A new communication card will help deaf and hard-of-hearing Ohioans communicate with law enforcement
Governor Mike DeWine announced the Ohio Department of Public Safety’s Traffic Safety Office (OTSO), Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities (OOD), and statewide law enforcement partners have developed a new communication card to help individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing exchange information with law enforcement. The new communication card can help individuals who are…
Universal live captioning coming from Apple
TechCrunch is reporting about new accessibility features coming from Apple later this year. Live captioning is among the most widely applicable new feature. With it, captions of spoken content from videos, podcasts, FaceTime, and other calls will appear in a speaker-specific scrolling transcript above the video windows. See the TechCrunch story here for more details….
El Deafo begins streaming January 7
Apple TV+ is streaming a new three-part animated series for kids and families called “El Deafo,” based on the autobiographical best-selling graphic memoir of Cece Bell. The story tells Bell’s experiences learning to cope with being hard of hearing. El Deafo follows young Cece as she loses her hearing but finds her inner superhero. Going…
What is Unilateral Hearing Loss?
What is Single Sided Deafness? Sometimes referred to as unilateral hearing loss, single sided deafness is a condition in which an individual experiences hearing loss in only one ear but can hear normally out of the other ear. While most patients with a hearing impairment suffer from bilateral (two-sided) hearing loss, SSD affects approximately 60,000…
What is Sudden Hearing Loss?
For most people who experience hearing loss, the condition comes on gradually over a period of years. In rare cases, an abrupt loss of hearing occurs with little or no warning. This condition is known as sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL). What is Sudden Deafness? Sudden deafness is an unexplained and rapid hearing loss that…
What is Noise Induced Hearing Loss?
How Can Sounds Hurt Your Ears? Background sound is a constant in our busy lives. Normally, background noises are at safe levels that do not negatively impact our hearing. But repeated exposure to noise above 85 decibels (dB) can cause noise induced hearing loss. The louder the sound, the less amount of time it takes…
Communication equity and inclusion
The ‘Dinner Table Syndrome’ phenomenon leaves deaf people out of the discourse. In a world of remote work, the problem is getting even worse. In November 2021, Hearing Speech + Deaf Center made a competitive pitch for grant funding for a Deaf Access Fund to give our deaf neighbors access to free sign language interpreting…
Enroll children birth to age 5 in Ohio Governor’s Imagination Library
Click here to enroll your children birth to age 5 in Ohio Governor’s Imagination Library. Ohio First Lady Fran DeWine first fell in love with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library when she saw its impact on some very special little ones: her grandchildren. Ohio First Lady, Fran DeWine, reading to young children. “I was visiting my…
Football champs
ESPN’s Sports Center produced this terrific clip about the California School for the Deaf, Riverside football Cubs. They may not have won the state’s high school football title but Cubs football won the hearts of millions with their pride, determination, and grit. By any measure, CSDR football enjoyed a historic season, reaching the state title…
3 studies link hearing loss with less physical activity among older adults
The information below can be found on the NIH website here. Do your parents have a baseline hearing test? Multiple studies link hearing loss to less physical activity in older adults. A baseline hearing test can be vital to seniors long-term health. Check out this report from the National Institute of Health. Older adults with…