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A long and often frustrating quest for the best fitting hearing aid leads to a Marvelous discovery.
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Ashely McGoey wasn’t always so confident living with hearing loss. When she was in elementary school, her classmates teased her. In high school, she wore her hair down and avoided listening to music in front of her peers, dreading the
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It took a while for Louise Bjerrum to appreciate the benefit she received from her hearing aid. Now, this Swedish physiotherapist takes full advantage.
Louise Bjerrum was born with a congenital hearing loss; she is deaf in her right ear. …
If Dr. John Rice had been asked in 1975, “Will the bionic ear ever be a reality?” he would have said – and did say later on – “Yes, but not in my professional lifetime.”
Fast forward decades, and not …
Dorthe Sørensen has been affected by hearing loss for the majority of her life.
“I have something called moderate hearing loss, which for me, means that I hear less on my left ear than I do on my right”, she …
Recently I made a decision to perform again. This may seem deceptively simple, yet it’s a challenge.
For 25 years I was an entertainer. I began as a lead guitarist in a band back in the 80s. We played professionally …
Eighteen years ago, the week of September 26 was Deaf Awareness Week. Coincidentally, I was also born during this week.
During this week and in the months leading up to this week my parents had been educated by news media …
With December drawing to a close, most of us find ourselves looking back over the year. We will look back at the good times and bad, the highs and lows, the losses, and of course, the victories.
For those of …
I’ve spent my whole life living with single-sided deafness.
It’s a frustrating part of ‘being me’ that I learned to live with. one day, not so long ago, a colleague asked me whether I’d heard of Phonak Cros B-R and proceeded …
With technology exploding at a rapid pace, it’s taken a while for accessibility to catch up.
The last several months, however, have seen positive changes in the right direction.
Presentation apps
Companies like Apple and Facebook have some kind of …
The thought of traveling with hearing loss can be more than a little daunting.
The thing about traveling is that it involves so many things which in essence are out of our hands. It is in a sense surrendering and …
The technology giant, Huawei, went above and beyond to make children’s reading times more accessible through their new StorySign app!
For young deaf children, access to language is one of the biggest challenges they face due to not being fully …
I was born deaf in my right ear. This was picked up at some point in my early years, but regardless nothing was done about my hearing loss.
One of the particularly irksome things about living with single-sided deafness; if …
Fires, car crashes, active crime – there are so many situations where one might need to call for help – and for people with hearing loss, communicating during these times can be difficult, making a dangerous situation into a more
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If you are deaf or hard of hearing, do you know the best ways to access captions?
Following on from my Captioning Awareness Week article, I figured this is a great chance to write an ultimate guide to access …
What is Captioning Awareness Week happening November 12-18th?
Captioning Awareness Week (CAW) is run by a British charity, StageText with a purpose to raise awareness of captioning and live subtitles, and reaching out to those who may not be aware …
“My hearing loss shouldn’t limit my life.”
These are the words of Linda Almqvist, a 41‑year‑old woman who works as a driving instructor at a traffic school in Halmstad, Sweden. Her life took a turn in the right direction when …
The founder of Toy Like Me, Rebecca Atkinson, was watching her children play with toys one day and realized that none of the toys were representing real people with disabilities.
Noticing there was a lack of positive representation of disabilities, …
For most people, making a booking and attending medical related appointments is a very simple procedure, however, this is not always the case for those with hearing loss.
There are a number of issues and challenges which can arise for …
