Trouble Understanding Speech? Active Listening Skills Can Help

By Monique Hammond | September 16, 2020
Active listening speech

For those with hearing loss the struggle to understand speech, especially in background sound is a huge obstacle to communication. People tend to describe what they hear as gibberish. It turns out that the situation can be improved upon by getting hearing help and by becoming better, active listeners. Listening: the secret sauce for good…

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Now is the Right Time to Advocate for Hearing Loops

By Monique Hammond | September 3, 2020
Hearing Loop Switch Hearing Aid to T Coil

Communications challenges continue The COVID-19 threat is not going away anytime soon. Those with hearing loss have experienced added limitations to communication during these times of social distancing, self-quarantine, masked outings and conversations. Being talked to through plastic or glass partitions further worsens the muffling of sounds. Speechreading (lipreading) has become impossible, which deepens the…

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