Tools to Enable Communication Partners

By Sharmi Albrechtsen

Our Senior Audiologist, Melanie Gregory, has recently published an article in the May 2011 issue of Hearing Journal. The article explores how tools can help audiologists describe a person's hearing loss in terms of the communication difficulties the patient may be experiencing with their communication partners. The term 'communication partner' was chosen over the more commonly used 'significant other' because it is more inclusive and does not assume that the hearing loss is just one person's problem. To read this fantastic article, please check it out here on the Hearing Journal website.