THE HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF
ANNOUNCES NEW
VIDEO SERIES ON HEARING LOSS
If you think you have a hearing loss or know someone who does, please point
them to the videos where hearing health care professionals and people with
hearing loss talk about what you can do about it.
The message throughout the videos is that just about everyone can be helped
with their hearing loss. But the first step is to acknowledge it and get a
proper diagnosis. John K. Niparko, M.D., otolaryngologist at the
The Hearing Loss Association of America gathered a team of hearing health care
professionals to cover the following topics:
In addition to sound
medical and audiological advice, two Hearing Loss
Association of America members, Reed Doughty and Bonnie O’Leary, talk about
their hearing loss.
Reed Doughty, Washington Redskins safety, first obtained hearing aids during
his NFL career. He says, “When I first got with the Redskins, I was not wearing
hearing aids. I finally got hearing aids and it really improved my ability to
be able to pay attention, to interact in the locker room, and engage in
conversations that previously would have been very difficult.”
He goes on to say, “For me growing up there was a stigma and looking back I
wished I would have gotten hearing aids earlier. Kids need to have self-esteem
and put themselves in the best situation for school and for a fun and active
lifestyle.”
Bonnie O’Leary, late-deafened adult and now a certified hearing loss support specialist, said it was her children who first noticed her
hearing loss. “They would talk to me from the back seat of the car and I didn’t
answer or they talked to me from another room and I heard them talking but I
couldn’t understand them. Finally, my son said, ‘Mom, I don’t think you are
hearing quite the way you used to.’”
The last video includes suggestions for finding mutual support through HLAA
Chapters and information about the Hearing Loss Association of America and the
work it does on behalf of 36 million people with hearing loss in the
The message throughout is that
hearing loss is a major public health concern and you do not need to hide it.
With the right help, hearing loss is a daily challenge you can overcome.
The open-captioned and non-captioned versions of the videos are on www.monkeysee.com, the website known for
its "See how the experts do it" videos. The videos can be found under
"Health and Fitness." Once you get to the videos, the caption
versions appear when you click the tab "All Videos by This Expert."
The videos also appear captioned on www.hearingloss.org and www.YouTube.com.
Knowlera Media also makes the videos available to
their 300+ websites that license their video content. A shortened broadcast
news version of the videos will be added to Knowlera
Media’s news library and made available to local television stations across the
country that license their content. In the