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Heard In Fort Worth Hearing Loss Association of America - Fort Worth Chapter August 2016
HLAA Monthly Meeting Saturday, August 13, 10:00 a.m.
Snacks and socializing at 9:30 a.m.
Goodrich Center, 2500 Lipscomb St., Fort Worth
“Hearing Health” &
“Ask an Audiologist”
Presented by
Heather Dean, Au.D. Audiologist at Cityview Audiology
Come listen to what Dr. Heather Dean has to say about hearing loss. What are the main causes of hearing loss? What are some consequences of hearing loss? How can hearing loss affect the total body? She will also have an "Ask the Audiologist" Q/A time.
Dr. Heather Dean has been an audiologist for five years, graduating from the University of South Alabama in 2011. Before practicing at Cityview Audiology, she was in Atlanta, GA, at a large ENT practice. Dr. Dean has been with Cityview Audiology for two years, working part time while completing a Master of Theological Studies at Southwestern Baptist Seminary. She has decided to continue at Cityview Audiology after her graduation in May 2016.
Guests are always welcome at Fort Worth Chapter meetings. Join us!
Frank Brauer Appointed as Secretary
The Fort Worth Chapter’s board of directors has
appointed Frank Brauer to fill the position of secre-
tary for the remainder of the calendar year. Frank has
had hearing loss since birth and has worn hearing
aids since he was three years old.
After 25 years in the photo-processing industry,
Frank decided to return to college. He plans to
graduate this December with dual major bachelor’s
degrees in photojournalism and applied arts and
sciences. He will also receive a certificate in dispute
resolution.
“It is my desire to find a career as an advocate for
people with hearing disabilities. To serve at any
capacity is a welcome challenge,” Frank said.
The board believes Frank will be an asset to the work
of our chapter.
IN THIS ISSUE:
Reflections on the 2016 HLAA Convention
Extended report on June Program: Listening Training at Home: Workouts are Not Just for Your Abs, by Dr. Carol Cokely
Discourse Tracking, by Dr. Carol Cokely
Affordable and Accessible Hearing Health Care – editorial by David Edmondson
What Keeps Us Going? – editorial by Dan White
Photo Credit: The photograph of The Fort Worth Herd on our Heard In Fort Worth banner is used by permission of The Fort Worth Herd
and its sponsor, the Fort Worth Parks and Community Services Department.
David’s Discussion Accessible and Affordable Hearing Health Care
My wife Sharon and I had a wonderful time at the
National HLAA Convention in Washington, DC, and
found it very educational. This year we met jointly
with the International Federation of Hard of Hearing
People. The co-partnership in this year’s convention
gave it an international flair by having 22 countries
represented. We all learned that hearing loss in our
country is no different from the issues that other
countries face with hearing loss in their populations.
Hearing loss affects a large segment of the world’s
population, and only a small percentage of them are
benefitting from the use of hearing devices that will
provide a better quality of life.
One of the more exciting announcements at this
year’s convention was a committee report commis-
sioned by the National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine. The Committee on
Accessible and Affordable Hearing Health Care for
Adults released their report a few weeks ahead of the
convention, focusing on placing a top priority on
individuals with hearing loss. HLAA was on the top
of the list as one of the organizations sponsoring this
report as part of its advocacy goal that we all can
benefit from.
The report focused on the need for transparency and
changes in the cost of hearing health care and on
expanded treatment options, given the number of
Americans, estimated at 30 million, who have
hearing loss, and given the high cost of hearing
health care. It is estimated that only about 14 to 33
percent of adults over the age of 50 who could
benefit from hearing aids actually use them. The
committee believed that the high cost, lack of insur-
ance, the stigma associated with wearing hearing
aids, and limited awareness of available options are
barriers for people in accessing hearing health care.
The majority of these high costs are the responsibility
of the individual seeking this type of care.
The report also emphasized how important it is to
have everyone be part of the solution: health care
providers, hearing health care professionals,
employers, government agencies, professional
associations, researchers, and consumer support
advocacy groups. The fact is that good hearing is
crucial to our quality of life, and the recommenda-
tions in this report will allow all of us to have better
availability of hearing health care as these recom-
mendations are implemented. HLAA at the national,
state, and chapter levels can all play a role in moving
this implementation forward. The education and
advocacy goals of our HLAA organization can be
responsible for providing our constituents with
credible information to make informed choices.
