Hearing Loss Association of America | Boston Chapter

Tap into the Abilities of People with Disabilities: The Case of Employees with Hearing Loss

Date & Time: May 21, 2024, 3:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM PT

Join us for our 2024 College of Business Thought Leadership Series live event, “Tap into the Abilities of People with Disabilities: The Case of Employees with Hearing Loss,” with David Baldridge, the Toomey Faculty Fellow and Professor of Management in the College of Business at Oregon State University

People with disabilities remain underemployed and marginalized in organizations and society. Professor Baldridge’s research examines the workplace experiences of people with disabilities with an emphasis on accommodation and career success among people with hearing loss. Professor Baldridge will provide a brief overview of current employment data for people with disabilities, explain his research in this area including diversity among people with disabilities, and provide practical implications for employees with hearing loss as well as their employers, supervisors, coworkers and allies.

To register – https://beav.es/c9f

Watch this!

For most of us, it is not a matter of if but when we will lose some of our hearing. Yet, we do not give hearing loss or hearing aids much thought until it happens to us or someone we love. It is then that we find out that hearing aids are incapable of restoring hearing to normal, especially in acoustically challenging situations.

The good news is that modern technology continues to bring us new, sometimes hidden, and often unknown features that can help those with hearing loss overcome more of their hearing challenges.

In this TED TALK,  Juliëtte Sterkens, AuD, an audiologist with forty years of experience in hearing rehabilitation turned consumer advocate with the Hearing Loss Association of America, clearly describes the challenges of hearing aids and what people with hearing loss can do to supplement their effectiveness.