Living With Hearing Loss
Click here to view the Hearing Loss Association of America's 4-minute captioned video Living with Hearing Loss
Click here to view the Mayo Clinic website information on living and coping with hearing loss. This information is not medical advice and is not intended to substitute for the advice of a physician.
These tips can help you to communicate more easily despite your hearing loss:
- Position yourself to hear. Face the person with whom you're having a conversation.
- Turn off background noise. For example, noise from a television may interfere with conversation.
- Ask others to speak clearly. Most people will be helpful if they know you're having trouble hearing them.
- Choose quiet settings. In public, such as in a restaurant or at a social gathering, choose a place to talk that's away from noisy areas.
- Consider using an assistive listening device. Hearing devices, such as TV-listening systems or telephone-amplifying devices, can help you hear better while decreasing other noises around you.
Other resources that can help you live well with hearing loss:
- Advocacy
- How to Advocate For Legislation
- Mental Health Issues for the Deaf
- Obligations of the Hospitality Industry
- Hotel Alert Devices – How to Get Them/What the Law Says
- FLY RIGHTS - A Consumer Guide to Air Travel - PASSENGERS WITH DISABILITIES - information for air travelers with disabilities, produced by the US Department of Transportation, Aviation Consumer Protection Division. Download a copy.
- Captions ON - Comprehensive Closed Captioning Website
- Captioned Movies and Live Theater
- Analog to Digital Television Conversion
- Closed Captioning Issues and Resource
- Movie Theater Captioning: Technology and Advocacy
- Find A Movie theater with Captioned films
- Find A Movie theater with Captions
- Open-Captioned Live Performances National Listing (Caption Coalition, Inc)
- Guidelines for Communication With a Hard Hearing Person
