Hearing Views

Editor’s Note:  This article first appeared in the Better Hearing Consumer section of HearingHealthMatters.org on August 15, 2015.   By Gael Hannan   Hearing care professionals believe they know what people need in order to hear better.  After all, they’ve gone to school to learn this. People with hearing loss (PWHL) know they want to hear better, but believe they don’t

  “Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll come up: if not, I’ll stay down here till I’m somebody else.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland I’ve just returned from the 2016 AAA conference in Phoenix. As usual, the days and evenings were a whirlwind of greeting old friends,

by Gael Hannan and Joanne Deluzio Editor’s Note: This blog was originally published in the Better Hearing Consumer in February 2013. However, in view of recent upheaval in opinion about how hearing health should be delivered, we find it still pertinent today. In the preceding blog, How I Learned to Love My Audiologist, I had talked about my ideal hearing health professional

    A group of us got together for dinner a while back. There were five old audiologists sitting in a nice restaurant, having a cocktail (or two) and dinner, while talking about von Bekesy patterns and the past.  I don’t recall exactly what I ate that evening, but I certainly remember the conversations.  At one lull, a past president

Lolly Wigall relates the frustrating experience of maneuvering an emergency situation with an elderly family member with a disability.   I was visiting my elderly father recently.  He lives across the country from me so I don’t have the opportunity to visit him very many times a year.  His health is declining, which is very sad to see. He is

Kathi Mestayer takes a look at the possible changes to rules for wireless hearing aid compatibility, including Apple’s request to be exempt from putting telecoils in their iPhones.   By Kathi Mestayer     Apple has certainly been in its share of dust-ups lately.  Now there’s one that has raised eyebrows in the hard-of-hearing tech arena.  It has to do

I had a wonderful English teacher at Scranton Central High School. Her name was Muriel Stromberg and she had a Mamie Eisenhower haircut. I realized as I was writing this that probably no one reading this column would have any idea what a Mamie Eisenhower haircut was, so I’ve provided a photo. I don’t remember a lot about Mrs. Stromberg’s class

In this month’s edition of The Contrarian, Michael Metz poses some questions about testing procedures that all audiologists might want to ask themselves.          For a couple of decades during the early years of modern audiology (after the fifties), it seemed like there was a new test introduced at least a couple of times per year.  These

Lolly Wigall discusses the frustrations of  hearing loss, even for long-time hearing aid users whose family and friends don’t understand what aids actually do. Having a hearing loss is not fun.  Many times hearing loss “creeps” up on the person.  Most times hearing loss is gradual.  I tell people that hearing loss begins when you are 21 years old.  But,

Lauren Storck writes about the crucial need for captioning – on social media as well as at live campaign events – to help voters with hearing loss understand their candidates’ election platforms.   By Lauren Storck   We the people! If you are part of a country that votes, you want to protect not only your right to vote, but your understanding of the issues;