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  1. Can Exercise Improve Your Hearing in Noisy Rooms?

    It’s easy to take hearing for granted.  A podcast playing in the background. Your kids making animal noises…
    #NewsBeep #News #Fitness #AU #Australia #Exercise #Health #HearingLoss
    newsbeep.com/au/880202/

  2. Can Exercise Improve Your Hearing in Noisy Rooms?

    It’s easy to take hearing for granted.  A podcast playing in the background. Your kids making animal noises…
    #NewsBeep #News #Fitness #AU #Australia #Exercise #Health #HearingLoss
    newsbeep.com/au/880202/

  3. Can you hear the beep? 👂

    An audiogram measures something extremely useful: the quietest pure tone we can detect at different frequencies.

    But:
    Detection ≠ Attention ≠ Understanding

    Real hearing means extracting a voice from noise, recognising incomplete information, localising sound, adapting to change — and doing all of that comfortably and without unreasonable cognitive effort.

    My new HybridMind42 article asks a simple question:
    Are we measuring hearing loss, or measuring enough of human hearing to understand what a person actually needs?

    The audiogram isn't the problem.
    Don't break the tool. Define its proper boundaries.

    hybridmind42.substack.com/p/ca

    #HybridMind42 #Audiology #Hearing #HearingLoss #HearingAids #Tinnitus #Neuroscience #HumanPerception #ScienceCommunication

  4. #MénièresDisease #Vertigo #Caffine #Salt #HearingLoss #Balance

    It took three years to get a diagnosis of Menieres--2017 to 2020

    It's been 5 years since I had caffinated coffee.
    It's been 7 years since I shook a salt shaker.
    It's been one day since I stopped decaf coffee.

    I began having severe vertigo last week. 3 very strong episodes, what I scale as 8 out of 10, 10 being a drop attack. Yes, that's just what it sounds like--no warning, no spinning or tilting--just down.

    2 of them happened while I was driving. It really SUCKS and is very scary because even trying to get to the side of the road seems impossible when everything is sliding and tilting and moving up and down.
    One other was milder.

    This week one severe (again while driving!) and three small episodes.

    I had been free of it for
    nearly two full years, after an injection into my right ear drum.

    I'm not fucking around with it. I called my doctor and am scheduling a second injection---the risk is deafness on that ear, whech already can't hear. Th eprevious injection caused no drum tissue damage, so it's worth it for me.

    End of my pissing and moaning. I am very grateful for medicare and secondary insurance.

  5. Source: @mercurynews.com

    From the article: "New technology — and its rapid adoption for remote work during COVID-19 — continues to break down many barriers for people with disabilities. There are more ways than ever for workplaces to ensure accessibility, often at little to no cost. For example, voice recognition expands communication options for those who face challenges with traditional keyboards. And auto-captioning ensures that people who are deaf or experiencing hearing loss can fully engage with multimedia content."

    #Disabled #Disabilities #Blind #Accessibility #AssistiveTechnology #VoiceRecognition #VisuallyImpaired #TextToSpeach #Deaf #HearingLoss #AutoCaptioning #Employees #Employers

    mercurynews.com/2025/03/14/how

  6. #MenieresDisease #HearingLoss #ASL #Deafness #TeachingASL

    I'm planning ahead, hopefully I will not lose my hearing altogether, but if i should, I want to be prepared. So...American Sign Language...

    If you have any experience with it, esp learning it as a hearing person, is online learning or in person learning the better method?

  7. CW: Bunch of personal stuff, some kind of whiny

    Sometimes I think of how many physical/mental strikes I had against me from birth. This shrimpy* kid with a progressive hearing loss, twisted-up legs, deeply fucked #executiveFunction, who almost died right away from mastitis, who was spanked or whipped almost every day of his life from age 2-12, whose mom probably had a #personalityDisorder and ran an authoritarian dictatorship household (6 kids), whose dad was rarely around and honestly didn't seem all that involved or interested when he was; the kid who went to boarding school (for the #deaf) at age 13 and never felt 100% like part of the family after that...

    Sometimes I feel sorry for myself. Other times I feel like Fuck Yeah I'm Still Here (and somehow gainfully employed and have an absofuckinglutely amazing kid).

    And I remember that I was also that shrimpy* kid who couldn't stop #reading; who was obsessed with finding out what was true and right; who loved visual, musical, and dramatic #art almost more than life; who played with #words and ideas instead of balls and teammates, who had a mother willing to slap you in the face for disrespect but also willing to fight half a dozen school districts to get her kids into the best classes or #PublicSchool available, whose father didn't seem to like him all that much, but did love him and worked himself almost to death, giving up the career he was passionate about to feed his family.

    The mix of #selfPity and gratitude swings wide, sometimes. This morning it's #gratitude.

    *No longer shrimpy, starting at about age 25; in fact, kind of chunky since then.

    #disability #hearingloss #navelgazing

  8. I just moved my account to #Fediscience so a new #Introduction is in order!
    I am a @CNRS researcher at École normale supérieure de Paris, working (mostly) on #AuditoryPerception, #psycholinguistics and #HearingLoss. I also have a popular science blog in French (dbao.leo-varnet.fr/), so I'm always confused if I should post toots in French or in English. I think I'll do both.