Hearing Life Magazine Summer 2025

Explore the exciting potential of Auracast for public listening, get workplace and air travel tips and see how HLAA empowers people in our nationwide community.

In this issue, we address the wide-ranging effects of hearing loss beyond your ears, from communication to confidence to connection, plus patient advocacy, disaster preparedness and public policy.

Our Fall/Winter Hearing Life magazine focuses on building and growing a hearing loss community. Read about a unique Girl Scout troop, the importance of connection for mental health, contributions from our nationwide network and more.

“Parenting with Hearing Loss” features one mother's journey with single-sided hearing loss, another mom's quest to support her son and advice from parents in HLAA's nationwide community.

This issue's technology theme provides a deep take on the latest hearing tech innovations, in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), Bluetooth, sound processing, automatic speech recognition (ASR), augmented reality (AR) and more.

Built around the theme of inclusion in hearing health, our fall issue highlights a range of challenges and solutions for providing services to patients in multicultural communities, overcoming language barriers, urban outreach innovations and more.

With its focus on "Back to School with Hearing Loss," this issue features strategies on supporting children and teens with hearing loss, including stories from parents and students and expert advice from a psychologist and single mom.

Read about a fascinating zero-gravity flight to test accessibility in space in our cover story, "Mission Possible: The Sky’s the Limit for Disability Inclusion," which features HLAA 2023 Convention keynote speaker, NASA engineer K. Renee Horton, Ph.D.

When 16-year-old Sophie Shapiro received advice from her new friends at HLAA about giving her hearing aids a chance, she found out what she’d been missing. Today, she serves as a hearing activist and advocate with a special focus on youth.