Awareness

Facing the Music

How I came to understand that having a hearing loss made me a super reader of nonverbal cues.

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Shouting From the Rooftops

We have been heartened by the increased mainstream media coverage of healthy hearing lately.

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More Like a Boost

Let’s push back against the idea of a “loss” or “impairment” when it comes to hearing.

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What We Can Learn From the Eclipse

Perhaps most of all, the message of enjoying responsibly is one we really try to impart.

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Tackling the Health Risks of Social Isolation

“Lacking social connection is as dangerous as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day,” according to a U.S. Surgeon General report.

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Leveling Up Awareness About Gaming and the Risk to Hearing

Potential solutions include reducing dynamic range, volume reduction when not actively participating in the game, and actively reducing sounds that are known to induce tinnitus, or hearing ringing or buzzing sounds.

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To Me, I Am the Lucky One

I knew how uncomfortable deafness could make people. What I hadn’t expected were some of the reactions my hearing aids got. To me, the hearing aids were life-changing. To me, I was the lucky one.

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Telecoil Plus Bluetooth, Please

We need both Bluetooth and telecoils in our hearing devices to take advantage of all the hearing situations we encounter so that sound can reach our ears, with clarity.

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I Looked Like Me

For the first time I feel my designs actually have a deeper meaning. The work I do is not superficial. It has a deeper function: to change the lifestyles of hard of hearing people and to normalize hearing problems.

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Recruiting for a Gene Therapy Trial

Right now we are actively recruiting volunteers with hearing loss to participate in an outpatient research study to understand the genes that cause non-syndromic autosomal dominant hearing loss (DFNA).

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