by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A concerned mother asked: Our audiologist has said our 6- year-old daughter might benefit from using an FM receiver in the classroom since she is almost deaf in one ear. My husband and I are unsure if this is a wise course. If we introduce hearing devices early in her physical […]
Free Ways to Learn to Sign (ASL)
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A man explained: I lost my hearing when I was 26. I even tried a cochlear implant, but I’m still deaf. I need to learn sign, but since I don’t have a job, I have very limited income. I need a free way, let me repeat “free” way to learn sign […]
Will Speechreading Help Me With My Kind of Hearing Loss?
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A man asked: I have a question about hearing strategies. Say you’re in a room and you’re trying to understand something. I’m wondering if I should learn how to read lips. It doesn’t seem like it could hurt. Do you need to take a course, or just practice? How […]
Hearing and Pronouncing Words Correctly When You Have a Hearing Loss
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A student wrote: I am a senior in college and have had single-sided deafness since birth. I coped with my hearing loss fairly well, although I do not know what it is like to hear with both ears. The reason I’m writing you is because I have a problem I’d like […]
Options for Single-Sided Deafness
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A man explained: I am deaf on my left side due to four acoustic neuroma surgeries. I now have a TransEar hearing aid but it doesn’t work like I expected. How about a CROS aid? Also, what else is new on the market? There are a number of solutions for single-sided […]
Effective Ways to Hear Questions from the Audience if You Are the Speaker
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady explained: I have severe hearing loss and am looking for an assistive device that might help me in meetings and conferences, especially when I am the presenter. I’ve really cut back on doing these things because I can’t hear the speaker, or when I’m presenting—those in the audience who […]
Hearing Loss Support Groups—both On-line and Face-to-Face
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A man explained: I am interested in finding information about face-to-face support groups for those of us who are hard of hearing. Do you have any insight on finding such a group? I have searched briefly on the web and called the local self-help center but have not found anything. If […]
Prevent Elderly People from Losing Their Hearing Aids
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady explained: I am a Social Service Director at a healthcare facility. I work with elderly people and continually run into the problem of resident’s losing their hearing aids. I was curious as to whether there are any devices or adaptations that are being sold to secure hearing aids to […]
Role Models for Hard of Hearing and Deaf People
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Many hard of hearing people lack successful role models and mentors, so they buy into the hearing world’s belief that hard of hearing people can’t do many jobs, and are thus relegated to low paying menial jobs. The truth is, hard of hearing people can do many, many jobs with proper […]
Becoming Friends with Your New Hearing Aids Revisited
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Audiologist Erin Newman, Au.D., is on the ball and goes the second mile to help her patients. She wrote, A couple of years ago, while searching the Internet for articles I needed for an Au.D. course, I came across your wonderful article entitled: “Becoming Friends with Your New Hearing […]
Consumer Action Guide on Air Travel
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. The Deaf and Hard of Hearing Consumer Advocacy Network (DHHCAN) has just released their new Consumer Action Guide on Air Travel. This guide is based upon the recent update of the Air Carrier Access Act regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation in May 2009, during one of the most […]
Helping Your Child Deal with the Grief of Hearing Loss
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. The father of a hard of hearing child asked: Does your kid (or did you, as a kid) ever get depressed about hearing loss? Our eleven year old son has worn hearing aids since age three. When he started, we successfully made it a happy condition, as he ran to show […]
Computers Now Better at Speechreading (Lip-reading) than Humans
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A new study by the University of East Anglia has revealed the surprising results that computers are now better at lip-reading (speechreading) than humans are. In one demonstration. the computers recognized 80% of the words presented, whereas the 19 human speechreaders only recognized 32% of the words. (1) That […]
Fire Safety for People with Hearing Loss
by 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 […]
Easy Way to Keep Stereo and Mono Jacks Straight
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady wrote: I know a stereo plug has two rings, and a mono plug only one. That is easy to see, but, how do you know whether the device you are plugging into has a stereo or mono jack? One manufacturer of assistive devices says in their instructions, “do not […]
Classroom Coping Strategies for Hard of Hearing Teachers
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A new teacher with a profound hearing loss wrote: I am a hearing impaired student teacher. I have a profound hearing loss with a speech recognition of 12 percent. I was wondering if you could assist me with some strategies for teaching normal hearing students in a Middle School environment. I […]
Don’t Make the #$%& Bell Ring!
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. My friend Michele has a hearing loss. She explained: I was in Home Depot yesterday morning. While waiting for the nice man who offered to cut a threaded rod for me, I was standing near the entrance of the tool rental area. Evidently there is a motion sensor that triggers a […]
Improving Your Speechreading Skills
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A man asked: Is there anywhere on the web, or a resource that you could direct me to, where I can learn to improve my lip reading skills? The real secret to becoming better at speechreading (lip reading is the older term) is to always “stare” at the person […]
Automatic T-coils and Cell Phones—A Workaround
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady explained: If someone has an automatic t-coil on their hearing aid, they will have problems hearing on their cell phones if they want to do so in t-coil mode. They will need a magnet glued to the phone’s earpiece in order to activate the automatic t-coil. I don’t have […]
An Effective Coping Strategy at the Doctor’s Office—Being Proactive Paid Off for Mary
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. If you have a severe hearing loss, hearing your name being called in a busy doctor’s office is stressful to say the least, and can be an exercise in futility when you keep being “missed” because you never heard your name called. The good news is that it doesn’t have to […]
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