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How to ask for accommodations when you haven’t disclosed your hearing loss at work?

It’s a situation that many people with hearing loss truly understand. The secret is that you have a hearing loss and never disclosed it. Disclosing it could cost you your job, your livelihood and your life. But lately, your hearing loss is getting worse. Even with the new hearing aids, your hearing isn’t improving. You’ve […]

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Managing Your Hearing Loss in the Workplace

Workplace / Eyra Abraham

There’s one thing that a company needs to have to enable a person with hearing loss in the workplace to thrive. That is a work culture that includes everyone’s differences and captures and understands the value of every hire. Stigma and biases make it difficult for people with hearing loss to even begin to get

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Best Stethoscope for Hard of Hearing | Amplified Stethoscope

Stethoscope, The Best, The Best - For Work, Work, Workplace / Eyra Abraham

For the longest time, Trevor wanted to be a nurse in a rewarding profession he’d dreamed about since he was a kid. But he has a test to complete in his upcoming vital session in a couple of weeks. He will need to complete an assessment of listening to sounds from the heart to assess

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Solutions for the New Hybrid Workplace: A Comeback for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Workplace / Eyra Abraham

The typical office days are over. When she used to walk into the office pre-pandemic, Divya would find herself not hearing the conversations around her well. As she entered the coffee room, she observed the watercooler chats. Equally, as she sat waiting for a meeting in the boardroom to start, chatter among her colleagues would

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This pandemic is making me lose my job.

Ask Lisnen, Workplace / Eyra Abraham

There’s a lesson we are to learn right now, and that’s to self-advocate. Dear Lisnen, Ever since COVID-19 came, it has been ruining my life. I started a new job early this year, and at work, all my coworkers wear face masks, but with the background noises and the muffled sounds coming from their mouths, I’m

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