Category: Coping
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Congressman Markey Demands Internet-Video Captions For Hard-Of-Hearing Web Surfers
Democratic US Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts is backing a bill that would require major producers of web videos to provide captioning, a piece of legislation that provides many other benefits for people with hearing, vision and other disabilities.
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Don't Blend Your Hearing Aids, Recycle Them Through The Lions Club
A reader made the helpful suggestion to donate them to someone who needs them. The Lions Club will do it for you.
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Why Don't Hearing-Aid Companies Caption Their YouTube Videos?
My blogger friend Dr. Tom Goyne has several interesting posts with links to videos that Phonak, Widex, Oticon and other major hearing-aid companies are putting on the web. Great, but….Why aren’t any of the hearing-aid manufacturers’ videos captioned?!??!
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What Do I Have In Common With New York State Governor David Paterson?
David Paterson, the new governor of New York State, is demonstrating how and why he is able to do one of the world’s most demanding jobs even though he is blind.
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Can "Musicophilia" by Oliver Sacks Explain Why I'm Hearing Better?
I just picked up Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks, and it is a revelation for anyone with hearing loss and distortion of sounds that comes with it.
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More Good News From WGBH NCAM: Easy Captions For Adobe Flash Videos
WGBH NCAM recently introduced a software utility that makes it easy to create captioned Adobe Flash videos.
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AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! Collaborate On Web Video Captioning
AOL, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to collaborate with National Center for Accessible Media to establish and manage a new International Captioning Forum to set standards for captioning on any kind of video presented on the Web.
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Buy Oticon Delta 'Think Pink' Hearing Aids And Fight Breast Cancer
Oticon is putting its money where its mouth is with donations to the American Cancer Society tied to purchases of its Delta hearing aids during Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October.
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Note To Steve Jobs: Why Isn't The Apple iPhone Hearing-Aid Compatible?
I can’t believe Apple failed to make its iPhone compatible with either hearing aids or cochlear implants.
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Neurotone Improves LACE Hearing Comprehension Training Program
Neurotone has introduced the third generation of its groundbreaking LACE product, a personal computer learning program that helps people with hearing loss dramatically improve their listening and comprehension skills.