Lines of Communication

Hearing Aid Discount Offer of 20% (Up to $1,000) Special offer from CHC-NY in honor of Better Hearing and Speech Month. With New York City beginning to reopen, it’s exciting to look forward to all the experiences we’ll be rediscovering soon. Whether you enjoy in-person gatherings, dining out or seeing a show, expect the future to be full of new communication opportunities. At the same time, know that there will be communication challenges along the way, and CHC is here to hel

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

By Carolyn Stern Assistant Director of Outreach and Strategic Initiatives While Zoom is probably the most popular videoconferencing platform, currently it does not provide automatic captioning of live Zoom meetings. Anecdotally, testing of an integrated automatic captioning feature is underway, but a release date is not known at this point. Until it is made available, here are some options for captioning your Zoom sessions. 3 Ways to Caption a Zoom Meeting #1. Hire a Remote L