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HearingLoop.org is a
nonprofit informational website created and maintained by Hope
College psychology professor David
G. Myers and his assistant Kathryn
Brownson. Myers is a hard of hearing person, the son
of a hard of hearing mother who became completely deaf in her
later life, and the author of a memoir of his experiences with
hearing loss and hearing technologies (A
Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss, Yale University
Press, 2000). Royalties from A Quiet World are assigned
to a family foundation which, among other things, supports hearing
assistance initiatives, including this web site. (David Myers
has no financial interest, and never will, in any hearing assistance
company. He is a well-wisher to all companies that enable hearing
aid compatible assistive listening.) Myers' other books include
The
Pursuit of Happiness and Intuition:
Its Powers and Perils. He is married to Carol, the
creator and host of an informational website devoted to the
real Santa Claus,
St. Nicholas
(aka Saint
Nicholas).
This web site was designed by The
Image Group and is hosted by a place called Hope--Hope
College in Holland, Michigan. With its major college,
church, and public venues all becoming looped, Holland is
a model community in serving the needs of people with hearing
loss. It is also a pioneering community in meeting the needs
of those with mobility limitations. www.oneLINK.org
provides information about an initiative, pioneered at Hope
College and elsewhere in Holland, to create a national universal
frequency for allowing people in wheelchairs (as well as those
blind and on crutches) to open doors of public facilities
by a button-operated remote instead of having to find and
reach a push button.
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