It may be time to get your hearing checked. Birdsong. Where ever you live in the United States, the great spring bird migration happens at this time of the year. Warblers, tanagers, grosbeaks, orioles, thrushes, vireos fly through on their way from winter homes in the tropics, singing as they wing their way north. One … Continue reading Can’t Hear These Iconic Sounds of Spring?
Cochlear Implants
Dear Abby, Please Think Again!
Dear Abby, your response to “Trapped in a Situation” about her hearing-impaired husband “Norm” almost made me weep. "Wife of deaf husband seeks to cope in new place." I wonder what deaf husband thinks of all this. Yes, of course Norm should inform the retirement community director about his hearing loss. But why did you … Continue reading Dear Abby, Please Think Again!
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Good News! For a change.
Good news for people with hearing loss. Last week CMS, which runs Medicare and Medicaid, reversed itself on an earlier proposal to eliminate coverage for bone-anchored cochlear implants, like Cochlear’s Baha and Oticon’s Ponto. This is good news for two reasons. First, it preserves coverage for an important and expensive technology. People with certain kinds of hearing … Continue reading Good News! For a change.
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An Invisible War Wound
An Invisible War Wound: Out of sight, and mostly out of mind. When we think about the injuries our servicemen and -women endure, on this Veterans’ Day, we naturally focus on major life-changing injuries like Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. We worry about suicide in veterans. We see veterans struggling to learn to walk again with prosthetic limbs or … Continue reading An Invisible War Wound
Katherine Bouton: Smart Hearing 