minor thing done to my two front teeth which had chipped, and from start to finish it was an accessible and pain-free experience. That made it an unusual experience. A few years ago, I wrote an article in the form of a letter to a different dentist, who had given me a root canal, a process

Silent night…all is calm….sleep in (heavenly) peace…. These phrases from “Silent Night”, the beautiful Christmas carol, are the goal for anyone who lives with tinnitus—especially the rough, unrelenting tinnitus that prevents us from getting to sleep, staying asleep, or getting back to sleep when we awake at 2am and the whooshes and whines roar into our heads like trains. We

Have you been shocked at how masks seem to muffle the sound of what people are saying?  Are you amazed at how, when someone puts on a mask, you can’t understand everything they say? buy norvasc online https://getthetreatment.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/norvasc.html no prescription online pharmacy buy topamax online no prescription pharmacy You’re a hearing person (that’s how we people with hearing loss refer

We need to see what we cannot hear. When people who are deaf, people who have hearing loss, can’t hear the words, we need to see them being made through speechreading. But that only helps for about half the words, because many speech sounds and words occur out of sight – behind the lips, back in the throat, the tongue

Thank goodness that people with hearing loss are kind and supportive of other people with hearing loss. Aren’t we? Like almost everybody I know – and the millions of people I don’t know – I’ve been struggling with the fierce polarization of views in this challenging time of politics and pandemic. We all think: how can people not see things

One of the annoying things about hearing loss, for many people, is having to depend on things and other people to help them hear. Adults may be reluctant to admit their developing hearing loss because it threatens their independence, so they dismiss suggestions from their family to get help. But they don’t want help—from hearing professionals, from technology, from family,