by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady explained: When my husband and I are in the car and my daughter is in the back seat, I cannot make out what she is saying. I have lost most of my hearing in the conversational range and also in the high frequencies. Do you have any suggestions how […]
Instructing/Disciplining a Hard of Hearing Child
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A mother explained: We have a 5-year-old daughter who is hard of hearing, and wears hearing aids in both ears. She received speech therapy and hearing support at her pre-school as well. Her speech is delayed from not being able to hear for so long. We’re having a hard time disciplining […]
Bluffing—Here’s the Key to Overcoming It
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady explained: I recently received your book “Help! I’m Losing My Hearing—What Do I Do Now?” My hearing loss has been a gradual loss—but now it is more pronounced. As your book points out, I am having difficulty telling people I am hard of hearing. I bluff all the time. […]
How Do I Best Cope with My Spouse Who Won’t Do Anything About His Hearing Loss?
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A frustrated wife asked: Can you please offer suggestions on how to live peacefully with a hearing impaired spouse who refuses hearing aids and other assistance? My husband recognizes he has a “mild to moderate” hearing loss however, he does not admit to its severity, or how it affects his day […]
Damping Reverberation to Improve Hearing
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady explained: Our condo has high ceilings and a wood and tile floor. The reverberation makes it really difficult to hear. Do you have any ideas for improving this situation? Reverberation is caused by all the hard surfaces in your condo. The obvious solution to dampen such reverberations is to […]
Hearing Discussions in the College Classroom
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A college student asked: What is the best method to hear the comments going back and forth between the professor and the students in a college class? Do you know of a digital recorder that can be paired with an audio transmitter/receiver loop system? Would this work for listening later? It’s […]
Tips for Helping Your Hard of Hearing Child in the Classroom
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. My Dr for a healthy Australia has a good article entitled Hearing Impairment and Schoolchildren. If you have a child in school, it is well worth the read, especially the section “Support Strategies”. Print it out and discuss it with each of your child’s teachers. Give them a copy of it […]
Hearing the TV and People Talking at the Same Time—Another Perspective
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. In response to last month’s article “Room Loops—Hearing the TV and People Talking at the Same Time“, a man wrote: I am a huge fan of my home loop amplifier and thought I’d contribute my experience because what you said about listening to another person while watching TV. I agree […]
Help Your Children Accept Their Hearing Losses—Get Them Dolls That Wear Hearing Aids Just Like They Do
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, […]
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 […]
Where’s That Sound Coming From?
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. One lady asked: Do you ever hear something and can’t figure out immediately where the sound is coming from? Another lady replied: For me, that happens all the time. I have much less hearing in my right ear than in my left. At work when someone calls my name and I […]
Use the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet—It’s an Effective Coping Strategy
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. I have just written a new article called “The International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet—A Boon to Hard of Hearing People (If You Know and Use It)”. This article begins, “Among most hard of hearing people, the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet (also called the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, but sometimes erroneously referred to as […]
The Savvy Consumer’s Guide to Hearing Loss
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. The Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing has just released “The Savvy Consumer’s Guide to Hearing Loss.” This excellent 193 page book, by Karen Rockow, Ph. D,. herself hard of hearing, and now with a cochlear implant, gives a lot of practical coping strategies for people new to […]
Hearing Loss and Personal Space
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A hard of hearing lady wrote: I have always been a person that has to have my “space” and feel personally violated if people stand too close (any closer than arm’s distance). I will literally get very uncomfortable, start sweating, panicky, if it is not a situation that I can remedy […]
Hearing In Noise—What’s the Solution?
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A mother wrote: My beautiful daughter was born with impaired hearing, and the doctors said she would lose her hearing as she got older. She is now in her forties. With her hearing aid, she hears noises, but cannot understand speech because of the background noise she picks up. Is there […]
Speechreading Difficulties
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady wrote: My hearing has decreased considerably these past few years. I ordered your “Seeing and Hearing Speech” CD recently to help me understand conversations better. I have been trying to read peoples’ lips for some time now and the lessons are helping, although I am still on […]
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