Technology

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.

October 7, 2025 by HLAA Communications

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.

September 9, 2025 by HLAA Communications

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 [...]

May 17, 2023 by HLAA Communications

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.

May 10, 2023 by HLAA Communications

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. [...]

February 27, 2023 by HLAA Communications

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.

February 22, 2023 by HLAA Communications

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, [...]

December 14, 2022 by HLAA Communications

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) [...]

August 22, 2022 by HLAA Communications

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.

February 8, 2022 by HLAA Communications

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 [...]

February 1, 2022 by HLAA Communications

Veterans Across America Virtual Chapter Meeting – Meet Chet Frith, Director of the VA Office of 508 Compliance