How the type of hearing loss you have influences the quality of your speech and why people with extreme reverse slope losses have normal speech.
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Hyperacusis and Other Sound Sensitivities—Here’s the Scoop
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. © November, 2020 Being hypersensitive to sound is not particularly high on my list of enjoyable activities to put it mildly! When you are hypersensitive to sounds, you discover to your consternation that certain sounds, many sounds or all sounds are so loud that they make you wince, jump, […]
Hypoacusis and Other Words Ending in -acusis
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. January 12, 2017 Doctors, audiologists and other medical professionals use medical jargon that can snow under the average person. When it comes to our ears and our hearing, they may diagnosis us with terms like paracusis, or dysacusis or hypoacusis and we don’t have a clue what they have […]
The PockeTalker 2.0—Love at First Sound
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. August 22, 2016 Williams Sound has done it again. They have improved the venerable PockeTalker that so many hard of hearing people have used and loved over the years. The result is the new PockeTalker 2.0. What’s not to love? I gave the PockeTalker 2.0 a real workout during the […]
Cookie-Bite Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. April 11, 2016 A young lady wrote, I am hard of hearing and have been diagnosed with what is called a “cookie-bite” hearing loss. This means I cannot hear certain sounds or ranges of sounds but I can hear other sounds just fine. I have accommodated my hearing loss […]
Try the CaptionCall Sleek Captioned Phone
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. If you have trouble hearing on the phone, there are two basic technologies that can help you. One is to amplify speech so it is loud enough for you to hear it. The other is to convert the speech to text so you can read it. And if you want […]