hearing loss Archives - Gael Hannan - The Way I Hear It https://www.gaelhannan.com/category/hearing-loss/ Hearing Loss Advocate, Writer, Speaker, Humorist Thu, 12 Oct 2017 23:15:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Say, How Am I Supposed to Understand You If… https://www.gaelhannan.com/say-supposed-understand/ Thu, 12 Oct 2017 23:13:59 +0000 https://www.gaelhannan.com/?p=412 We people with hearing loss are very fussy. Communication has to be just so, and if we don’t get it the way we want or need it, we can get grumpy. Especially if we’ve explained it a million times to someone before. We do go easier on strangers, but if they are challenged by our requests, our ... Read more

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]]> We people with hearing loss are very fussy. Communication has to be just so, and if we don’t get it the way we want or need it, we can get grumpy. Especially if we’ve explained it a million times to someone before. We do go easier on strangers, but if they are challenged by our requests, our good humor is a time-limited offer

So, let me put it very clearly, in every-day language, what good communication looks like for people – who through no fault of our own – have hearing loss.

 

How the heck am I supposed to hear and understand you, if you do the following?

 

  1. You don’t face me while talking to me. It’s that simple: face me and talk, or face away and don’t talk. If we can see each other’s eyeballs, we can chat. If I’m looking at the back of your bedhead, you better not be saying words.

 

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]]> The Ecstasy of Seeing the Words https://www.gaelhannan.com/ecstasy-of-seeing-the-words/ Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:30:09 +0000 http://localhost/gaelhannan/?p=71 It’s hard to describe.  It’s hard to adequately describe how necessary captioning is to people with hearing loss.  If we don’t have it when we need it – when we watch TV, go to the movies, attend a lecture –  it’s not like eating cake without the icing—it’s like having no food at all! Click here ... Read more

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]]> It’s hard to describe.  It’s hard to adequately describe how necessary captioning is to people with hearing loss.  If we don’t have it when we need it – when we watch TV, go to the movies, attend a lecture –  it’s not like eating cake without the icing—it’s like having no food at all!

Click here for the COMPLETE blog on HearingHealthMatters.org.

 

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