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Everything you need to know about the Hearing Loss Association of America’s 2009 convention is now available online. Held this year in Nashville, Tennessee from June 18th to June 21st at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, this is an exciting annual event for people with hearing loss and their families. This year’s keynote speaker is Vinton Cerf, PhD., also known as the father of the Internet. HLAA offers a good mix of daily workshops, social events, a research symposium and trade show exhibits with the latest products available for deaf and hard of hearing people. The educational tracks for this years workshops are:
Full details on registration rates, accommodations, the daily schedule and more are available online here.
Here are some quick tips for people considering getting a cochlear implant.
◊ Be sure to do careful research about cochlear implants, the surgery and following up with auditory rehabilitation.
◊ Your expectations for what you want …
CAPTIONED TELEPHONE SERVICE OVER THE WEB
AN INNOVATIVE SERVICE FOR INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING HEARING LOSS
Sprint recently launched a captioned telephone service that helps an estimated 28 million Americans with hearing loss to communicate comfortably on the telephone. …
Socialization of deaf and hard of hearing children is very important to their personal growth and development. When kids with hearing loss attend special education programs with peers who have hearing loss, they’re surrounded by …
Today is the first day of spring and while I hear the birds chirping outside my window, it’s snowing here in New York. Even though the sky is dark, grey and dismal looking, I have …
After more than a week of waiting, I finally have great news to share! Yesterday, the HearingExchange site was moved to a new server. What this means is that it should load more quickly on …
When children and adults begin using hearing aids and cochlear implants, they are often encouraged to commit to auditory rehabilitation and therapy. This will train their ears and strengthen their ability to use the hearing …
I’m always thinking of ways to help assist deaf and hard of hearing people as well as families dealing with hearing loss. Often, there are very few in our live communities who understand what we’re …
This morning, my 11 year old son, who has normal hearing, had a few minutes to kill before his school bus came. We were talking as I sat in front of my computer, contemplating my …
1. When I was a little kid, I used to look at people’s ears and wonder how they could hear without anything in them.
2. As a teen, I called my hearing aids “boyfriend alerts” because …
As Kermit the frog on Sesame Street used to sing, “It isn’t easy being green…” Even with all the talk about hearing aid tax credits, insurance coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants and newborn …
I’m Paula Rosenthal and I publish HearingExchange to help adults and families dealing with hearing loss. HearingExchange was created in 2000 while my daughter was enrolled at The Moog Center for Deaf Education in St. Louis. As a woman with a nearly life-long, progressive hearing loss and the parent of a deaf teen, I use my personal experiences along with my research expertise, honed in law school, to provide an informative and supportive community. Here, you will find links to many resources, gain much insight about hearing loss and receive timely, accurate answers to questions you have about deafness, raising children with hearing loss, cochlear implants and much more. Find out more about me by clicking here.