Last week I wrote a piece on what all we really want, as human beings, and how hearing loss takes away the ability to connect with others. Once you’re armed with your hearing aids, your journey isn’t over. And it could be a tough one, if you don’t know where to start. To help you get you started, here are 7 key …
What do we actually lose, with hearing loss?
As human beings, what do we all want? We all want to connect, and by connecting, we feel included. We feel like we belong. It’s a primordial thing, to connect. It’s what we’ve always done, as human beings. Hearing loss is an attack to our ability to connect. It makes this instinctive behaviour impossible for us. And when we finally …
The Challenges Of Working Out With Hearing Aids
In my Hear Better in Six Weeks course we have a closed Facebook group where my students and myself share our progress in mastering our life with hearing loss. What my students like about it is that by reading other people’s challenges they feel like they’re not alone, and get the inspiration they need to believe they can live well …
Can I wear my hearing aids at the pool? (Part 2)
EDIT: Very good comment on safety from one of my readers May Wood. I’d add a comment on safety for those of us who have severe/profound loss and won’t make out a word of what is said/shouted without our aids in the event of an alarm or need to evacuate the pool – do inform the lifeguards so that, in an …
Can I wear my hearing aids at the pool? (Part 1)
This week in the Hearing Loss Community group on Facebook, a question was asked, and Peggy, one of my students, brought it to my attention. It seemed to interest a lot of people, so I decided to write a blog post about it, hoping that what I learned can help other hearing-aid users. Here’s the question: I wish my hearing aids were …
Interview with Deaf Entrepreneur Tina Lannin: Create Your Own World
An Interview with Tina Lannin, founder of 121 Captions. I recently interviewed Tina Lannin, founder of 121 Captions, a UK-based agency that brings speech-to-text and remote captions to deaf people across the world. Tina is not only a successful business woman but also a forensic lip reader, an important role played by expert witnesses in the justice system. I was …
How Hearing Loss Has Made Me Stronger…and more
Earlier this month, I was featured on a podcast called Life Athletics, hosted by my friend and fellow Bali resident Nik Wood. We talked about all kinds of topics related to my hearing loss – communication struggles, my relationship, what it was like to put in hearing aids for the first time at age 20. But most importantly, my conversation …
BBC Video: How Not To Teach Your Girlfriend About Hearing Loss
A couple of weeks ago I was in London telling a story about hearing loss on television. And that video is now live! Myself and other five brave people with all sorts of disabilities walked up on stage and for 10 minutes told a story on how our disability affected our relationships. All these stories had something in common: laughter …
What Jobs Can You Do With Hearing Loss?
HINT: You can do anything you want to. The other day Srinivas—one of my readers—asked me a question: “I know you’ve talked with lot of people with hearing loss. What kind of jobs do they do? I am asking because I sometimes feel exhausted working in a company, and I thought freelancing might be a good fit for me.” For …
[Video] How To Measure Echo In A Room
In the previous video of this series I showed you 3 simple tricks you can use to reduce echo in a room. In this video I’m going to show you how to measure the echo in a room. Why? Because it’s useful to put a number on the level of echo you can tolerate. That’s gonna help you adjust the …
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