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Volume 3
Drinks, Dementia & Hearing loss
In this issue’s installment, Gael Hannan tells us why you might want to drop by your local watering hole to help protect your hearing.
Don’t Make Us Beg
Gael Hannan points out that consumer advocates want to work with the hearing health industry to bring about change but Canadians with hearing loss are waiting. Please, don’t make them beg.
How Do We Explain Ourselves?
Gael Hannan explains how people with hearing loss occupy an awkward place in this world that spins on the sounds of people, nature, and machines that most other people can hear and understand.
When Hearing Changes, So Does Life
Gael explores her feelings about being recommended for a cochlear implant.
Book Review
Let me start with a disclaimer: this review is incredibly biased. I am a huge fan of Gael and of the generous way that she shares the personal side of living with a hearing loss. I first witnessed this at the Canadian Hearing Society in Toronto, where Gael performed her one-woman show for my “Hearing…
Volume 2
What You SHOULD Say to People Who Have Hearing Loss
Advocates are often posting articles about what NOT to say to deaf people. In this instalment of “The Way I Hear It,” Gael Hannan tells us what we SHOULD say.
The World’s Shortest Audiology Course (Delivered by a Client)
Gael Hannan taps into her inner professor and gives us “The World’s Shortest Audiology Course.”
What a HoH Needs to Know (Words to Explain Hearing Loss)
Gael Hannan wonders if people with hearing loss have unrealistic expectations with friends and love ones when it comes to remembering their communication challenges.
Love Poem to Hearing Aids
Gael Hannan debunks an urban myth that people who use hearing aids dislike them with her wonderful Love Poem to Hearing Aids.