My recent article for Hearing Tracker ponders whether you should bring your family to your next audiologist appointment. What do you think? The power of including your family in your hearing loss journey can’t be overstated. This was on clear display at a recent HLAA panel discussion on family relationships and hearing loss. The panelists included a married Continue reading
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Don’t Take Your Hearing Loss Journey Alone
My latest post for FindHearing talks about the importance of finding hearing loss peers. Thank you to all my readers for making this site a vibrant source of support and learning for people with hearing loss. See an excerpt of the piece below. The Importance of Hearing Loss Peers Like most people, I started my hearing Continue reading
Finding Comfort with the Discomfort of Hearing Loss
One of the reasons hearing loss is so frustrating is because we cannot control it. When entering a new situation, we don’t know what listening challenges we will meet. We can’t figure out in advance if an important speaker will be a mumbler or worse yet a mumbler with a voice in your hardest to Continue reading
Interesting Reads: Ephphatha By Dr. Thomas Caulfield
I enjoy reading inspiring stories about people with hearing loss, especially tales like the one in Ephphatha, a new book by Dr. Thomas Caulfield. The book shares the courageous journey of his son Christopher, born profoundly deaf, and his struggles to combat and overcome this disability through much of his young life. There were many Continue reading
It’s Time To Silence All This Unwanted Noise
The banging is excruciating. So are the jack hammering and the sawing and the beeps from the trucks backing up. And it is all outside my door. Living in New York City has many advantages, but one significant downside is the noise. Not only are cars and buses rushing by on the streets at all Continue reading
