Tips for the best ways to enjoy recorded music and books. The average American drives 13,746 miles a year, according to the Federal Highway Administration. What is the safest activity to fill those hours? Listening. Listening to recorded books, music, … Continue reading Driving and Listening When You’re Hard of Hearing
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Higher Medical Bills for Those Who Don’t Treat Hearing Loss
The cost of hearing loss treatment is far less than the cost of not treating. by Katherine Bouton. First published on AARP, April 19, 2016. Two new studies point out the serious consequences of untreated hearing loss. In one, researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina found that middle-aged adults with untreated hearing loss had … Continue reading Higher Medical Bills for Those Who Don’t Treat Hearing Loss
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It May Be Later Than You Think
Two Good Reasons to Get Your Hearing Checked Now The negative health effects of hearing loss may affect people at a younger age than was previously believed. “Higher Health Care Costs in Middle-Aged US Adults With Hearing Loss,” published online April 7 in the journal JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, found significantly greater health costs in middle-aged adults … Continue reading It May Be Later Than You Think
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This is One Big Ear
I'm traveling in Sicily. Many wonderful things including fabulous food, wine, Greek and Roman ruins, Sicilians, olives. These photos are from archeological park near Siracusa. This cave is called Dionysius's Ear, Orecchio di Dionisio. It was carved out of limestone in Greek/Roman times as a place to store water. The digging technique was ingenious and also labor … Continue reading This is One Big Ear
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Deaf Lawyers to Join Supreme Court Bar in Mass Ceremony
This article ran in the National Law Journal this week. Progress! Tony Mauro, The National Law Journal April 11, 2016 Anat Maytal.Courtesy photo Thirteen deaf or hard-of-hearing lawyers are set to be sworn in to the U.S. Supreme Court bar on April 19, in a first-ever mass event that symbolizes the strides lawyers with disabilities have … Continue reading Deaf Lawyers to Join Supreme Court Bar in Mass Ceremony
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Lend Me Your Ears
This has nothing to do with hearing. It's an exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. But I love the picture. Ears, ears, ears. And some earrings.
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Hard of Hearing? A Simple Solution.
Most of us have been at events with a sign-language interpreter, but how many have ever seen a CART screen? CART (Communication Access Real Time) is the workhorse of hearing assistance, the one tec… Source: Hard of Hearing? A Simple Solution.
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Hard of Hearing? A Simple Solution.
Most of us have been at events with a sign-language interpreter, but how many have ever seen a CART screen? CART (Communication Access Real Time) is the workhorse of hearing assistance, the one technology that works for almost everyone with hearing problems. CART is one of the best-kept secrets in the hearing loss world. We … Continue reading Hard of Hearing? A Simple Solution.
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Can’t Hear These Iconic Sounds of Spring?
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?
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Hard of Hearing? Nobody’s Listening.
There is an interesting article in Sunday’s New York Times titled “Deaf and Hard of Hearing Fight to Be Heard.” Unfortunately it addresses only a small proportion of the “d… Source: Hard of Hearing? Nobody's Listening.
Katherine Bouton: Smart Hearing 