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Hearing Loss Strategies
By Val Bedard
For most of us, social get-togethers bring us joy at being able to spend time with family and friends but for some of us it is a challenging time. If you have a hearing loss, it is difficult to be cheerful when you can’t hear what is being said around you. It is easy to get depressed and have feelings of being left out when you don’t understand what everyone around you is saying.
It can also be a challenge for our friends and family who have normal hearing to understand how to help us be included so that we are not left out. People who care about us want us to be able to hear but they don’t understand how to help. The best suggestion I can offer to the hearing public is this: get the person’s attention first before speaking. When they are looking at you, then speak to them as you normally would. Oh yeah, slow down your speech a little, we are all talking way too fast!
In my own life, I try to keep up with conversations in a group by just focusing on one person (the speaker). I almost ignore the others in the group as I just can’t keep up with the discussion as it bounces back and forth from one person to another. I do best when I can see the speaker, read their lips and combine that with what I hear, I am able to get the “gist” of what was being said.
As much as I can, I try to control my environment by sitting where I have the best view of the group i.e. lights are behind me rather than behind the speaker. By having the light behind me, it avoids having the light shining right into my eyes so I can’t see the speaker’s face to read their lips. In smaller groups, same strategy applies, I try to sit where I can see most of the faces of the group and then one at a time, I focus on whoever is doing the talking.
All this work that I have to do to “hear” does get a little wearying, so my husband knows that I need some quiet time to recharge my batteries so we’ll talk with the person sitting closest to us so that I don’t have to work so hard to “hear” the conversation.
By the time that it is ready to go home, I am pretty tired but I am so used to having to work so hard to hear at social functions, it doesn’t occur to me to be any other way. For those who are losing or have lost a good portion of their hearing, they have to learn some coping strategies in helping them hear in social gatherings.
Val Bedard has a profound hearing loss since birth. She owns her own business Hear Well Services Ltd. (http://www.hearwell.ca), sells assistive listening devices for the hearing impaired, can be reached via email at info@hearwell.ca or by telephone at 1-888-549-2092. She is also Past President of the B.C. Chapter of the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association and lives with her husband of 24+ years along her dog Katie and cat Neelix.
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