Top Teacher Instills Life Skills

Meet Dewey Gottlieb. Educator extraordinaire. Hometown boy made good. Those are a few of many ways to describe the 30-something Hawaiian I met in May. We came together not by chance. As often happens, ... Read More »

Backstage

CHHC Sponsors “0 to 3” Event

The Congressional Hearing Health Caucus (CHHC) convened on Capitol Hill on May 5, Hearing Healthy Kids Day, and focused on hearing loss in children from ... Read More »

Bush & Kerry On Disabilities

With the Republican and Democratic national conventions upon us, the 2004 presidential election will soon be here. Earlier this summer, the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) presented ... Read More »

FYI

Digital Down in Price and Up in Sales

Recently released results of Hearing Review’s annual survey of hearing aid dispensers brings good news to consumers. The average price of digital ... Read More »

Better Hearing for All Nations

I am pleased to introduce Hearing Health’s special coverage of global initiatives to bring better hearing and improved lives to all people with hearing loss. As you read the next several pages, I ... Read More »

Hearing Help Needed: AIDS-Related Hearing Disorders Overwhelm South Africa

Today, 8,000 people will die of AIDS. The numbers are numbing as we struggle to comprehend the most critical health concern currently facing the world. This is especially true in Africa, now bearing ... Read More »

Mailbag - Letters to the Editor

Pilot Needs New Kind of Headset

I could use your expertise in selecting a set of wireless headphones to be used for TV reception. I am a retired Air Force pilot and many years of flying ... Read More »

Hearing Aid Tax Credit: Promising Option Merits Support

Taxpayers who are hearing aid users may wonder what the effects would be if Congress passes the Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit Act. Backers believe that it could become the decade’s most financially ... Read More »

How Hearing Health Readers Grandparent

Do deaf and hard-of-hearing grandparents think that their hearing loss affects their relationship with their grandchildren? Apparently many do, according to responses to Hearing Health’s survey on ... Read More »

Hearing My Grandchildren, Let Me Count the Ways

Grandchildren are fun. Their small arms hug our necks, they like to take slow walks with us looking at every bug or bird, and because of them, we are allowed to act like children for the third time ... Read More »