Violet Benson always struggled to hear in her left ear, but it took her years to realize how big the problem was — and even longer to do something about it. The Daddy Issues meme account creator, ...

There’s a telling moment in poet Raymond Antrobus’s memoir, The Quiet Ear – his first book of prose – where he describes being told, aged six, that he is deaf. The doctor shows him a graph of the ...

Joanne Milne is a 40-year-old woman from Gateshead, England, born with Usher Syndrome, a rare and devastating genetic disorder that left her deaf since birth and blind since her twenties. Recently, ...

It’s music to our ears. Approximately 11 million people in the US consider themselves deaf or severely hard of hearing. No medications have been approved to treat hereditary hearing loss, but cochlear ...

Ken Schechter, a Navy Veteran, said he likely lost his hearing while stationed next to a three-inch gun mount or during small arms training without ear protection. He was diagnosed with hearing loss ...

When writer Raymond Antrobus was a child, he had a hard time making sense of the world around him. He struggled to hold conversations. He missed instructions from his teachers. He would get sent off ...

Violet Benson, creator of the popular "Daddy Issues" Instagram account, got her first hearing aid at 36. Now she's ready to talk about it. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: courtesy of Violet ...