My Hero, My Inspiration, My Brother with Hearing Loss (ONLINE EXCLUSIVE)

“The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.”  Don Williams, Jr.

My memories begin with my ... Read More »

How to Deal with Bullies (ONLINE EXCLUSIVE)

When I was kindergarten back in the 1950s, one girl bullied me every day about my appearance. Because of her insults, I felt ugly and defective. I wanted her to stop bullying me but I was shy and confused ... Read More »

New Leadership at DRF

The Deafness Research Foundation (DRF) is proud to announce and welcome David S. Haynes, M.D., FACS, as the new president of The Centurions. Haynes is excited to assume the leadership of The Centurions, ... Read More »

Deaf Sentence – A Review

For Desmond Bates, retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

He’s bored. He resents the obligatory monthly calls to his cantankerous and half-deaf elderly father in London. His wife’s ... Read More »

Five Good Reasons Why You Should Read T4

Do you even know what T4 is?
I didn’t. So the first good reason to read T4: A Novel in Verse by Ann Clare LeZotte is to educate yourself on this rarely discussed ... Read More »

Have You Heard?

Captioning It All
On September 30, 2008, a federal judge ordered the Washington Redskins’ FedEx Field to continue providing captions as they have been doing in response to a 2006 ... Read More »

Much More than a Pet

Just as guide dogs have proven to be great living companions for the blind, hearing dogs are becoming increasingly popular for people who are deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH). Doorbells, smoke alarms, ... Read More »

DRF Beats Nobel to the Prize in Honoring Georg Von Bekesy

In 1961, when Georg Von Bekesy arrived in New York City to receive an achievement award from the Deafness Research Foundation (DRF), he had no idea that soon he would also be honored with a Nobel Prize ... Read More »

A Trend Toward More Retail Medical Services?

Hearing aid stores are just one of several examples of medical care that have popped up in retail venues in recent years. Currently, there are some 450 retail clinics nationwide and a significant increase ... Read More »

Cholesterol and the Cochlea: Does Diet Affect Hearing?

Cholesterol – friend or foe? The damaging effects of high levels of cholesterol are well-known: coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis, heart attack, stroke.  Just the mention of the word conjures ... Read More »

Children Discover the Magic of Better Hearing

Focusing on ears can have magical results. Just ask Mickey Mouse. And for young children with hearing loss, there’s a lot that goes on between those little ears that might need just a sprinkling ... Read More »

Chinese People Say “Meow”?

I found myself stalking the deaf man in the produce section again. I tried to do it casually, making several nonchalant passes to scrutinize some exotic fruit or member of the squash family that looked ... Read More »

Hear in Stereo Again

Are you – or is someone you know – among the more than 50,000 people in the United States who were diagnosed with single sided deafness this year?

Single sided deafness (SSD) is characterized ... Read More »

Implant Technology Evangelist

Finally, the day came. Dr. Ernesto Diaz Ordaz snapped my new Baha hearing aid into place. He asked, “Can you hear me?” After 14 years of deafness in my right year and deteriorating hearing in my ... Read More »

MS, Hearing Loss and Still Overachieving

“When a hunting dog spots a rabbit, they make a sound like AAHROO!” Cindy M. Hartman says with a chuckle. At her aptly named Aahroo Kennels in Lugoff, S.C., Hartman breeds, raises and trains the ... Read More »

Hearing Preservation On the Horizon

Hearing loss and deafness are the most common sensory deficits in babies, affecting between two and three per 1,000 newborns. But hearing loss and deafness affect one in 10 people in the general population, ... Read More »

Retail Hearing Aids: A New Paradigm for Reaching Consumers with Hearing Loss

“Honey, don’t forget to pick up a hearing aid on your way home from work!” Could buying hearing aids be as easy as swinging by the supermarket to pick up a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk? ... Read More »