Lines of Communication

Overcoming anxieties and challenges to communication Janick Hickman, MS, is a mental health counselor with the Center for Hearing and Communication in Broward County, Florida. Janick Hickman, Mental Health Counselor Face masks have become a new way of life in the United States and all over the world. For children, especially, this can be a difficult and scary transition. Some of the feedback around the nation suggests that this experience may be anxiety provoking due to sensi

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

Hone skills that keep you in the conversation Linda Kessler, MA, CCC-SLP For most people with a hearing loss, whether they use hearing aids or cochlear implants, the auditory pathway is primary, and most information about a conversation is received by hearing. But almost all people with a hearing loss rely on visual clues to some degree – in fact, so do many people with normal hearing. Have you ever heard, “Wait, let me put my glasses on so I can hear you better”? And when li

Our adult services: NYC’s best-kept secret I have often heard clients say to me that they had been coming to the Center for Hearing and Communication (CHC) for years and never knew that we offered communication services for adults. Perhaps I can set the record straight. SLP Linda Kessler’s speechreading class I’m Linda Kessler, a speech-language pathologist who has worked with adult clients at CHC in New York for over 25 years. Typically, my clients wear hearing aids and/or c

Hear and communicate with confidence Linda Kessler, Speech-Language Pathologist Did you know that we provide communication services to help adults who use hearing aids or cochlear implants improve their ability to hear and communicate? I’m Linda Kessler, MA, CCC-SLP, a speech-language pathologist in New York with 25 years of experience at the Center for Hearing and Communication (CHC) working with adults who are deaf and hard of hearing. Clients come to CHC for communication

Spring is a great time to embrace self-improvement. May we suggest improving your speechreading skills? Speechreading (once known as lipreading) is a highly effective tool to help people with all degrees of hearing loss hear spoken language better. Most people learn to speechread to varying degrees. But at the Center for Hearing and Communication (CHC) we help people develop their speechreading skills to the highest level possible so they can get the most benefit. We’ve been