Thank you for making our community a welcoming and enriching environment for the 10th year in a row! 2024 has been another busy year of writing, speaking, and hearing access consulting! And of course We Hear You screenings and Hear & Beyond book signings!
I look forward to many more events in 2025!
Most Viewed Posts of 2024
Our top posts of 2024 are listed below. Some are perpetual favorites, while others were new in 2024. Please share them and others with your family, friends, and local communities to build hearing loss awareness and encourage empathy.
- What Is the Best Hearing Aid?
- Paul Simon Boosts Hearing Loss Awareness
- When Your Hearing Aid Settings Are Just Wrong!
- How Many Ways Can You Say “What?”
- Do You Get the Seasonal Spins?
New Advocacy Efforts in 2024
Hearing loss advocacy continued strong in 2024, including 19 speaking engagements and dozens of articles published across a variety of publications. New this year, I became a regular host for This Week in Hearing, a video podcast produced by Hearing Health & Technology Matters. It’s been fun to connect with other hearing loss advocates and to learn from so many others in the industry.
Hear & Beyond: Live Skillfully with Hearing Loss continues strong! In 2024, its formula for skillful living with hearing loss inspired educational trainings for corporations, audiologist groups, teachers, caregivers, and students. Grab your copy on Amazon here. If you liked the book, please write a review on Amazon or on your favorite book review site. Reviews help others find the book too.
New in 2024, Hear & Beyond was part of a pilot at the University of Connecticut to expand community-engaged learning for audiology students. Professor Kathy Cienkowski and I presented on this successful program at the 2024 ASHA Convention. We hope other professors will be inspired to include the book in their classrooms this year. For more information, please be in touch.
Here’s to Healthy Hearing in 2025!
Wishing you all a terrific 2025! I look forward to more hearing loss advocacy, writing, and speaking in 2025. And of course, more community building with all of you! Follow us on social media too!
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Wow, 10 years! Congratulations, Shari. And thank you for your important work.
Thank you Toni!
Congratulations Shari on providing 10 years of inspiration for our hard of hearing community. When people reach out looking for information and resources to help them live with hearing loss, I’m so grateful to be able to share your amazing Blog with them.
Thank you for pointing others to the blog and for your kind words!
Love your blog and all the help you provide those of us with hearing loss. Thank you for being there for us.
Thank you Dolly!
Congratulations! Your advocacy inspired me to jump into it myself. Thank you so much for all your work. Here’s to another 10 years!
Thank you Brad! And thank you for all your advocacy too!
I really appreciate your posts, thank you and happy 10th!
Thank you Eliza!
I want to say thank you so much for creating this blog!! You have helped me tremendously on the 20+ years of my hearing loss journey (I am 55) and I have learned so much from you and your blog. It\’s been informational and inspirational, and made me feel that I am not alone on this difficult path.
With much admiration and gratitude for you!
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Thank you Maitry!