The report identifies the need to support and manage
hearing health and to foster environments that maxi-
mize hearing and communication for all of us. For
example, reducing exposure to noise at high volume
levels for extended periods of time and using hearing
protection as appropriate for the environment will
reduce the damage being done to our hearing health.
The report also emphasizes the need for compliance
with the Americans with Disabilities Act and other
laws and to exceed their minimum requirements, as
well as to research and incorporate features into
buildings and public spaces that improve hearing and
communication.
Our quality of life depends on it, and this report takes
us closer to the realization that this can really happen
as their recommendations are adopted. The report is
publically available on the Internet and accessible to
all of us. As part of our commitment to ourselves and
other hearing loss individuals in our country, we
should make ourselves aware of these recommenda-
tions and do everything in our power to support the
implementation of each and every one of them. These
recommendations identify key institutional, techno-
logical, and regulatory changes that would enable all
of us to find and fully use the appropriate, affordable,
and high-quality services, technologies, and support
we need.
– David Edmondson, Chapter President
For more information on the report, go to:
http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/reports/2016/Hearing-
Health-Care-for-Adults.aspx
HIGHLIGHTS OF JULY 2016 PROGRAM:
2016 HLAA Convention Reflections
Presented by David Edmondson, Sharon Edmondson, and others
From meeting transcript by Maribel Arredondo, CSR; edited and summarized by Dan White
The goal of the convention was communication. That
is the goal of HLAA. The new Executive Director
Barbara Kelly spoke at the opening session. She
pointed out that HLAA is the premier organization
that has hearing loss as its number one priority. We
advocate and educate, speaking up and making others
aware of hearing loss. We promote research and
legislation, making known that hearing loss is a key
disability in this nation and the world. Being able to
hear is essential.
She spoke about our needing to learn to request
assistance for hearing and to be an advocate for
hearing loss concerns. Have you ever gone to a
meeting and requested assistance for your hearing
loss? We need to say, I have a hearing problem. Can I
have closed captions? Is there a looping system? Can
I have sign language? Can I have CART sitting there
beside me? You might not get it, but you surely are
not going to get it if you don't ask for it.
Another general session featured Jenny Lay-Flurrie,
Microsoft’s Senior Director of its Trusted Experience
Team (TExT). She is Microsoft’s chief accessibility
officer. Microsoft has created a division for
accessibility, and her job is to make sure that the
products and websites have greater accessibility. She
was there to get insights to improve their products.
She said we are going through a cultural evolution,
and hearing loss is finally being identified as the
number two disability in the United States. She is
deaf herself, and her job at Microsoft is to empower
people with hearing loss through technology.
She commented that one of our problems is that we
learn to hide our disability. Rather than come out and
say we have a disability and need assistance, we hide
it, and that doesn't help us. But then finally, we hit a
brick wall, and some of us actually go and seek out
how to get around these limitations, and that's what
we need to do better. When we acknowledge our
disability, new opportunities can open up.
Many other companies now have officers responsible
for accessibility to their products. Sony Corporation
was there and won an innovation award for their
Sony entertainment glasses. These closed caption
glasses allow people with hearing loss to improve
their experience at cinemas. Yahoo has an acces-
sibility team. Yahoo is a search engine website that
has become much more than that. They were honored
because they are making sure that all of their movies
and even movie trailers on their websites are
captioned. You can call the main offices of many
corporations and talk to the person in charge of
accessibility to offer your complaints, comments,
requests, or suggestions. You can get help with your
issues.
Do you want to hear well? You need to be wired for
sound. Wireless technology is involved with the
caption phone industry, being able to have Caption
Call or an iPad. You can be out in the desert of
Arizona and be able to talk effectively on the phone.
There are a number of things with your iPhone that
will allow you to hear better – allow you to train
yourself to hear and listen better.
The convention offered educational workshops
divided into different tracks such as Advocacy Issues,
Assistive and Other Technology, Employment,
Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants, Dating and
Relationships. It offered sessions for military service
members and veterans because one out of three
people who come back from battle service has
hearing problems.
There was a track on living our life, dealing with the
stress we have, learning how to cope with our hearing
loss and how to help others understand us and
communicate.
There was also a track for leaders in state and chapter
development and how to better run a state association
or local chapter like Fort Worth.
