Get Loud About Hearing

Have you ever noticed a sound you never knew existed? My BlackBerry rollerball was the first tiny sound I heard when my first Phonak hearing aids turned on in 2009. I felt all nostalgic when I saw on the news yesterday that all non-Android BlackBerrys have been decommissioned. I had the exact sam

I'm sorry. That was clickbait. There are no recordings of me on the phone with insurance, that I am aware of. And for that I am very thankful! I'm embarrassed to admit that I've behaved, ahem, irrationally on the phone with my insurance company. Now that I'm older and have more emotional intellige

I bet this is the only hearing-related site on the entire internet that includes the words "boob tape." I'm not trying to be crass with my latest blog post. It's a TRUE embarrassing story of bluffing gone wrong - a hearing habit most people with hearing loss can relate to! My bluffing stories are E

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Bluetooth earbuds like AirPods Pro and Beats can be used as personal amplifiers in IOS 14. It is one way people can dabble in hearing aid life without jumping through all the hoops, and paying all the dollars, for prescription hearing aids. The more alternative hearing products enter the market, t

CONTENT WARNING: politics, profanity This viral meme happens to perfectly illustrate why louder ≠ clearer! Photo from Wikimedia Commons ICYMI: a NASCAR driver named Brandon Brown won a big race at Talladega Speedway in Alabama last month. During a post-victory live interview with NBC sports, thousa

"Sound of Metal" won Best Film Editing and Best Sound in the 2021 Academy Awards. This video describes some of the sound recording and editing techniques they used to bring us inside the main character's head: Sound of Metal's Brilliant Sound Design Explained Another thing I liked about "Sound of

If you don't know what I'm talking about, go check out my new story about one of my MOST EMBARRASSING high school moments, when my teacher made me feel stupid over something I just plain didn't hear. Hearing loss can cause people to adopt less than ideal coping mechanisms - bad hearing habits - to