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Hard of Hearing People Still Face Job Discrimination

by Neil Bauman, Ph.D.

Millions of hard of hearing people still face serious barriers to employment. Just getting a job–any job–is tough for those with significant hearing loss. Getting promoted is even harder.

According to the RNID in the United Kingdom:

Over half (53%) of those surveyed cited “attitude of employers” as one of the main barriers preventing them from finding employment. These barriers also severely restrict career prospects for those already in employment, creating artificial and unnecessary “glass ceilings.” In fact, 51% of those currently working felt they had been held back from promotion or developing their careers as a result of their hearing loss and 34% felt their job didn’t make full use of their qualifications.

The situation is not much different here in the United States or in Canada.

So often, employers treat hard of hearing people as though they lost their brains along with their hearing. This is just not true. Hard of hearing people have abilities, skills and talents just like everyone else. As Cheryl Cullen of the RNID says, “People with hearing loss represent a talented and skilled, but largely untapped, labour resource.”

Hearing loss isn’t the barrier to working that so many employers ignorantely assume it is. Hard of hearing people just need the right support so they can do their jobs in spite of their hearing losses. The cost of accommodations for hard of hearing people is generally minimal, and the payback can be enormous.

Not only are hard of hearing people loyal to employers who accommodate their needs, many of them make even better workers than those with normal hearing! This is because they focus on the job and are not as easily distracted by sounds around them, nor do they waste as much of their employer’s time in social chit chat around the water cooler.

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Loop Systems

Loop your home or meeting room. Discover how you can hear wonderfully clear sound again when listening to the TV/radio, etc, or when listening to a speaker at a meeting.

Loop systems are one of the best-kept secrets in town. To learn more about Loop Systems and what they can do for you, click here.

Take Control of Your Tinnitus—Here’s How

If your ears ring, buzz, chirp, hiss, click or roar, you know just how annoying tinnitus can be. You do not have to put up with this racket for the rest of your life. This book teaches you many things you can do to help bring your tinnitus under your control so it no longer bothers you.

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Sounds Now Too Loud for You?

Hypersensitive to Sound front coverIf some (or all) normal sounds seem so loud they “blow the top of your head off”, or make you wince or jump, or cause you headaches or ear pain, or affect your balance, or result in fear or annoyance of sounds so you feel you have to avoid these sounds, this book is for you!

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Hearing Phantom Sounds?

When hard of hearing people begin hearing phantom voices or music, they immediately worry they are going crazy. It never crosses their minds that they are sane and are just experiencing Musical Ear syndrome.

To learn more about the strange phantom sounds of Musical Ear syndrome and what you can do about them, click here to read a comprehensive article about Musical Ear Syndrome.

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Neil G. Bauman, Ph.D.

1013 Ridgeway Drive, Lynden,
WA 98264-1057 USA

Email: neil@hearinglosshelp.com

Phone: 360-778-1266 (M-F 9:00 AM-5:00 PM PST)

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"The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life [which also includes perfect hearing] through Jesus Christ our Lord." [Romans 6:23]

"But know this, in the last days perilous times will come" [2 Timothy 3:1]. "For there will be famines, pestilences, and [severe] earthquakes in various places" [Matthew 24:7], "distress of nations, the sea and the waves roaring"—tsunamis, hurricanes—Luke 21:25, but this is good news if you have put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, for "when these things begin to happen, lift up your heads [and rejoice] because your redemption draws near" [Luke 21:28].