There was a track on cochlear implants and hearing
aids. The FDA is making changes with cochlear
implants. In the past, you had to have a 40% word
comprehension score or worse to qualify for a
cochlear implant. Now it’s changing to 60%. People
do better when they get an implant if they have some
residual hearing.
They had meetings for parents of children with
hearing loss. The FDA now recommends that
children be implanted before 12 months of age. In
that first year, if they can be implanted, they will
have normal quality of life that you would want for
every child. We have seen an example of that at one
of our chapter meetings.
Another device works with your residual hearing. It
is called a hybrid. It has fewer electrodes and uses the
Continued on next page
Convention Reflections, continued from page 3
hearing you have. It is a hybrid of a cochlear implant
and a hearing aid. They also talked about a direct
auditory brain stem implant. This is an implant for
people who don't have auditory nerve stimulation.
Telephone usage: Using hearing aids with the
telephone has improved tremendously. A lot of
people have frustration with telephones. In fact, it
ranks right up with trying to understand the
television.
Captioning and CART: I learned how rare this
commodity is, having Maribel sitting here and
captioning our meetings. Only one out of ten people
who begin a degree in court reporting actually finish
that degree and become court reporters. Of that one
out of ten, only one seventh can do what Maribel is
doing – CART – real-time transcription. That blew
my mind.
The National Captioning Institute has established
best practices and certification for TV captioning.
They've also created a mechanism to provide feed-
back on the accuracy of captions, the delay in
sending captioning out, the completeness and the
placement of captions. You can go to the website
www.captioningmatters.com and provide feedback
for what's happening in the broadcast industry.
We have made many friends over the years through
the HLAA annual meetings. We actually get to meet
all of our virtual friends and spend time with them.
It's really a lot of fun. Usually these conventions have
state organization meetings, so you get to meet other
people from Texas, like from San Antonio, Houston,
or Austin, and those are people that you might want
to be close to in the future.
You also get to meet the people that are actually
running the national HLAA. We got to speak to the
new executive director, who was appointed two or
three months ago. So you get to meet a lot of people,
but what is even more eye opening is seeing the
number of vendors in the hearing loss field, learning
about the tremendous amount of research that's going
on, and seeing the new products that are coming out
regularly.
I encourage you to put a priority on your bucket list
to attend one of these conferences. This thing is a big
deal. A couple thousand people were there. They
have general sessions; they have track sessions; and
they go from 8:00 o'clock in the morning to 8:00 or
9:00 at night. They have a big banquet where they
identify and award people in chapters who have done
excellent things. It is really worth your time to go,
and I encourage you to do so.
EDITORIAL
What Keeps Us Going? What keeps us going? Stories. Last month a fairly
new member said, “This chapter changed my life!”
She heard something at a meeting that empowered
her to get the help she needed to make her life better.
We hear comments and stories like hers often enough
to be reminded that the work we do is vital and
appreciated.
We make a difference in the lives of individuals and
families, and that’s what keeps us going. Knowing
that we have significantly improved someone’s
quality of life feeds our souls. It fans the flame of
desire to keep the chapter alive and working.
The Fort Worth Chapter has been meeting
continuously every month since March, 1990. Some
of us have been active participants and leaders the
entire time. Others joined later, added their contri-
butions, and either stayed with us or moved on.
Other chapters have come and gone, but thankfully,
the Fort Worth Chapter remains strong and growing.
We’ve had many great milestones in our 26 years of
service. We’ve also had times of discouragement and
despair, wondering if we could find or keep leaders
to carry on the work. Burnout has been a real threat.
What keeps us going are the reminders that it matters
to real people in real life situations. Thank you – for
being part of our lives, part of our chapter – learning,
growing, giving, and making a difference to other
participants.
Perhaps you can join us in doing more for others by
helping with a project or a health fair booth, serving
on a committee or as an officer. Some of us would
like to pass the torch to a new group of growing and
capable leaders. It’s a rewarding endeavor.
