Visor cards can help deaf people with their initial communication problems if they are stopped by the police while driving.
Hard of Hearing Student “Paddles” Teacher!
Cool tip for coping with your hearing loss in the classroom or in other group situations, while not interrupting the class all the time.
Do I Always Have to Wear My Hearing Aids?
You don’t have to wear your hearing aids all the time if you don’t want to. Don’t let hearing health care professionals scare you that you will lose your hearing if you don’t.
Hearing Loss and Following Directions
Hard of hearing people often don’t follow your directions because such directions and instructions never got fixed in their brains. Here’s why.
Is Normal Hearing a 0 dB Loss?
Zero dB (decibels) is not total silence like you might think. Nor is hearing at 0 dB “normal” Learn more.
What Is Speech Discrimination?
Speech discrimination is how well you understand what you hear when the speech is comfortably loud enough for you.
Are Hearing Aids for Nerve Deafness?
Don’t let doctors mislead you that hearing aids will not help your nerve deafness (sensorineural hearing loss).
Making Hearing People Feel Comfortable with Your Hearing Loss
Learn how you can quickly make people feel at ease with your hearing loss.
Phantom Sounds–Sane or Psychotic?
A simple way to tell whether the phantom sounds you are hearing are caused by mental illness or whether you have Musical Ear Syndrome caused by damage to your auditory system.
Hearing Loss Due to Knee Surgery
Some of the drugs used during surgery can cause hearing loss–even if they are just operating on one of your knees. Did you know this?
Strenuous Exercise and Resulting Hearing Loss
If you have a condition such as LVAS, then strenuous exercise can permanently damage your hearing. Learn more.
Hearing Aid Batteries–Regular or High Power?
How to tell if you need regular or high-power batteries in your hearing aids.
New Hearing Aids Give Greater Satisfaction
New technology used in modern hearing aids is giving hard of hearing users greater satisfaction that hearing aids have done in the past.
When Everyday Sounds Seem Too Loud
Ear damage can make you even more sensitive to sounds. If this happens you likely have hyperacusis.
Loop Systems–Double-Wire vs. Single-Wire Loops
Double-wire loops or single-wire loops. Which is better for use with t-coils in hearing aids?
Hearing Phantom Music
If you hear phantom music, you likely are not “nuts,” but may have Musical Ear Syndrome.
New Visor Card for Hard of Hearing People
Visor cards can help hard of hearing people with their initial communication problems if they are stopped by the police while driving, especially at night.
Help, I’ve Memorized the Word List!—Understanding Hearing Loss Speech Testing
Whenever I have my hearing tested, it seems the audiologist uses the same list of words each time. I can understand this for people who have never been tested before, but when I get my hearing tested regularly, isn’t this sort of ridiculous? I mean, I’ve half-memorized the word list so I’m not getting fair test results, am I?
This article explains the various tests using word lists, their purpose and what the results mean.
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