Caption Us! A Message to Hearing care Professionals

My hearing advocacy colleague Shari Eberts and I were excited, as always, to attend a conference of hearing care professionals (HCPs), where we were scheduled to present the patient’s perspective.
We were dismayed, at the first presentation of the conference, to find that the captioning access we depend on for speech comprehension was not available. While we had not expected that the room would be hearing-looped, which is the standard in consumer hearing loss meetings and conferences, captioning access is integral to the communication success of people with hearing loss.