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Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser

Teresa Barnes: How to Connect with Hearing-Impaired People

Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser

Dr. Ron Kaiser

Rejuvenate, Age, Aging, Fitness & Nutrition, Mental, Self-help, Gym, Doctor, Health, Fitness, Emotional Health

5.0 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Across the United States, there are 65 million people with hearing loss. This means, 1 in 5 persons have this disability.


Hearing is our first sense, our last sense, our quickest sense, and our social sense so we want to keep it as active as we can, for the longest period of our life.


In today’s episode, Teresa talks about how the millennials can help taking the stigma away from hearing impaired, and let those people who have it, function fully and completely. She explains the different categories of the hearing disability, what we can do to avoid it – if we’re not born with it – and how it feels to be in a deaf person’s shoes.


Teresa Barnes is the founder of HearCommunication – a business educational company, with the aim of helping businesses connect with the hearing impaired. Teresa has had 50% hearing loss since birth and she understands the challenges, professionally, as a former emergency room nurse manager and critical care nurse.


She’s the author of Sound Advice: Tune into Listening and the patent owner of the Hearing Friendly Decal, which will soon be a national symbol for those who are hard of hearing.


Listen to Episode 22 of Rejuvenaging, to learn all about the impact of her work and how she helps businesses accommodate people who have a hearing disability.


Questions I ask:

  • What is hearing impaired? (02:19)
  • If somebody is a really motivated employer, but just doesn’t have the experience with this stuff, what do you actually do? How do you help them to accommodate people who have hearing loss? (06:31)
  • Do most hearing-impaired people wear or need to wear hearing aids? (10:31)
  • What determined you to make this your passion in your life? (25:35)


In this episode, you will learn:

  • About the categories of people that can help you get your hearing tested. (13:15)
  • The reason why hearing aids costs are high. (14:51)
  • The food we eat can influence our hearing. (17:56)
  • What parents should do if they have a hearing-impaired child. (24:47)


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0:00.0

Welcome to Retrovenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser.

0:23.3

This is the podcast designed to help you live enthusiastically today and tomorrow and

0:29.5

every other day of your life. I'm your host Dr. Ron Kaiser. I'm a positive health

0:34.8

psychologist and also author of the best-selling and award-winning book,

0:39.6

Rejuvenaging, the Arton Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm. My website is

0:46.5

www.thementalhealthjum. I am always happy to hear from you with your thoughts and

0:54.1

suggestions both in the general mental health area and the rejuvenaging area and

0:59.4

even with suggestions for future podcasts. As those of you who have listened

1:04.9

before know that many of our guests are really people who live their lives with

1:10.6

enthusiasm and have guidance to help us do so in the most effective way so that

1:16.8

we can be the best version of ourselves. Today's guest is no exception. We're

1:22.4

happy to bring to you Teresa Barnes who is a registered nurse and the

1:27.5

principal of Hear Communication and Educational Company that helps connect

1:33.5

businesses with the hearing impaired. She's the author of Sound Advice, Tune

1:39.6

into Listening, Really Great Book and she's the patent owner of the hearing

1:45.0

Friendly Decal which will soon be a national symbol for those who are hard of

1:50.4

hearing. Teresa, thanks very much for joining us on the Rejuvenaging Podcast. We're

1:56.1

so happy to have you with us. Thank you Dr. Ron. Let's get started. Do you have a

2:02.6

topic that I know is of interest to many many people and I guess maybe the

2:07.6

first thing we should do is get the definition you know because I know when we

2:12.9

get into the hearing area there are different categories and so I'm just

2:18.5

wondering what is hearing impaired is that? Deaf is it partial hearing loss? What

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