Look at our list of officers and committee chairs and
consider where you can help shoulder the load. We’ll
hold a chapter election this fall. We’re counting on
you. – Dan White, editor
Have You Tried the Listening System? You probably know about the loop listening system
at our monthly meetings. If you have telecoils in your
hearing aids or CI processor, you may have tried it
and experienced the difference it can make in
comprehending what’s being said. If you don’t have a
t-coil, you can try the new receivers donated by the
Sertoma Club of Fort Worth. It’s worth a try. You’ll
be amazed at how much better you can hear. Try it
The June program was so helpful that we are including a fuller transcript than usual in this issue. One of the auditory training methods was so simple, free, and useful that we have given further details of it on page 7. We encourage you to try it. – Editor HIGHLIGHTS OF JUNE 2016 PROGRAM:
Listening Training at Home: Workouts are Not Just for Your Abs Presented by Carol Cokely, Ph.D, Clinical Professor of Audiology at the University of Texas at Dallas
Edited from a transcription by Maribel Arredondo, CSR, and from Dr. Cokely’s PowerPoint presentation
Workouts are not just for your abs. If you want to
hear better and understand more, you need to
exercise your brain through auditory training –
letting your ear-to-brain relearn. If you have
hearing loss that's acquired or diminished over
time, your hearing system is different now than it
used to be, and you have to train your ears to do a
better job of picking out the important information.
That's work for your ears, it's work for your brain,
it's work for the ear-to-brain connection. Just like
that fellow with the abs, he probably wasn't always
that way; he had to work at it.
The Ear. You have hearing loss but you also have
residual hearing. You still can hear, but you can't
hear as well as you used to. We want to know what
you have, what you're capable of using, and how
much better can we make it. Even if you're doing
well, you can work to do better, and working to do
better usually means that you're not as tired at the
end of the day. Because you're training your ear-to-
brain connection and you're training how to pull
out the sound information and the auditory
information, it might be happening more
efficiently, so you won't have to work at it as hard
to understand.
The Brain. The brain is a very important
component here. Brain plasticity means the brain
changes. It can change to the good by training. You
can actually forge some newer connections, faster
connections.
You. This is a big part of the equation. Your own
personal motivation, your own abilities are a
tremendous part of trying to build a program that is
specific to you.
The Cochlea. Damage to the cochlea results in
hearing loss. Even if we can make things louder,
we can't always make things clearer, and part of
that is cochlear disruption. In real terms, this
means you do not hear soft sounds, do not
understand speech well, do not hear in noise, and
do not enjoy music as you did before.
The cochlea has a beautiful organization. The
processing of sound occurs because the cochlea is
organized by pitch, like a piano. Some parts are
devoted to low pitches, other parts are devoted to
mid pitches, and still other parts are devoted to
high pitches.
That beautiful organization in the inner ear also
happens up in the higher parts of the brain.
Hearing loss usually starts in the high pitches. That
part of the cochlea is damaged first, and the brain
is waiting for high pitched information, but it's not
getting it.
Untreated and Undertreated Hearing Loss. Only
one out of seven individuals with hearing loss do
something about it. That’s untreated hearing loss.
But of those who have done something about it,
many are undertreated. You made some great
steps. You have appropriate technology, you have
support systems, you may have a lot of residual
hearing, but even with your help, you are still
perhaps not functioning to the maximum. So we
call that undertreated.
Some people wait five years, 20 years, to do
something about it, and that's a long time for the
brain to miss that stimulation. So the brain starts to
restructure. Part of it was accustomed to receiving
high pitched information, but now it’s not being
stimulated. So it starts to adapt and starts to
welcome mid pitch information because that's
there. Your hearing is better in the mid pitches than
in the high pitches. So the brain reorganizes. That's
what we call plasticity. It is a change in the brain.
So after five years, seven years, ten years, maybe
someone is nudging you to do something about it,
or maybe you feel there is some tipping point, and
you realize your life is not as good as it could be,
and so you decide to do something about it. You
get the hearing aid and now you are getting some
of those high pitches, but it's been many years, and
your brain is not used to that, so the brain has to
restructure again.
Just because you put a hearing aid on doesn't mean
that it’s automatically going to foster the necessary
changes. This is where additional training may
help this reorganization happen more effectively.
You add the hearing aid and other activities that
can change the brain, and relearning also changes
the brain. You like to hear what you are used to
hearing and sometimes new sounds create
confusion and you have to work at it.
Systematic. Formal auditory training is a
systematic program of doing intentional listening
for a period of time every day or several times a
week over a long period of time.
