No question about it, masks have been a pain for people with hearing aids. The elastic ear piece gets tangled with the behind-the-ear hearing-aid component and sometimes pulls it off. Wearing a mask has been not only annoying but sometimes disastrous when coupled with hearing aids or cochlear implants. I lost a cochlear implant (found … Continue reading The Mask Problem: Solved
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Zoom Fatigue for People with Hearing Loss
Zoom fatigue is real, as an article in National Geographic lays out very clearly: "'Zoom Fatigue' may be with us for years. Here's how we'll cope." But let me just say that the author of this article has no idea what Zoom fatigue is like for people with hearing loss. We don't just endure those … Continue reading Zoom Fatigue for People with Hearing Loss
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Bad Link: Why Your Brain Loves Closed Captioning
I was trying to share a post by a fellow blogger but it didn't work and I don't know how to fix it. This is the article the original repost was about. WHY YOUR BRAIN LOVES CLOSED CAPTIONING. And this is a link to the other blogger's post.
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Back to Basics
I sometimes forget how surprised and dismayed people are by the loss of their hearing, how much of a hidden disability it remains. I was reminded of this when I attended a virtual meeting this week of the New York City Chapter of The Hearing Loss Association of America. The speaker was Michael A. Harvey, … Continue reading Back to Basics
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Seeing Hearing Loss
This week I'm going to refer you to a post by my friend and colleague Shari Eberts: A New Take on the Audiogram Designed by Someone with Hearing Loss. Her post is about Jay Alan Zimmerman's new way of measuring hearing. He calls it the Hearing Visualizer. Jay's idea is brilliant, simple, and emphasizes the … Continue reading Seeing Hearing Loss
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“Crip Camp”: When Disability Rights Became Civil Rights
Last July I wrote about the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed into law by President George Bush in July 1990. I wrote about how dramatically it changed life for people with disabilities, and how fortunate I felt to be a beneficiary of this act. My post was called What the ADA … Continue reading “Crip Camp”: When Disability Rights Became Civil Rights
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The Return of Social Anxiety?
Tips for Post-Pandemic Life. On the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration of Covid as a pandemic, we are beginning to see the light ahead. Vaccine numbers are soaring, restaurants are offering indoor dining, people are traveling. Pandemic “pods” are expanding to include more than the two or three friends or family that … Continue reading The Return of Social Anxiety?
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On World Hearing Day, A Joyful Song and a Somber Accounting.
World Hearing Day celebrates hearing, but it also is an opportunity to remind ourselves that hearing is easy to lose and hard to get back.
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Defining Disability
Do I have a disability? It depends on when you ask. If I am alone at home with no noise except my breathing and quiet tapping on the computer keyboard, and I’m wearing my hearing aid and cochlear implant, then No, I don’t. Or at least I don’t perceive the disability. If the phone rings … Continue reading Defining Disability
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A Question About Sound
If a tree falls and I’m not wearing my hearing aids, does it make a sound? One morning last week I was sitting at the kitchen table drinking coffee when I noticed something odd out the window. We have a large, old, beautiful and very decrepit barn. From where I was sitting, a tree trunk … Continue reading A Question About Sound
