by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Some children are much more accepting of their hearing losses and their need to wear hearing aids if they have friends or siblings that also wear hearing aids, or even a doll or teddy bear that is “hard of hearing” and wears hearing aids just like they do. The question is, […]
Coping Strategies
The “Stick It in Your Ear and Hear” Philosophy of Wearing Hearing Aids—and Why It Doesn’t Work
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Many hard of hearing people are not being fair to either themselves or their audiologists. They go to their audiologists and want “instant hearing” again. They fail to realize that their brains need to re-learn how to hear again—and retraining brains takes time. Audiologists, too, are at fault for not making […]
Special Voice Amplified Phones for People with Very Weak Voices
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A man wrote: I thought there was a cordless phone out there that could do all the things that a regular phone could do, but could also amplify my voice as well as the voice of the person I am talking to? I’m not aware of any voice amplified cordless (or […]
Singing on Key—Here’s One Way to Do It
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady asked: I am looking for a (small portable) device that would provide feedback when I sing to let me know if my voice is actually matching the note on the piano or the note sung by another singer. I know that there are computer programs to teach voice and […]
My Mom Won’t Wear Her Hearing Aids
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A concerned (and frustrated) daughter wrote I’m hoping that you can help me. My mother is 63 and has significant hearing loss which was diagnosed about 20 years ago. She bought hearing aids about 2 years ago and has never, ever used them. She is not in denial about her hearing […]
The Benefits of Hearing and Speechreading Together
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. One lady asked, I was wondering if it is possible to speech read what people are saying if you can’t hear them at all? I am finding that if I can hear them even a little bit, I can speech read a lot of what they are saying. but […]