Several people have asked if I’ve seen “Sound of Metal,” a movie about hearing loss, which was released late last year. At first I avoided it. The trailer featured a metal drummer playing very loudly, and it didn’t look all that appealing. I finally did watch, with the sound turned way down and the captions … Continue reading Hollywood and Hearing Loss
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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Stigma: Why It’s So Hard to Talk About Hearing Loss
This week the World Health Organization asked me to speak at the launch of their global Report on Hearing. The audience, from all over the world via Zoom, were primarily hearing professionals and public health experts whose work is about hearing loss but who don’t have it themselves. I was asked to speak about my … Continue reading Stigma: Why It’s So Hard to Talk About Hearing Loss
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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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When Seeing is Hearing
Isolation isn't conducive to writing about communication difficulties. Since communication difficulties are what this blog is about, I haven't written much in recent months. I'm getting along just fine with no one to talk to. I’m hearing well. Or at least I feel like I’m hearing well. But that’s because everything I hear – the … Continue reading When Seeing is Hearing
Katherine Bouton: Smart Hearing 