Earlier this week, on October 19, the FDA issued its long-awaited proposal on Over-the-Counter hearing aids. Over the counter means direct to consumer, without the intervention of an audiologist. The FDA’s proposal followed four years of discussion about OTC aids, dating from the passage of the bipartisan Over the Counter Hearing Aid Act in August … Continue reading What Do Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids Mean for You?
Month: October 2021
“Captions are the Wheelchair Ramp for the Deaf”
A year or so ago at a meeting on the challenge of global hearing loss, one of my fellow presenters, Catharine McMahon, head of the Department of Linguistics at MacQuarie University in Sydney Australia, said something that has stuck with me: "The challenge of disability should become society’s challenge. Change the environment, not the Individual: … Continue reading “Captions are the Wheelchair Ramp for the Deaf”
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“Coda” is about Deaf Culture. Can people with hearing loss relate? I did.
There’s a moment in the movie CODA that shocked me – after all these years – with the visceral understanding of how similar and yet how different the experience of deafness is to someone who is culturally Deaf and to someone like me who is functionally deaf and oral. CODA, which stands for Child of … Continue reading “Coda” is about Deaf Culture. Can people with hearing loss relate? I did.
Katherine Bouton: Smart Hearing 