Veterans Across America Virtual Chapter Meeting
From Barriers to Breakthroughs: Empowering Employment Success with Hearing Loss
Four members of the HLAA Task Force for Accessible, Inclusive Employment share career insights and workplace strategies for people with hearing loss.
New Volume Control Standards for Hearing Aid Compatible Cellphones are Coming
Mobile phone makers have a new FCC deadline to implement Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC) volume control standards to help people with hearing loss.
Hearing Aid Battery Packaging—What You Should Know
Learn what’s behind the new hearing aid battery packaging, why many are frustrated and what you can do to help.
Music Performance with a Cochlear Implant
A professional musician in New York City for two decades, Jonathon Taylor retired early due to progressive hearing loss that could not be helped with hearing aids. After receiving a [...]
Better Hearing in the Workplace
Despite ADA protections, people with disabilities in general—and hearing loss specifically—remain at a disadvantage in the labor force.
All the World’s a Stage
HLAA is a member of the World Hearing Forum of the WHO. We like to think we’re part of the collective players on the world’s stage who make an impact. [...]
Cochlear Implants Changing Lives
Two long-time HLAA members and cochlear implant (CI) users, Lisa Yuan and Malik B. El-Amin, shared their stories with us in honor of International Cochlear Implant Day.
Google Maps Now Includes Hearing Loops
Having hearing loss requires us to think about how we will hear everywhere we go. This can be particularly challenging in public settings like places of worship, a meeting room, [...]
OTC Hearing Aids: Returns—a Key Piece of the Puzzle
You’re taking a first step to treating your hearing loss. Many people wait years to act, so we’re glad you’re addressing your hearing health! The new category of Over-the-Counter (OTC) [...]
We are ALL Accessibility Leaders
This January, HLAA was invited by the CTA Foundation to participate in the Accessibility Leaders Roundtable at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
From Rx to OTC
Drugs that make the jump from prescription to Over-the-Counter (OTC)—known as the “Rx-to-OTC switch”—go through a data-driven, scientifically robust evaluation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Medicines that make [...]