Neil Bauman, Ph.D.

Practical Coping Strategies for Hearing Loss

Could you give me some practical tips for dealing with hearing loss in the home and in restaurants? It hadn’t occurred to me that re-arranging furniture in my home might help me hear better. Can you tell me more? Also about where to sit in places like restaurants.

This article explains practical (and free) coping strategies to employ in your home and when dining at restaurants so you can hear better.

New to Hearing Loss? Here’s the Help You Need

“Help! I’m losing my hearing. What do I do? Who do I see? Where do I go for help?” If you are anxiously groping for the answers to these and other questions regarding your hearing loss or the hearing loss of a close family member, take heart.

This article gives numerous on-line (and other) sources of information and help. It also contains an annotated list of a number of good books on various aspects of hearing loss and other ear problems.

The Single Most Effective Hearing Loss Coping Strategy

If you only had one coping strategy you could employ, and it mustn’t cost a cent, what would your single most effective hearing loss coping strategy be?

This article explains the one most important thing you can do to help yourself hear better in any situation.

Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease (AIED)

There seems to be a lot of talk about autoimmune inner ear disease now. What exactly is this? How do I know if this caused my hearing loss? What can I do about it?

This article includes what AIED is; its characteristics and risk factors; and how doctors diagnose and treat it.

Diplacusis—The Strange World of People with Double Hearing

A musician explained, “I suddenly began experiencing a strange phenomenon with my hearing. I now hear music through my right ear at the correct pitch, while, at the same time, I hear the same music a semitone higher in my left ear. Am I going crazy? What can I do to correct this condition?” This article explains what diplacusis is, its several forms, what can cause it, and some tips for dealing with it.

Kinds of Hearing Losses

I have something called a cookie-bite loss. I have no idea what it is, but that is what my audiologist called it. I have also heard of ski-slope losses and losses with other weird names. What are they anyway?

This article explains what these weird names for hearing losses mean and illustrates them with audiograms so you can see at a glance what they are.

Neil Bauman, Ph.D.

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