Neil Bauman, Ph.D.

“In the USA in 2006, there were 412,500 home fires that killed 2,580 people and injured another 12,925 people. That’s scary! On the average, these same fires killed one person with hearing loss every 15 hours, and injured a person with hearing loss every 3 hours. That’s really scary if you are one of the 70 million Americans with hearing loss!”

You don’t have to become one of those statistics. Although having a hearing loss puts you at a decided disadvantage when using standard alerting devices to warn you of fires, you can put the odds in your favor if you follow the four basic steps in this article. This article explains a number of practical coping strategies for both preventing fires from happening in your home and wonderful new alerting systems to quickly get your attention—even if you have a hearing loss—if a fire should happen to break out.

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.

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.