| Once in a while, this lady executive would hear | | | | presbycusis wouldn't be able to receive much help |
| mumbles because a medical condition caused her to | | | | from the use of a hearing aid. |
| be deaf in her left ear. Only when she found she could | | | | Trouble becomes more apparent in settings that have |
| barely make out what others were saying did she | | | | background noise. Thinking that they have inabilities |
| think of asking for help. This park manager eventually | | | | preventing them from competing with younger |
| ended up as an enrollee at the Central Institute for the | | | | colleagues, they detach themselves from others and |
| Deaf's program for mouth lip reading. This program is | | | | become gloomy. |
| designed for executives who are still very much active | | | | The society we are in continues to grow noisier. The |
| yet dealing with age related hearing loss. | | | | ambient noise that we're exposed to is causing more |
| An audiolist claims that when you get older, your ability | | | | significant hearing loss, and hearing loss is showing up |
| to translate sound is lost, resulting in you not being able | | | | at an earlier age. Now the number one disability in the |
| to understand others. For the lady executive, whose | | | | United States, hearing impairment affects about 28 |
| hearing in her right ear was unaffected, the program | | | | million Americans. One in four adults becomes |
| was a form of preventive maintenance. | | | | permanently impaired by the time he reaches 66. |
| Communicating through speaking is crucial to the | | | | It is the hope of the institute that their program give |
| careers of a lot of people. Once a week for four | | | | people a chance at a happier life. Feelings of being |
| weeks, a maximum of four students meet up for one | | | | young and sharp are experienced by those who |
| hour receiving one on one attention from the | | | | trained in focused communication. Program participants |
| instructors. | | | | should exercise their lip reading skills when they are |
| Half of the class time is devoted to video watching as | | | | around other people. Some even watch TV without |
| a means of enhancing lip reading skills. An | | | | turning up the volume. |
| expressionless woman in the video mouths words, | | | | Four weeks is not enough to make them great lip |
| encouraging them to figure out what is being said. | | | | readers. They will be motivated by the difficulty of lip |
| Some observe how she forms the words with her | | | | reading to turn also to other ways of aid for their |
| mouth and imitate her. In case students really don't | | | | hearing problems. Because of this, the students learn |
| know the answer, they can opt to have the sentence | | | | to improve their hearing also during the second half of |
| rephrased or ask for a clue. These are handy tricks | | | | the class. |
| you should know in lip reading. | | | | Reserving a front row seat for a seminar can be |
| Otherwise known as presbycusis, age related hearing | | | | done, for example. The real reason for why it's |
| loss happens when the inner loses its ability to transmit | | | | reserved will not be known. Weekend sessions and |
| sounds. People lose the high pitched sounds first. | | | | more accommodations are in the list of hopes of |
| Mumbling people onscreen is the first thing they'll | | | | these institutes. |
| complain of when they watch TV. Those with | | | | |