Growing up in Florida, Kelleher, like many of her peers, didn’t have any deaf or hard-of-hearing friends. Until she came to Gallaudet, she used hearing aids to “help keep up in conversations.” Most deaf people (around 80%) are born to hearing families, many of whom do not learn ASL. It’s lonely and isolating, she said, […]

“Covid-19 changed everything. Face masks have become the must-have health item for 2020. Two images have become iconic on our screens during this pandemic: empty streets and people covering their noses and mouths. For many deaf people or people like me with less severe hearing problems, the two images convey the same loneliness.” Read more, […]

Alice, who now avoids crowded restaurants and parties, most likely has what’s known as “hidden hearing loss”—a brain problem hearing tests aren’t designed to catch. For this reason, it’s not a well-understood condition. “Hidden” hearing loss is defined as hearing loss that’s not detectable on standard hearing tests, which zero in on problems within the […]

We are living through changing times with dramatic shifts in our way of life seeming to happen on a daily basis. A whole range of services and buildings which were seen as merely important just a few weeks ago are now seen as vital links in a chain that will allow everyone to endure and […]

A cochlear implant improves communication and gives better understanding of speech and localising sounds for people with single-sided deafness, studies find. Three scientific studies find that cochlear implants improve hearing for people with single-sided deafness. Single-sided deafness (SSD) is a unilateral hearing loss where the person has normal hearing or near to normal hearing in […]