July 1, 2015
Published by Howard Samuels at July 1, 2015

Hearing After Hearing Aids

How did you lose your hearing? For some, that question may be considered intrusive and personal. But for most cochlear implant users, it is a great way to start a […]
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June 26, 2015
Published by Stephanie Booth at June 26, 2015

Helen Keller Deaf-Blind Awareness Week

Tomorrow marks the 135th anniversary of Helen Keller‘s birth. I remember being fascinated by Helen’s story as a young child, full of wonder at how she managed to learn to […]
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May 11, 2015
Published by Christina Lisk at May 11, 2015

Breaking the Surgery Mindset

For the past ten years, I believed I knew everything there was to know about making difficult decisions. In my mind’s eye, the hardest decision I had ever made was […]
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May 4, 2015
Published by Stu Nunnery at May 4, 2015

More Phone Etiquette for the Hearing Challenged and Those that Call Them

Everyone with a hearing challenge has a phone story. I knew from my very first hearing aid that the phone was going to be a problem. The technology at the […]
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April 9, 2015
Published by Christina Lisk at April 9, 2015

The Name I Call Myself

Picking a term to describe our hearing is fraught with implications. The idea behind “hearing impaired” is that we are lesser human beings and must be fixed to function. Those […]
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March 13, 2015
Published by Stu Nunnery at March 13, 2015

Talk to Me: Hearing is Not Listening

I’m a talker. Have been since my first words, or so the legend goes. Even as I became part of the “hearing lost” I didn’t stop talking. According to my […]
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March 4, 2015
Published by Ora Buerkli at March 4, 2015

Making a Difference in Haiti

Getting involved in charity work raises a lot of questions on what the right way to do things is. I have the privilege of being a member of the Hear […]
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February 16, 2015
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Published by Stu Nunnery at February 16, 2015

Talk To Me: Getting Along

For much of the past 37 years in which I’ve been, let’s say, “engaged in hearing loss,” I’ve played the good soldier. I reject labels like “suffering from,” and try […]
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December 19, 2014
Published by Christina Lisk at December 19, 2014

The Day I Heard Santa Claus

It was 6 A.M. on Christmas morning. My brother, Doug, and I had woken up much earlier, but our parents said, “Don’t wake us up before six.” Each minute seemed […]
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December 16, 2014
Published by Stephanie Booth at December 16, 2014

About Being Confused

Over the last couple of months, I’ve been trying out a variety of hearing aids as part of my newly-found “guinea pig” position at Phonak. As a geek, I love […]
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November 24, 2014
Published by Stephane Deschamps at November 24, 2014

But Your Hearing is Perfect

We’ve all talked on this blog about how different the perception is between viewing aids (better known as glasses) and hearing aids (better known as “my ears” by people wearing […]
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November 21, 2014
Published by Christina Lisk at November 21, 2014

Hearing Things and Horror Movies

When I was thirteen years old, I loved horror movies. The scarier, the better. Bring on the bloodbath, and the ghosts and the ghouls. The louder you could scream, the […]
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October 9, 2014
Published by Vincent Meyer at October 9, 2014

Imagining the Future of Audiology and Fitting

  Writing software is great! You get to tell a computer, a machine, anything that holds some kind of electronic intelligence, what it should do. Isn’t that great and liberating?… […]
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September 30, 2014
Published by Christina Lisk at September 30, 2014

Now and Then: 10 Years with an Eardrum

If you had asked me how I envisioned my life on August 24th, 2004, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you. Heck, I wouldn’t have been able to say […]
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September 19, 2014
Published by Steve Outing at September 19, 2014

Which Will it Be? Dementia, or Hearing Better Than a Normal-Hearing Person

In my work, I keep track of technology developments across a variety of fields to try to better anticipate what the future might be like (especially for media and news). […]
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September 6, 2014
Published by Christina Lisk at September 6, 2014

Children of a Lesser God, Children of a Different Choice

“Do you think that we could find a place that we can meet, not in silence and not in sound?” James Leeds (William Hurt), a speech teacher, presents this question […]
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July 29, 2014
Published by Angie Aspinall at July 29, 2014

Silence Is Golden… Sometimes

The times I feel ‘least deaf’ are actually the times when I am most deaf. Allow me to explain… When my partner’s at home, I tend to use my hearing […]
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March 3, 2014
Published by Christina Lisk at March 3, 2014

But You Look So Normal

It’s easy to pretend that I am just like everybody else until someone blurts out a subtle, but painful statement. “But you look so normal!” Those words were uttered to […]
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