Get their attention first. Say your loved one\u2019s name, or wait until they’re looking, before you start the sentence. The brain needs a beat to switch into listening mode.<\/p>\n
Face them. Visual cues help. When a patient’s kids tease that he’s reading lips, Gural-Toth tells them: “He’s reading my lips\u2014but that’s a good thing.”<\/p>\n
Rephrase, don’t just repeat. If a word isn’t landing, swap it for another rather than saying the same thing louder.<\/p>\n
Kill the competing noise. Turn off the TV, and don’t try to hold a conversation from another room. Move closer.<\/p>\n
Give them a second to process. Before repeating yourself, pause\u2014people with hearing loss often need a beat longer to assemble what they heard, and they’ll frequently get there on their own. “Our brain just takes a little longer to put those pieces together,” Lundstrom says. When something does drop out, repeat just the part they missed rather than the whole sentence.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get their attention first. Say your loved one\u2019s name, or wait until they’re looking, before you start the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[777,103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-525080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-evergreen","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}