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Volume 11
When the Client Decides to Change Their Hearing Health Care Professional
I am a big fan of hearing care professionals as a group and individually. Regardless of their designation, I respect and applaud the audiologists and hearing instrument specialists who have chosen the life of a clinician, researcher, But sometimes, the person with hearing loss (PWHL) changes their HCP.
What Your Clients Hate to Hear!
Living with hearing loss is like drinking from a bottomless bowl of emotional soup. It’s a constant loop of mis-hears, repeats, and corrections, keeping our emotions in play. And we don’t do one emotion at a time! Hearing loss is more complicated than that; emotions stay close to the surface, ready to erupt.
Help Your Clients Set Better Hearing Loss Goals
We’re well into a new year now, but it’s not too late to make resolutions, specifically goals for better hearing and communication. People with hearing loss have the power to reshape the flow of our daily communication lives.
Don’t You “Never Mind” Me!
The most hurtful words a person with hearing loss (PWHL) can be told when asking for something to be repeated:
“Never mind.” “Don’t worry about it.” “Oh, nothing.” “It wasn’t important.”
Volume 10
“Have You Got Your Ears In?!”
All people with hearing loss have experienced the two most painful words in the hearing loss dictionary—never mind. But another question stings every hearing aid or cochlear implant user: “Have you got your ears (or, things) in?”
Volume 9
Why Your Clients Need To Be More Strategic
A hearing aid is not the complete, standalone resource for every communication situation. Instead, the device is a component of your client’s personal hearing loss strategy for better communication.
Volume 8
Why Asking Someone to Repeat Themselves is OK
It’s OK to ask for repeats – without apology and without shame. It’s part of our hearing loss toolkit. People in our lives want to communicate with us, and communication is a two-way street.
Volume 6
My Uneasy Truce with Tinnitus
While there are many causes of tinnitus and scientists aren’t quite sure how it works, and therefore can’t give us a cure, there are ways to “wrestle” it to a truce.
Volume 3
Audiology and Acceptance
While there may be many things in life worth complaining about, Peter Stelmacovich explains why his hearing loss isn’t one of them.
Volume 2
Names…My Greatest Nightmare
Peter give us some insight into a particular issue faced by people with hearing loss in his latest column entry called, “Names…My Greatest Nightmare.”