My name is Megan. I am 23 years old and was diagnosed with a bilateral, progressive sensorineural hearing loss when I was 4. Since then I have worn hearing aids. My left ear has a severe loss and my right ear has a severe to profound loss. In my blog I write about hearing loss, and interesting news related to it.
I'm Jen, mom to Lucas (b. 12-23-07), born with profound sensorineural hearing loss. He wore hearing aids for 9 months without any benefit, and received a cochlear implant in his right ear 3 days after his first birthday. He loves to hear with his new "ear"!
I am a 34-year-old IT professional with severe hearing loss that has been progressive over my lifetime. I wear hearing aids, and have been learning ASL and connecting with my local Deaf community for a couple years now. One of my children also carries the same genetic syndrome as me, and has moderately severe hearing loss as well.
I am a stay at home mother to 7 children. My blog is about my youngest child Ava, who was born profoundly deaf in June, 2008. She received cochlear implants and had them activated when she was 10 months old. Today she has age appropriate speech and language. The blog is about Ava's journey to the hearing world and I regularly report on her progress, challenges and everyday life with a deaf...
Margaret White is a medical correspondent based in Beverly Hills and covers medical issues. In a series of articles she will be covering problems associated with hearing loss and hearing aids. Her article is based on an interview with Warren Willard owner of Hearing ABC. You can take a Free Online Hearing Test at Hearing ABC to check your audio perceptiveness.
Follow my journey as I get used to wearing a cochlear implant and the sounds that I hear for the first time since being implanted in May 2009. I am profoundly deaf since birth and have worn conventional types of body worn aids up to digital hearing aids from 6mths old up to May 2009. My blog describes my experiences with the cochlear implant and how I perceive everyday sounds with the implant.
Although my hearing loss doesn't define me, it has definitely affected me! I grew up with a bilateral hearing loss that was discovered when I was 4 years old. I wore a hearing aid and was mainstreamed in school. It's never been determined what caused my hearing loss, but I suspect it's genetic.
In 1993, I lost all the remaining hearing in my right ear (for unknown...
I am an American Mom living in Tuscany. My twelve year old son Jordan was born profoundly deaf, wore hearing aids for eight years and currently wears a cochlear implant. My blog is the story of our journey.
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Tasha Hanley was born profoundly deaf, in both ears. She was raised using sign language and became fully mainstreamed in fifth grade, using a sign language interpreter. At age 18, while attending the University of Washington, she decided to get a cochlear implant after using hearing aids on the highest volume and wishing to get the full spectrum of sounds around her. Activation on July 1st, 2008...
