MYTH: Hearing aids will cure hearing loss or restore a hearing impaired individual’s hearing to normal. TRUTH: No hearing aid will ever allow a hearing impaired individual to have normal hearing. A hearing aid just cannot provide what the ear and its intricate working of nerves can. What it can do is amplify sounds so that those wearing them can…
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Hearing Impaired Phones Help Millions Communicate
We live in a society that is more dependent upon communication technology than at any other time in human history. And, with one out of ten people living with a hearing loss, it’s critically important to ensure that technology is readily adaptable to people who have mild to severe hearing loss. Thankfully, there are a number of hearing impaired phones…
Florida Schools Mckay Scholarship Program Offers Alternative School Choices To Students With Disabilities
The McKay Scholarship Program of the Florida schools offers parents and their children with disabilities the option to attend the public or private school of their choice. Florida schools students in grades kindergarten through high school, who are mentally handicapped, speech and language impaired, deaf or hard of hearing, visually impaired, dual sensory impaired, physically impaired, emotionally handicapped, specific learning…
Musical Instruments For The Blind
Blind children can learn to play a musical instrument just as well and often even better than, sighted children provided the desire and interest is there. Blind children often have a strong sense of rhythm and musical sensation since their hearing is more in tuned with the world. Of course the assumption should not be made that just because they…
Home Mobility
Don’t be a prisoner in your own home. If you or a household member happens to be mobility impaired, don’t allow this to stop one from continuing to enjoy a mobile quality of life. There are a lot of helpful mobility aids available in the market such as power scooters and wheelchairs to aid mobility but this is not enough.…
Hearing Aids And Glasses Leveling The Sensory Playing Field
Since time immemorial, people have referred to the eyes as “windows to the soul”, yet blind and deaf Helen Keller said “Hearing is the deepest, most philosophical sense man possesses.” For centuries, sight impaired people have worn glasses without being labeled “mentally defective.” Meanwhile, those with hearing impairment have suffered enormous prejudice. Labeled as “old”, “stupid”, “mentally ill”, or “selective…
Lose Your Sleep Lose Your Mind
Sleep is an essential requirement for sustaining human life. Nobody is entirely sure just how sleep works or what the body does while you’re out, but it is known that depriving yourself of a full night’s sleep can have unpleasant side effects. Sleep deprivation, sadly, is a growing problem in the modern world. Whether it is their schedule, the stress…
Defensive Driving A Way Of Life
Annually, more than 40,000 people lose their life in automobile accidents each year. Another two million suffer disabling injuries. These startling statistics are from the National Safety Council. The amount of casualties could be reduced if more people learned to drive defensively. No matter how careful or a skilled driver you are, high speeds, impaired or careless drivers, and not…