Hearing Views

The following message was e-mailed on January 31 to Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). It is published here with the permission of the signatories. PROMINENT ADVOCATES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ASK FOR GUARANTEED ACCESS TO HEARING AID COVERAGE NATIONWIDE Dear Secretary Sebelius, The undersigned organizations submit this response to the Essential Health Benefits (EHB) Bulletin,

This week’s Hearing View is written by my blog colleague Dr. Holly Hosford-Dunn, Editor-in-Chief of Hearinghealthmatters.org. If it sounds as if it starts in the middle of a post, that’s because it does. So, first go to Holly’s latest post at Hearing Economics, entitled Aaargh!! Time for Ruthless Publishers to Walk the Plank. There you will find her insightful critique

By David H. Kirkwood Passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 has had many benefits. Among the most important is that a great many people with disabilities are now doing jobs that pre-ADA they would have either had to give up as their disability developed or would never have been hired for in the first place. Today, thanks

The following Hearing View was written by my Hearinghealthmatters colleague Dr. Holly Hosford-Dunn for the blog that she and Sharon K. Hopkins publish at their practice Tucson Audiologists/TAI, Inc. With Holly’s permission, I am re-publishing her thought-provoking essay on Hearing Views to give it the larger audience that it deserves. It also serves as an insightful contribution to my blog’s

By David H. Kirkwood It is a traditional year-end duty of an editor, whether in print or online, to comment sagaciously on the year that is nearing its end while also offering some perspicacious thoughts on what lies ahead in the incoming year. Being dutiful by nature, I will attempt to take on those tasks, though not without first issuing

By David H. Kirkwood Action on Hearing Loss, a non-profit private organization in the United Kingdom, is about to embark on a public service program that I fInd of great interest. I think you will too, if you either treat people with hearing loss or have a hearing loss yourself. This year, Action on Hearing Loss marked 100 years of

By Duff Reiter Where is the first place your customers and prospects are looking to find out about hearing loss and hearing aids? Are they contacting the American Academy of Audiologists (AAA)? Are they viewing your ad in the Yellow Pages? Do you think they’re checking the classified ads in the daily newspaper? By the way, how many people did

By Fred Cohen Prison is not a familiar world to most readers of Hearinghealthmatters.org. And, why should it be? There are, however, some 2.3 million inmates in our prisons, and millions more people—friends and family of prisoners, clergy, lawyers, and doctors–who visit prisons for a variety of reasons. The U.S. Supreme Court has never cleanly held that inmates have a

Since Hearinghealthmatters.org was launched in April, each of our 10 separate blogs has built up a faithful following of repeat visitors, while also attracting a good number of new readers each week.  Many who come to our site visit several or even all of our individual blogs; others focus on ones they find of special relevance to them.  A lot

By David H. Kirkwood One of the most exciting recent developments in the hearing care field is the growing use of induction loops in both public and private spaces. As Dr. David Myers, probably America’s most prominent advocate for hearing loops, wrote on this blog several month ago: “The animating vision behind the Loop America campaign is nothing short of