Recent content by LK

While an actual cure for cochlear issues is a long way down the road, there is research going on into regeneration of the hair cells within the cochlea, and regeneration of nerve tissue. For those who may want to gain/regain some hearing. I like science. When something goes awry, I want to...

Looks like this has been answered pretty thoroughly. ADA requires reasonable accommodation (which use of e-mail most certainly is), but it can't stop people from being jerks. I prefer to believe that most people do that out of ignorance. Hopefully they'll be open to some education on what...

There's nothing like trying to communicate in what is essentially a foreign language, painfully aware of how much you suck at it, to make a person more tolerant of others who speak a foreign language.

Perhaps the difficulty is that for most of my patients, 7th grade math was a long time ago (2-7 decades), and they didn't have much cause to remember what the heck logarithms were in the meantime. I've spent a lot of time trying to clear up confusion on the subject, and for people outside the...

Since I'm typically explaining some bad news to them, they typically have more on their mind than a driving need to learn logarithmic math..which, incidentally, I've had to teach to nurses and grad level audiology students, and it's not that easy. It is nothing like temp, weight, length, etc...

Anij: sorry, my bad. It's audiological lingo derived from 'hearing impairment', indicating, as noted, that the original status of the individual was hearing within the normal range for humans. No offense meant; think of it as a dialectical difference, in the same way that 'dumb' is still...

LM, in answer to tour question, I'd guess the big one is a tendency to use 'Are you deaf? In place of 'Are you stupid?' or 'weren't you paying attention?' i kinda think that's changing, especially with so many deaf/ profoundly HI kids mainstreaming; kids stop to think about it because they...

I never really focused on dB with pagients: I'd discuss their hearing loss in terms of mild/moderate/severe/profound, usually with the audiogram in front of them. People don't always register the numbers, and they're not always good at trying to interpret graphs. Whereas "My hearing loss is...

Late to the picnic, but here's my two cents: absolutely. One of my most respected colleagues was a Health scientist for OSHA. She did extensive work on clarifying best practice recommendations for the hearing impaired when it came to working in noise. She also had considerable hearing loss...

Hee.

My signing was never great, and without much use, it became pretty awful. But I'd try anyway with my deaf patients, who were always very nice about it, and only laughed a little. Sometimes we had to go to paper, but sometimes we'd muddle through on signs, finger-spelling, lip-reading...

Was it Happy Bunny? Because I have that on a luggage tag.

Yep.

Exactly.

So I was visiting the Westone website and spotted this recall notice: Oto-Ease® Voluntary Recall And since severe or worse hearing loss tends to mean tight earmolds, I figured people might need to know. Oto-ease is pretty obviously labeled, but check the link for details.