David Myers’ Articles: Advocating for Hearing Aid Compatible Assistive Listening

David Myers quote "As a person with hearing loss, I often find lectures, plays, and PA system announcements indecipherable. But who else notices? Unlike someone visibly left outside because of wheelchair inaccessibility — which would leave others appalled — inaccessibility due to hearing loss is invisible and thus often unremedied."

Over 20 years of advocacy for easy hearing aid connection, hearing loop advantages for consumers, and hearing accessibility.

2020-present

The Marvel of Hearing—and the Blessings, and Mishaps, of Not-Hearing. (August 12, 2025). Macmillan Learning blog (webpage)

Hearing Loop Training for Churches (webinar). (January 2023). Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens and Dr. David Myers are experts in how churches can support people living with hearing loss through hearing-loop technology. Christian Reformed Church.

Church service explanation. (January 29, 2023). Dr. David Myers shared his experience with hearing loops and explains why hearing loops are magic at a recent service at his church. Start: the 1-hour, 2-minute mark. (1:02)
 

Hearing the Word. (December 22, 2022). Christian Reformed Church/Reformed Church in America Disability Network. (webpage) 

2015-2019

Getting people with hearing loss in the loop. (2019). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14 (1), 29–33. (webpage)

David G. Myers on hearing loss in worship: An invisible disability. (September 2016). Interview with Joan Huyser-Honig, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. (webpage)

It starts with one person (Winter 2016). Hearing Health, pp. 28–29. (webpage) 

Making Unity churches hearing accessible. (November 4, 2015). Unity Leaders Journal. (webpage)

A technological godsend to counter hearing loss. (August 28, 2015). The Wall Street Journal, p. 11. (webpage)

2010-2014

Telecoils and wireless assistive listening. (2014). In R. Carmen (Ed.), A consumer handbook on hearing loss & hearing aids, 4th edition. Sedona, AZ: Auricle Ink Publishers, pp. 197–206. (pdf)

Hearing the Word. (August 2014). Technologies for Worship, pp. 26–29. (pdf)

Imagining a future where hearing loops double the value of hearing instruments. (July 3, 2013). Hearing Health & Technology Matters. (webpage) 

Enabling ears to hear: The church leads. (May/June 2013). Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought, p. 4. (webpage)

Hearing screenings, hearing aids, hearing loops. (April 8, 2013). Hearing Health Foundation.

Hearing aids can serve a second purpose—as wireless speakers. (June 6, 2013). Scientific American blog. (webpage)

The hearing loop movement is rapidly accelerating. (May 7, 2012). AudiologyOnline (pdf)

The hearing loop movement is accelerating. (November/December 2011). Advance for Hearing Practice Management, p. 34. (pdf)

Harnessing the human factor in hearing assistance. (October 2011). Association for Psychological Science Observer, pp. 11–12. (pdf)

Together we say, let’s loop America! (June 28, 2011). Hearing Health and Technology Matters. (webpage)

Get in the hearing loop (March/April 2011). Letter to the Editor, Audiology Today, p. 14. (pdf)

By enabling hearing, churches lead. (Spring 2011). DisabilityConcerns (published by the Christian Reformed Church), pp. 3–4. (pdf)

In the loop. Helping the growing population with hearing loss. (November, 2010). Sound & Communications, pp. 76–81. (pdf)

They who have ears to hear, let them hear (Summer 2010). Christian Reformed Church, Disability Concerns.

Let’s loop America’s worship centers. (May 2010). Technologies for Worship, pp. 53–55. (pdf)

Progress toward the looping of America—and doubled hearing aid functionality. (February 2010). Hearing Review, pp. 10–17. (pdf)

2005-2009

Telecoils and wireless assistive listening. (2009). In R. Carmen (Ed.), A Consumer Handbook on Hearing Loss & Hearing Aids, 3rd Edition. Sedona, AZ: Auricle Ink Publishers. (pdf)

Double hearing aid functionality and satisfaction. (November/December 2008). Advance for Audiologists.

Experts discuss telecoils and the future of hearing aid-compatible assistive devices. (October 2008). Hearing Journal, pp. 40–47. (pdf)

We’ve looped West Michigan. Could we loop America? (September 2008). Hearing Loss, pp. 18–21. (pdf)

With loops, the future is now. (February 2008). Letter to the editor. The Hearing Journal, 61, 2, p. 42. (pdf)

Assistive listening. In What Are You Optimistic About? John Brockman (ed.). Harper (2007), pp. 316–317. (pdf)

UK and USA: Worlds apart for people with hearing loss. (Summer 2007). Hearing Health, pp. 26–30. (pdf)

In a looped America, hearing aids would be twice as valuable. (May 2006). Hearing Journal, pp. 17–23. (webpage)

Heard round the world! Hearing aid compatibility and wireless assistive devices (with Norman Lederman). (May 2006). Sound and Communications, pp. 74–81. (pdf)

New media technology for people with hearing Loss: “Looping” communities so all might hear. (2005). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Division of Media Psychology Newsletter (The Amplifier). (pdf)

Good news for people with hearing loss. (November/December 2005). Saturday Evening Post. (pdf)

Heard around the world! Hearing aid compatibility and wireless assistive devices. (January 2005). Hearing Review, pp. 22–25, 86. (webpage)

2000-2004

Essay for Richard Carmen’s Consumer Handbook on Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids, 2nd edition. (2004). Phoenix: Auricle Ink Publishers.

Hearing the word: The coming world of hearing aid compatible assistive listening in congregations. (2003). Website publication of the National Organization on Disability.

Looped communities. (May/June 2003). Advance for Audiologists, pp. 22–23.

Let them hear. Why not get your church looped? (June 2003). Reformed Worship, p. 45. (webpage)

The coming world of hearing aid compatible assistive listening. (November/December 2003). Hearing Loss, pp. 22–26. (pdf)

Let’s Loop America. (January/February 2003). Audiology Today, p. 11. (pdf)

How to double the usefulness of hearing aids. (December 2002). Communication Matters (for Michigan Rehabilitation Services), vol 3, issue 3. (pdf)

The coming “audio coil” revolution. (September 2002). The Hearing Review, pp. 28–31. (webpage)

Why don’t more people wear hearing aids? (July/August 2002). Advance for Audiologists, pp. 36–40. (pdf)

Getting hard of hearing people “in the loop.” (Summer 2002). Mi-SHHH-iganian (Michigan Self Help for Hard of Hearing People), pp. 1, 2. (pdf)

Do you hear what I hear? (February 2002). Church Herald. (pdf)

Interpreting responses. (Winter 2001/2002). Hearing Health, pp. 20–24. (pdf)

Living with hearing loss. (November 2000). Saturday Evening Post, p. 64. (pdf)