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Tips for Better Hearing and Communication with Hearing Loss By Carolyn Stern, Asst. Director of Outreach and Strategic Initiatives For a summary of holiday communication tips click the link above. Otherwise read on for the complete post. The pandemic will prevent many of us from keeping our traditional ways of celebrating this holiday season with friends and family. While this is certainly sad, there is an opportunity for staying connected virtually – with the right technolog

By Nancy J. Rennert, MD and Carolyn Stern, MBA Life this past year has certainly been different – and healthcare is different, too. With the Covid- 19 pandemic, our lives changed. Access to health care was restricted and people with hearing loss faced additional communication barriers due to the use of face masks and policies limiting in-person interpreters. With vaccines and declining infection rates, recommendations recently changed to allow certain groups of people to go w

Carolyn Stern, Asst. Director of Outreach and Strategic Initiatives By Carolyn Stern, MBA Assistant Director of Outreach and Strategic Initiatives As my routine health care appointments were cancelled a few months ago due to the Covid-19 shutdown, initially, it felt like a fun break from always being “so responsible” for keeping myself healthy. At the same, I felt uneasy because it’s been ingrained to never miss important preventative visits and screenings. While staying safe

In this Era of Face Masks: Ideas for Better Communication with Hearing Loss To help, the Center for Hearing and Communication (CHC) has developed a list of ideas to make this difficult issue a little easier. Scroll down to read our 10 Tips for Managing Face Masks and Hearing Loss. We also hosted a May 4th webinar on this topic featuring CHC’s clinical staff. Please click below to view the informative video facilitated by CHC’s Executive Director, Laurie Hanin. View Face Masks