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Halloween Tips for Families With Hearing Challenges

For children with hearing loss and their families, Halloween traditions can be adjusted to make sure everyone enjoys a comfortable experience. Here are a few tips to help make the holiday fun and safe.

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How Inaccessible Public Venues Violate Disability Rights

For people with hearing loss, a lack of assistive listening devices in an auditorium is as much a barrier to enjoyment of a performance as a steep flight of stairs would be to someone with a mobility disorder.

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Empowering Others Through My Journey With Pendred Syndrome

I am 16 years old and live in California. I was born with Pendred syndrome, which is why I have severe to profound, bilateral hearing loss and wear hearing aids. 

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Simple Strategies to Boost Language Skills in Children With Hearing Loss

As a teacher of the deaf in New York City, I can see that as easy as it was for me to “pick up” language, for our children with hearing loss this is not the case. It’s quite the opposite. Children with hearing loss miss out on learning language incidentally on a daily basis, even with their hearing devices. 

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Hearing Our Way

Ten years ago, I embarked on a mission to support children with hearing loss. These kids are often one of the few, if not the only, children with hearing loss in their mainstream schools. My goal was to connect them with other kids like themselves and introduce them to inspiring role models who also have hearing loss.

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Minimizing Noise to Maximize Student Success

Making tiny adjustments creates a more favorable learning environment for all learners. We can minimize background noise and improve classroom acoustics to enhance clear communication and understanding.

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Let’s Hear It for Hearing Access in Public Spaces

There are a lot of people with hearing loss out there. We need to come together to tell the world how to accommodate our needs, and why. If we stay silent, we cannot expect anything to improve.

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More Like a Boost

Let’s push back against the idea of a “loss” or “impairment” when it comes to hearing.

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Sharing Stories, Solutions, and Support

After moving to a new state, a woman with a hearing loss is glad to eventually find her people.

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How I’m Teaching My Kids to Advocate for Themselves

While as a parent advocating for your child is important, teaching kids how to advocate for themselves is more impactful. 

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