033 - Shari Eberts & Matt Hay - Life with Hearing Loss during a Pandemic
Guests: Shari Eberts - Hearing Health Advocate, HLAA Board Member, & Founder of LivingWithHearingLoss.com; Matt Hay - Hearing Health Advocate & Director of Audiology Sales at Redux
Topic: Life with Hearing Loss during a Pandemic
Shari and Matt join Dave to walk through their individual journeys from when they first discovered they had hearing loss to becoming advocates and champions for hearing health.
Each share their perspectives on the challenges folks with hearing loss face as masks and zoom calls become normalized, and ways that we as a society can better accommodate for our large population of people with hearing loss.
In addition, the three chat about technology and ways that it has proved beneficial for the hearing loss community.
*Show Notes*
Matt's NPR/KQED Story: https://www.kqed.org/news/11383461/soundtrack-of-silence
Shari's Petition to Provide Free Captions for People with Hearing Loss on Video Conferencing Platforms: https://www.change.org/p/zoom-provide-free-captions-for-people-with-hearing-loss-on-video-conferencing-platforms?recruiter=359597240&recruited_by_id=be034850-4047-11e5-a8c6-c9230ac6254b&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=petition_dashboard