by Chelle Wyatt | Jun 26, 2026 | Books on Hearing Loss, Communication Practices, Communication with Family, deaf, Emotions, hearing loss, Hard of Hearing, Hearing Aids, Hearing Assistive Technology, Hearing Devices, Hearing Impaired, Hearing Loss, Hearing Loss How To, Limits for hearing loss, Lipreading, Public Advocacy, Self Advocacy
The book, 61 Days of Hearing Loss is built around four categories for hearing loss: technology, awareness, strategies and emotions. In the last post, we shared one day of strategies and another for awareness. In this post, we’ll share a day about technology and... 
by Chelle Wyatt | Dec 11, 2025 | Classes for Hearing Loss, Communication Access, Communication Practices, Communication with Family, Hearing Loss, Lipreading, Misconceptions, Self Advocacy, Speechreading
The first time I took a lipreading class in 2009 as a student, I didn’t see the benefits. Instead of giving me confidence and hope, it felt alien and out of my reach. I did not take the class again for another four years. The second class happened only because I... 
by Chelle Wyatt | Aug 26, 2025 | Communication Practices, Communication with Family, deaf, Hard of Hearing, Hearing Loss, Hearing Loss Hope, Lipreading, Self Advocacy, Speechreading
We practice our lipreading skills everyday with every conversation we have. As we know, the majority of lipreading skills are not the lip shapes. The strategies we use most are: Self advocacy so we can set our stage for better communication. It’s letting people know... 
by Chelle Wyatt | Jun 19, 2025 | Communication Access, Communication with Family, deaf, Hard of Hearing, Hearing Loss, Lipreading, Lipreading Concepts, Speechreading
In our last post for Hearing Loss LIVE! For Members, we mentioned syllables for lipreading. “Lipreading the short vowels are difficult. All we see is the drop in the jaw. The short vowels help create syllables and syllables play into lipreading too.” Let’s talk about... 
by | Aug 7, 2024 | Advocacy, Communication Access, Communication Practices, Communication with Family, Community Members, Connections, deaf, Hard of Hearing, Hearing Impaired, Hearing Loss, Hearing Loss Inclusion, Lipreading Concepts, Misconceptions, Self Advocacy, Shame/Stigma/Denial, Tribe, hearing loss, Vulnerability
We can be unapologetically Hard of Hearing with minor changes in habit. The biggest apologetic action we see from those with hearing loss is: “I’m sorry, I have hearing loss. Can you repeat that?” Are we sorry for ourselves or others? Why do we do that? Let’s... 
by | Feb 21, 2024 | Communication Access, Communication Practices, Communication with Family, Connections, Hard of Hearing, Hearing Devices, Hearing Loss
The 3 Golden Rules provide better communication outcomes for everyone with hearing loss. They improve communication if you have hearing aids, cochlear implants or no hearing devices. By following these simple rules, communication breakdowns would happen less often,... 