January 12, 2015

My Strategies for Coping With Single-Sided Hearing Loss

When I started losing my hearing at the age of thirty, I was really embarrassed about it and I didn’t want people to know I was going deaf. It felt […]
July 10, 2014
interview with a deaf audiologist

Your Audiologist — A Life-Long Relationship

It was another “normal day” at the office. My schedule was full of hearing evaluations, hearing aid fittings, and follow-up appointments. No boring routine, as each client was unique in […]
June 16, 2014

What Can Hearing Impaired People Do to End Stigmas Against Mental Illness?

Have you strained so hard to hear that you collapse from fatigue, too exhausted move anything except your eyelids? Has conversation swirled into a vortex, put you in its eye […]
May 29, 2014

Mental Health and Hearing Loss

How does the stigma of mental illness affect hearing impaired people? Mental health problems, as well as being their own illness, can be a symptom of physical ailments. According to […]