Hearing Health Foundation

Sue says: "I was working and studying and getting out and about a lot and then my life as I knew it sort of stopped." Then a cochlear implant changed her life.

Have you or a loved one experienced changes in hearing during pregnancy?

A designer with hearing loss showed his teammates what it's like to rely on video calls with captions all day long. it was emotionally and mentally draining for everyone, in part because of the constraints and demands placed on participants by the speech-to-text tools available to us today.

We thank Shari Eberts for sharing her recommendations for a hospital kit for people with hearing loss. Find them in the new issue of Hearing Health magazine. https://view.publitas.com//hearing-health-fall-/page/14-15

Did you miss our first Hearing Health Hour webinar on Age-Related Hearing Loss last week? You can watch it at www.hhf.org/webinar. Below "Recorded Webinars," you will find an access code to the captioned recording along with the transcript.

Is voting sufficiently accessible for people with hearing loss where you live?

The trial will also explore whether the correction of hearing loss with hearing aids results in less brain volume loss and improved cerebral metabolism, compared to those with uncorrected hearing loss.

When Dean was hospitalized with COVID-19 in April, the experience was even more isolating for him than it is for many other patients. He is deaf, and it was hard for him to understand the medical staff. https://www.wgbh.org//for-people-who-are-deaf-or-hard-of-h

Barbara shares her hearing loss journey: "In 1982 I served as the first juror with a hearing loss in Maryland. It felt wonderful to fulfill my civic duty, especially since 30 others with hearing loss had been denied the opportunity."

Zoe finally gave hearing aids a try and she didn't regret it.

As a partner in the Cochlear Americas #Hearing2020 campaign, we're reminding everyone that hearing, like vision, has a 20/20 standard and routine tests are vital to our health.

These regenerative methods have the potential of being used for patients who have experienced hearing loss due to age or environmental factors like exposure to loud noise.

We can all learn from this.