Overview-Hearing Loss
Wish to learn more about hearing loss and hearing aids? Check out these sections:
Hearing Aids
- TEDx Oshkosh “What you don’t know about hearing aids” (17 minutes)
- Hearing Aid and Hearing Loss Information
- Hearing Aids – “Worldwide Access” (telecoils and Auracast hardware connectors)
- Hearing Aid Limitations
Other Topics of Interest
- Hearing Loss Statistics
- Sound Advice: Peer-Led Training
- Hearing the difference (1-minute video simulations, what assistive listening sounds like). Whether you use hearing aids or not, you can use assistive listening systems. Assistive listening systems are required under the ADA law.
…forgive me when you see me draw back when I would gladly mingle with you, my misfortune is doubly painful because it must lead to my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreations in society of my fellows, refined intercourse, mutual exchange of thought, only just as little as the greatest needs command may I mix with society. I must live like an exile. If I approach near to people a hot terror seizes upon me, a fear that I may be subjected to the danger of letting my condition be observed. … Such incidents brought me to the verge of despair.
Ludwig von Beethoven, 1802, on his deafness