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If you have hearing loss and love social media, you’ll be pleased to hear the latest news. Twitter recently introduced closed captions for videos on your timeline. You can now access the toggle feature from any device to turn captions on or off. Twitter Introduces Closed Captions Option On June 23, Twitter introduced a closed […]

Jacob Landis’ hearing loss has affected him in many ways. The isolation he experienced growing up with hearing loss led to depression and drug addiction as a teenager. Then, he took a journey he called “Jacob’s Ride,” in which he rode his bike to all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums to raise money for cochlear

Season 17 of “America’s Got Talent” kicked off at the end of May, 2022. After being inspired by other deaf contestants, deaf comedian Hayden Kristal (they/them/theirs) announced that they wanted to “pursue this for [themselves].” Kristal is now a quarterfinalist after performing a wickedly funny story on episode three of this season’s AGT. Multitalented Deaf

Steven McCoy has made history as the first Black DeafBlind journalist. He transformed his struggles into a passion to bring awareness to disabilities and overlooked populations. Steven McCoy’s Journey Steven McCoy — born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, where he still lives — lost his hearing and started wearing hearing aids around the age of

A child of an audiologist has recently published a children’s book on hearing loss called Leo’s Magic Ears. Anushka Gupta — a high school freshman — is both the author and illustrator of this uplifting book.  Inspiration for Children’s Book on Hearing Loss As the daughter of an audiologist, 14-year-old Anushka Gupta was inspired by her

Grammy award winning British rock band Coldplay’s concerts are now more accessible for the deaf community. Coldplay’s Concerts Now More Accessible for the Deaf Community The World Tour is called Music of the Spheres. Coldplay’s concerts are now more accessible for the deaf community. On the band’s website, they announced, “We want our concerts to

The National Research Group (NRG) and the Deaf West Theater recently released a groundbreaking report on Deaf representation in the entertainment industry. It includes suggestions how to be more inclusive. Methodology When CODA won the Academy Award for Best Picture with a predominantly Deaf cast in February of 2022, it inspired this study to analyze

Lack of captioning at the Sundance Film Festival made headlines this week after Academy Award-winning juror Marlee Matlin and her colleagues walked out of a film premiere. Matlin and two other jurors, Jeremy O. Harris and Eliza Hittman, collectively walked out of the film “Magazine Dreams” on Friday because there was not adequate captioning for

Samantha Baines is a deaf performer, activist, and author in the UK. Hearing Like Me had the chance to talk with her about her upcoming book. The Deaf Performer, Activist, and Author’s Deafness Samantha Baines, Phonak hEARo and a deaf performer, activist, and author, has hearing loss in both ears. She chooses to only wear a

Experiencing music is a personal experience for everyone. The type of music you listen to, how you listen to it and where you listen to it can all affect your personal relationship to music. Listening to music as a cochlear implant user gives an additional dimension of sound and auditory processing that further personalizes the