The two basic philosophies or methods of auditory
training are analytic and synthetic. Analytic is
taking the very smallest pieces of speech and trying
to help train your brain to tell the difference, for
example, the difference between the S and F
sounds. That’s analytic training.
Synthetic training means pulling it all together.
So while it's important to do the little pieces, it's
extremely important to get the big picture. You
don't hear everything someone is saying, but it
doesn't mean you are unable to follow a
conversation. Your brain fills it in naturally.
However, with hearing loss, it's harder for your
brain to do that because you're getting less of the
information.
Adult Learning Theory. The truth about adult
learning is that nothing is going to happen for you
unless you are motivated. You have to be the
material driving force for you to do it. It has to be
practical and relevant for you to learn something,
and it has to be experiential most of the time. So
it's not just tied to facts.
Self-Efficacy. You have to be confident. You must
feel you can do it. I can't over-state how much your
confidence in your ability to do something matters
in whether you're going to learn it.
No one program or method is it. Research shows
there has to be a good match between the person
and the method, so that the motivation is
consistent, that the person feels I can do that, this is
a method I can do. If you think it looks too
complicated or looks too silly, you're not going to
do it. You're not going to be motivated. So self-
efficacy is extremely important.
Analytic and synthetic training are shown to be
effective, but not for everyone. A lot of people
have not shown improvement, and sometimes
people who listen to audio books do as well as
people who are listening to actual training
programs. That’s a mystery.
Auditory training programs to
consider:
LACE, Listening and Communication
Enhancement: a for-purchase program, online or
DVD, available to HLAA members at a discount.
Go to www.hearingloss.org.
– http://www.neurotone.com/lace-
interactive-listening-program
– http://www.neurotone.com/lace-
demonstration-download
– [LACE listening programs – select ->
FREE trial
– DVD; on-line, Home Edition CD-ROM
Seeing and Hearing Speech CD ROM:
www.sens.com/products/seeing-and-hearing-
speech-lessons
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab:
http://www.esl-lab.com/
Read My Quips: www.sensesynergy.com
Posit Science Brain Fitness System – Brain HQ: http://www.brainhq.com/
Communication Corner:
http://www.cochlear.com/us/communication-
corner
Discourse Tracking: Low-tech, face-to-face
practice with ongoing (connected) speech to
enhance auditory skills.
See page 7 for details on the Discourse Tracking
method.
Discourse Tracking for Auditory Training By Carol Cokely, Ph.D.
Discourse tracking is my favorite auditory training
programs because it's the most low tech one of all.
It's used to enhance auditory skills for ongoing
speech because that's how we work. Its emphasis is
on a verbatim response.
You have a partner who is the speaker. You and your
partner take out a magazine article that you like.
There is work ahead of time: counting the number of
words there are in the reading selection. The speaker
will read parts, chunk by chunk, and the job of the
listener is to repeat verbatim. You don't get a pass or
close enough. It's verbatim, like this:
Speaker (Raquel): Evening was descending –
Listener (Carol): Evening was descending.
Speaker: When I arrived at the immense –
Listener: When I arrived at this tent?
Speaker: When I arrived at the immense –
Listener: At the immense –
Speaker: White stone.
Listener: White stone.
So what happened there? She read chunk by chunk,
but she wouldn't let me go on until I got it exactly
right.
This is scored by words per minute. You have to time
it with a watch and say, “Go,” reading and repeating
for two minutes or three minutes. You count and say,
okay, that was, for example, 50 words per minute.
Now we're going to do this again with another set of
paragraphs. You do this time after time, and you
should see your words-per-minute count get higher
because you're able to process them better.
But also what is the speaker doing? When I started
missing things, what did she do? She enunciated; she
slowed down her speech. So not only are you training
your brain, but the speaker is learning how to
optimize to deliver the message. This is one of my
favorite programs.
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A Little Laugh
Two friends meet and exchange
greetings. Then Bob, who is hard of
hearing, says to John, “My whole life is
changed. I’m wearing a new hearing aid
that’s a marvel of the latest develop-
ments in electronic ingenuity. It cost me
$6,000, but it’s worth every penny.”
John says, “That’s great! What kind is it?”
Bob looks at his watch and says, “It’s a
quarter past ten.”
From “Do You Hear Me?” by Maxwell Schneider, as published in Wired For Sound, the newsletter
of the Albuquerque chapter of HLAA, May, 2016.