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The Hearing Loss Journey.

From fear and anger to hope and inspiration, navigating your feelings following a hearing loss diagnosis is nothing short of overwhelming.

The Connected and Caring Partner

Hearing loss can be a challenge. Simple conversations, phone calls, and the television become much more difficult to hear.

Hearing Aids vs Cochlear Implants

Finding a solution that works for your specific hearing loss needs is important. Here is what you need to know about hearing aids vs cochlear implants.

Finding a Career with Hearing Loss

Being deaf means doing things differently, but it doesn’t mean you can’t pursue something you love and find your career with hearing loss.

On being a deaf mom

As a first-time mom, it took a while to realize that I should be taking advantage of my slumbering husband’s hearing.

Teaching students with hearing loss

Teaching a students with hearing loss can be nothing short of wonderful. As a teacher there are many ways that you can help a child with hearing loss.

Measuring the Cost of Hearing Loss.

When Jagger Winkler lost his hearing to meningitis at 17 months, his parents knew they had to act fast. The inability to hear impedes a child’s ability to acquire spoken […]

Your hearing health care team

Meet the professionals that make up your hearing health care team.

The IEP & Other Classroom Support.

Help your deaf or hard-of-hearing child win in the classroom with an IEP strategy that calls for partnership and teacher education.

Colin’s Law

Collin is taking no prisoners in his pursuit of mandated insurance coverage for hearing aids.

Raising an Independent Child

A mother-daughter duo reflect on growing up—and raising—a child with hearing loss.

Why Raising Awareness about Hearing Loss is So Important

  There’s always talk in the hearing loss community about “raising awareness.” This basically means helping people who aren’t touched by hearing loss understand issues affecting people who are. Why […]

On Being a Teen with Hearing Loss

As soon as I got home my mom took me onto our back porch, where a bird was singing. I had never heard that noise before.

5 Hearing Devices You’ve Never Heard Of

We all know that technology is changing and improving at a rapid rate these days, hearing assistive technology included. But have you ever wondered just how much things have changed, […]

11 Hearing Aid Myths You Shouldn’t Believe

Dispel these outdated beliefs before you decide whether to get hearing aids.

The Evolution of Wireless

Wireless audio systems for children with hearing loss, have improved dramatically since the 1960s.

Teens Turn Up the Volume on Life with Hearing Loss #YOLO

Hearing loss might complicate the teen years, but it doesn’t have to stop you from fitting in and doing what you love.

The Childcare Challenge

When your child has hearing loss, the daunting task of selecting good care gets even more complicated.

The Big IDEA: Educational Support for Your Child.

Many classroom supports are available for a child with hearing loss. Knowing what they are might be the biggest obstacle.

“But I Don’t See You As Disabled!” The Flip Side of “But You Look so Normal!”

If someone finds out I’m hard of hearing, one common response is, “But you look so normal!” Since I first confronted that statement as a junior in college, I now […]