Communicating with hearing loss can be challenging. Hearing loss reduces capacity to hear and process speech as well as sound which can make it tough to have conversations. Have you felt excluded during a conversation or had trouble keeping up with what your loved ones [...]
The new year is a wonderful invitation to recommit to your health and wellness. A great way you can do this is prioritize your hearing which is often an under-recognized aspect of overall health. Hearing is a critical sense that we use to navigate everyday [...]
Hearing is a critical sense we use to navigate everyday life and relationships. So when it is impaired, the effects can be profound. Nearly 1 in 6 people already live with some degree of hearing loss and this is expected to increase. Hearing loss reduces [...]
An often under-recognized impact of untreated hearing loss is social withdrawal. Hearing loss produces a range of symptoms that make it challenging to navigate conversations. Strained communication often leads to avoiding conversations as much as possible to cope with hearing loss. This causes social withdrawal [...]
Hearing is something we don’t often think about but it is essential to how we navigate daily life and our relationships. Hearing health tends to be taken for granted until one experiences decline. Over 48 million, nearly 1 in 8, people are impacted by hearing [...]
Experiencing hearing loss can be overwhelming. Nearly 1 in 8 people have some degree of impaired hearing but only a third of people who could benefit from treatment actually receive it. Untreated hearing loss symptoms can take a toll on communication, relationships, social engagement, and [...]
American Diabetes Month is a global campaign that raises awareness about the disease and the wide range of resources available to prioritize your health. The American Diabetes Association estimates that 38 million people have diabetes in the United States and 1.5 million people are diagnosed [...]
Hearing loss can pose a challenge to communication in any context, but working relationships can be particularly difficult to navigate with hearing loss. At work we are keen to build friendships and expand our networks, but a lot can be on the line in our [...]
If you know that you have hearing loss but have not taken action to pursue treatment, you might be making your problems much worse. Hearing loss is not an isolated condition. On the contrary, failing to address your hearing loss can be part of a [...]
When we ask relationship experts if they could recommend one way to improve relationships, a common theme emerges. Healthy relationships rely on good communication, and couples’ therapists and other experts agree that miscommunication underlies many other relationship issues. By definition, a relationship is a communication [...]
