#hearingloss — Public Fediverse posts

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.

https://hybridmind42.substack.com/p/can-you-hear-the-beep?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

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

@gyokusai The closed captions quality on GO2 really is horrid

#HoH #HardOfHearing #deaf #DeafAwareness #HearingLoss

I have a cochlear implant and without it, things are completely silent. Mentally though, my brain sometimes scrambles to fill in the gaps and imagine sounds that aren’t real and this often takes the form of a droning noise that gets louder the more I notice it, like an auditory pink elephant. There’s also the occasional faint illegible voice to spice things up - I swear I’m not going mad.

#deaf #cochlearimplant #audiology #technology #hearingloss #disability #accessibility #mentalhealth #hearing #speechprocessor #deafawareness