Welcome!
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Hearing Loss Web is
dedicated to people who have hearing loss, but are not
members of the traditional Deaf community. This includes people who
consider themselves to be hearing impaired, hard of hearing, late deafened, and oral
deaf. We provide information on issues,
medical topics, resources,
and technology
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What's
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Interested in our perceptions of the current trends in the hearing
loss world! We read many of the email lists, subscribe to lots of
publications, and attend conventions every year. So we think we have a
pretty good pulse on what's going on! Here are our thoughts on current
trends: |
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Coverage of the 2012 HLAA Convention |
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Here's our coverage of the 2012 HLAA convention.
We've got LOTS of great reports on the workshops, activities, and
the "flavor" of this great event! |
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Forums, Chats,
and Comments on HLNews.net |
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We've tried a couple
of times to add some more interactive features to this site, but
haven't had a lot of success. So we decided to start a new site
that incorporated these features from the beginning. We're still
adding and tweaking, but a lot of the functionality is there,
including forums, chats, and comments. So click on over to
HLNews.net and let us hear
from you! |
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Our Discussion
Forum is Reborn! |
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You may recall that
we had to close our Discussion Forum because the spammers took
it over. We've created a new Forum on a new site and running
with new software that we think will allow us to virtually
eliminate spam. To see what folks are discussing or to participate
yourself, visit our Discussion Forum
NOW! |
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In
the News |
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Here
are quick excerpts of hearing loss stories in the news, along
with links to more complete coverage! |
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Chapters |
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Issues and their resolution continue to be a
hot topic among the hearing loss community. Check here to find out what really
sets us off and what we're doing about it.
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Medical aspects of hearing loss are
receiving increased attention from the medical and scientific community.
Here's where you can find out about current developments.
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Resources take many forms. It can be an
organization that informs us about a new device to assist us, a group of hard of
hearing, late deafened, or oral deaf people who REALLY understand a situation that has us upset, or someone who can
tell us how she successfully resolved our current problem.
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Technology
greatly improves access for people with hearing loss. There are so many new things that can really make a difference in our
lives. Read about them here.
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New to Hearing Loss ? |
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If you're new to hearing loss, you may not know enough about it to be
able to ask the right questions. So we've tried to ask and answer the
most common questions from "hearing loss newbies". But we've
done it in a way that lets YOU control how much about each topic you
read. We think you'll like our New to Hearing
Loss page.
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Finding Information on This Site |
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This is a large site with lots of information. Perhaps the best way
to find what you're looking for is to look at the links in the left
column. Topics are categorized under main headings, which should help
you locate the information you're seeking. Note that this column is
included in every page of this site to help you find your way around.
If you're looking
for very specific information on a particular topic, your best bet might be to search
this site.
Finally, you may choose to
scroll down to the chapter descriptions below, and follow the links in
that section to increasingly detailed and specific categories of
information. However you choose to navigate this site, we hope you'll
find it useful!
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Our
Mission |
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Hard of hearing, late deafened, and oral deaf Americans are
unrecognized and underserved. They have not been successful at educating
the public concerning their situation or at getting their needs met.
This website will focus on changing that reality.
Our goals are:
1) To provide resources to assist the hard of hearing, late deafened,
and oral deaf population to fully participate in mainstream American
society
2) To educate members of the hearing world about our hard of hearing,
late deafened, and oral deaf population |
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Discussion
Forum |
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We are very excited to announce the addition of our Discussion Forum.
Do you have a gripe you want to get off your chest? Or maybe you want to
let others know about a great resource you found. Or just see what
others in the hearing loss community have to say. Check it out on our
Discussion
Forum.
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Contact Us |
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Looking for
information that we don't provide? Find a broken link? Want to share
your opinion about something on our site. Please, please, please let
us know what you think!
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