How to Enjoy the Holidays With Hearing Loss
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How to Enjoy the Holidays With Hearing Loss

The holiday season is in full swing. It is a time to be enjoyed, and to connect and socialize with friends, colleagues, and family. Yet, for those of us with hearing loss, we may be feeling less joy and more frustration.

If you find the holidays frustrating due to your hearing loss, here are 6 tips to help you get the most out of interactions with loved ones and get more enjoyment out of this busy time of year.

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Mental Health Awareness Week: Let’s Talk About Hearing Loss Grief
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Mental Health Awareness Week: Let’s Talk About Hearing Loss Grief

When I suddenly lost the hearing in my left ear, I was so focused on the practical impact of my hearing loss and learning to live with single-sided deafness that I barely stopped to acknowledge my feelings.

Several months after my sudden hearing loss, I was given some advice from a stranger, who I had briefly connected with online. They told me that, as with any other loss in life, I would need to grieve my lost sound with the attention it deserved. This advice proved crucial in helping me address the emotional aspects of my new situation and immediately made it feel acceptable for me to begin the grieving process.

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Deaf Awareness Week: 5 Surprising Facts About Life With Single-Sided Deafness
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Deaf Awareness Week: 5 Surprising Facts About Life With Single-Sided Deafness

This week is Deaf Awareness Week!

Deaf Awareness Week is an opportunity to highlight how hearing loss affects daily life and to share ways others can offer meaningful support. Being deaf brings unique challenges—practical, emotional, and social—that not everyone will experience or fully understand.

This Deaf Awareness Week, I’m bringing attention to Single-Sided Deafness (SSD), a type of unilateral hearing loss, where a person has no or limited access to sound in one ear. 

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