*This post was translated from Portuguese to English by Isabella Vitoria Ramalho This post is dedicated to all the people with profound deafness. On my second book, I wrote about profound deafness as a state of being down in the…
*This post was translated from Portuguese to English by Isabella Vitoria Ramalho This post is dedicated to all the people with profound deafness. On my second book, I wrote about profound deafness as a state of being down in the…
Are you ashamed of your hearing loss? Are you ashamed of wearing your hearing aids? Please, just stop! There’s no reason to feel ashamed about your hearing disability. 1,5 billion people have hearing loss worldwide. It’s very common, but people…
I am a deaf person who can hear with bilateral cochlear implants – after 30 years losing my hearing progressively. More than that, I am a deaf person who about ten years ago could barely hear a thing. This is…
“I lost my hearing. What now?” is very common question. It does not apply just to sudden hearing loss, but also to cases in which people finally admit to themselves they are deaf. When we suddenly lose our hearing, or…
My name is Luciano Moreira and I’m a a brazilian ENT surgeon. As some people know, my wife Paula Pfeifer is deaf. I met her soon after she got her first cochlear implant (now she has both implants), which made…
This is a letter to my mother about our journey through my progressive hearing loss. I started losing my hearing when I was 6. When I turned 31, I did my first cochlear implant. Less than two years later, she…
The beginning of a new love relationship can make anyone afraid. It can happen to anybody, but when we’re talking about people with hearing loss, things are far more complicated. I remember well the times when I was single and used…
If you are the mother of a deaf kid, I would love to give you some advice. I’m deaf myself. I was born hearing and I started losing my hearing capacity when I was six. Today, I’m 40 and I…
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