Category: Coping
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CapTel Captioned Telephone Service Finally Gets A Hearing In Massachusetts
Since I last wrote about CapTel captioned telephone service, a dozen additional states have started offering this vital lifeline for hard-of-hearing consumers. To my chagrin, my home state of Massachusetts now is one of only six states in the union that have not approved it.
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Joining The Hearing Mainstream, Or, How I Got My Mojo Back (Hearing Mojo, That Is)
It’s been a long while since I last posted. That’s because I have spent the last six months ramping my marketing and communications consulting business, Aquarius Advisers, to the next level.
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USA Today: How Starkey Founder Bill Austin Does Well By Doing Good
USA Today has published a wonderful profile on Bill Austin, Founder and CEO of the biggest hearing-aid manufacturer in the U.S., Starkey Laboratories.
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Check Out 'The Mobile Phone Challenge' At Healthy Hearing
Dr. Paul Dybala, who runs two excellent web sites for hard-of-hearing consumers and hearing health professionals — Healthy Hearing and Audiology Online — asked me to contribute an article to Healthy Hearing on my experiences shopping for mobile phones that would work with my powerful hearing aids.
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Let's Boycott Super Bowl Advertisers Who Don't Supply Captions
What do BlockBuster, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Expedia.com have in common? Their Super Bowl ads this year didn’t have captions. They must not want our business.
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Apple Should Do More To Help Prevent Hearing Loss Among iPod Users
Dr. Brent Edwards, head of the Starkey Hearing Research Center, says in his Innovation Science blog that “Apple’s response provides so little guidance on how to set the limit that it is near useless to concerned parents of children who use iPods or to concerned iPod listeners.”
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Hyper-Vigilance Is The Price Of Independence For Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing People
You need only look as far as the recent headlines about Miss Deaf Texas, killed by a train as she was distracted by text messaging while crossing some railroad tracks, to see why I regard hyper-vigilance as the price of my independence as a hard-of-hearing person.
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Likable "Incredible Hulk" Lou Ferrigno Is A Real-Life Inspiration For Hard-Of-Hearing People
“Incredible Hulk” Lou Ferrigno is a real-life inspiration for hard-of-hearing people.
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Invisible CIC Hearing Aids, High-Fashion Italian Designer Shoes, And Me
Buying a pair of hearing aids can be like shopping for a new pair of expensive designer shoes: you’ve got to get exactly the right fit; they have to be sturdy and comfortable enough to wear all day; but you want them to look really good as well.
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A Magician's Secret Revealed: The Amazing Auditory Sleight-Of-Hand Of Speech Reading
Last night at dinner with our friends Linda and Turner, I had an insight into how the magic of speech reading works.