You and your ear (Season 6)

My people, I welcome you all to another delightful season of our health program ‘you and your ear’. An online platform designed to inform you on all you need to know about one of our most important body organ, The Ear and how to avoid hearing loss.
The topic for this episode is Communication Tips. During our last session, we highlighted various signs that will tell you that an older papa or mama is having hearing loss. Today, we will be discussing communication tips for those that have age related hearing loss.

If your doctor have told you that you have age related hearing loss or you know one who does, share these tips with him or her;
• Look at the face of the person talking to you.
• Do have light in front of you when speaking. This allows a person who is hearing impaired to observe facial expression, gestures, lip read and see body movements that provide communication clues.
• Turn off radio or television during conversation to avoid noise interference.
• The person you are conversing with should not chew or cover his face.
• You can ask him to speak slightly louder but not to shout. Shouting may distort speech. The person should speak at normal rate without exaggerating.
• In a more severe situation, it is important you ask for clue to the topic of discussion and let the person you are conversing with use simpler sentences and rephrase when necessary.
• Seat position in social gathering, restaurant etc. is very important. Seat away from noisy area and seat in such a way that you can see the four angles of the room without stress to enable you follow movement of the speaker without stress
• If you are using analogue hearing aid, always adjust it to suite your environment to enhance better hearing.
If your doctor confirms you have age related hearing loss, get hearing aid as stressing to hear will worsen your hearing.
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