HLAA Hosts Webchat with Dr. Mark Ross

Posted on: July 30, 2009

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July 30, 2009

As part of its ongoing series of live moderated chats, the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) is hosting a Webchat with Mark Ross, PhD, the recipient of HLAA's Lifetime Achievement Award, on August 20 at 9 pm.

The topic of discussion will be "What should I expect from my audiologist or hearing instrument specialist?" To submit questions for Dr. Ross and/or participate in the Webchat, visit www.myhearingloss.org and click on the schedule link on the right-hand side of the site.

Dr. Ross received his BA and MA from Brooklyn College in 1957 and l958 and his PhD from Stanford University in l962. He is a professor emeritus in audiology at the University of Connecticut, and has also worked as a clinical audiologist, a director of a school for the deaf and as director of research and training at the NY League for the Hard of Hearing. He is currently serving as a consultant to the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center at Gallaudet University.

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dr ross, on another note...are u aware of any studies in the past decade that demonstrate the degree/perentage to which ALDs are malfunctioning or are distorted in our regular classrooms that include at least 1 child with hearing loss?

ellen rhoades, consultant	July 25, 2010
Ft Lauderdale, FL

Hello Dr Ross,
I read with interest your articles regarding your experiences before and after your CI surgery. I have talked, via email, with many CI users; however, you are the only one who seems to have experienced hearing loss similar to my own experiences. I am 54 and started wearing hearing aids at age 19, so you see, I’ve progressively lost my hearing over time, as I think you have too. I’m at the crossroads where my hearing aids are ‘maxed’ out…I hear but cannot understand speech very well. My wife repeats just about everything she says and if any other noise in the house, I just as well forget it. I’m considering the CI but honestly, I’m scared! We can communicate at home alone and from what I’ve read, I’m confused just what to expect from the CI. Since I do have some hearing (with hearing aid), I’m afraid the CI might not help and since there’s no going back to hearing aids, it’s just almost too scary. I know everyone is different, but do you think I should wait until I get nearly nothing from my hearing aid or is now the time to get the CI? As you said in your article, you have to have realistic expectations, but like you, I want something fantastic to happen. I want to be able to enjoy the theater and movies. Since it’s been a while since you had your CI done, where are you now with your hearing? Are you able to hear in noise/wind/etc and understand speech? Is it better than when you wore hearing aids? If I can just sit and have conversation with my wife w/out all the repeating, it’d be well worth it to me…can I expect that much? I’m about to contact a surgeon for a consultation. If you can offer any advice as to what to ask or what to look for in a surgeon or anything I need to look out for, I’d truly appreciate it.
Thank you for your time.

Doug	January 15, 2010
MO

Dr. Ross - I'm retired from NYSp and was in the army artilliary. At 73 I have severe hearing loss and do my best to correct it by any means necessary. I have an excellent audiologist Sue Weinstein who is with ENT & Allergy Assoc. in White Plains NY.-- I'm atr a point now where I'm trying to find a "Hand held'directional microphone that would be asttached to a body worn pick up thaT EITHER WOULD GO TO HEADPHONES OR TRANSMIT via t-set up to my hearing aids. Any help on my finding this mic would be much appreciated RICH

Richard Scholer	November 20, 2009
Armonk, NY

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