Coping with Hearing Loss
Coping with hearing loss is a lot more than just getting hearing aids.
Unfortunately the folks who sell us hearing aids too often forget that,
and people can have hearing loss for 20 years or more and never learn
about the other components to a good program to deal with hearing loss.
Here are some thoughts on the often-neglected components.
August 2007 - Here's Steve Barber with his thoughts
on the topic.
October 2007 - And here's Denise
Portis' "Between a Rock and a Hard Place"
October 2007 -
Spouses Also Affected by
Hearing Loss
April 2008 - Teen overcomes his hearing
impairment to fulfill a dream
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April 2008
At age 3, Ben-Han Sung was clinically diagnosed
with moderate to severe hearing loss in both ears. Now 15, the violinist
and piano player is among a select group of five young musicians who have
been chosen to perform as Discovery Artists with the New West Symphony
Orchestra. [ . . . ] A ninth-grader, Ben-Han is concertmaster of the
Harvard-Westlake Middle School Symphony Orchestra and the California
Association of Independent School Honor Festival String Orchestra, and
served the same role for the Los Angeles Unified School District Honor
Orchestra in 2004, 2006 and 2007. He has also won top honors in
competitions with groups, including the Music Teachers' Association of
California, the California Association of Professional Music Teachers and
the American String Teachers Association.
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