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As a person who lives with hearing loss, and as the child of a mother who migrated from hard of hearing to complete deafness, David is commited to supporting and giving voice to the 31 million Americans who are invisibly challenged by hearing loss.
A Quiet World: Living With Hearing Loss (Yale University Press, 2000) is a journal of his experiences with hearing loss, interspersed with information about the psychology of hearing and new hearing technologies.
Hearing loop assistive listening
David's avocation is advocating "hearing aid compatible assistive listening"—assistive listening that broadcasts PA system, TV, and telephone sound directly to hearing aids, thus doubling their functionality. (His own community, Holland, Michigan is a national model of such, with most of its churches and public facilities now offering this affordable technology, and with other new installations—including the U. S. House of Representatives chamber—spreading the country.) To this end he has
Hearing Assistance Catalogs (phones/assistive listening, etc.)
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