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Hearing Life Magazine Fall/Winter 2025
Hearing Life Magazine
In this issue, we explore the potential of Auracast broadcast audio technology to transform the future of listening in public venues, from several perspectives. Get tips from workplace experts for navigating hearing loss on the job and planning ahead to make holiday air travel easier. Learn how HLAA has empowered members of our community, including veterans and a Nobel Peace Prize winning professor, to thrive with hearing loss.
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A Note from our Executive Director
By HLAA Executive Director Barbara Kelley
The Best Gifts are the Things We Do Together
View from the Board
By HLAA Board Chair Ira Rubenstein
Building a Movement
An Exciting Advancement: Navigating the Transition to Auracast
By Andrea Kaneb, Roxana Rotundo and Cheri Perazzoli
Auracast broadcast audio offers a new way of listening in public spaces that could be beneficial for everyone with or without hearing loss. Explore how this emerging technology may open the door to broader, clearer and more inclusive access to sound in a wide range of venues over the next few years.
From Barriers to Breakthroughs: Success with Hearing Loss in the Workplace
Four members of the HLAA Task Force for Accessible, Inclusive Employment share career insights and workplace strategies for people with hearing loss.
Tips for Holiday Air Travel with Hearing Loss
By HLAA Director of Public Policy Neil Snyder
Flying for the holidays? See our practical tips to ease your travel with hearing loss and ensure smoother, safer flights. Know your rights and discover a new way to report airline accessibility complaints to the Department of Transportation.
HLAA Voices: Empowering Stories from Our Community
Two HLAA community members on the east and west coasts are inspiring hundreds of people with their creative outreach projects.
How Veterans Are Conquering Hearing Loss
By HLAA Communications Specialist Teri Breier
Read the inspiring stories—and advice—of three military veterans with service-connected hearing loss who are HLAA Chapter leaders.
Walk4Hearing
Many thanks to our 2025 Walk4Hearing participants and volunteers on another successful year.
How HLAA and Assistive Listening Technology Helped a Professor with Hearing Loss
By Teri Breier
After Pace University professor, author and Nobel Peace Prize team winner Matthew B. Bolton suddenly lost his hearing in one ear, the HLAA New York City Chapter helped him advocate for two hearing loop installations.
HLAA 2026 Convention
And they’re off…to Louisville! See what’s in store and plan to join us in Kentucky, June 10-12.
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