My Hearing Journey
The Beginning May is Speech and Hearing Month in Canada. I am one of 9% of Canadians aged 20 to 39 with audiometrically measured hearing loss. This means that in January of 2020, I went for my first hearing test, and as I often joke, I “failed” my Audiogram. According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the audiogram is a graph showing the results of a pure-tone hearing test. It will show how loud sounds need to be at different frequencies for you to hear them. The audiogram shows the type, degree, and configuration of hearing loss. Audiograms are an important part of a hearing test, but moving on. I noticed many years that a co-worker who would constantly lean over my desk to whisper the latest gossip to me was one of the hardest parts of my day. I almost never knew what she was trying to communicate to me. After many, many months of me smiling and nodding - I noticed other people standing beside me could hear this coworker just fine (that or they to were faking it)....