- Date
- 2001-01
- Kind
- Announcement
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- healthcarecommunicationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
In a January 2001 editor’s column, Chuck Hooker apologized for communication difficulties related to his hearing loss and announced that new hearing assistance was forthcoming. He credited family, friends, and the Veterans Administration with helping arrange a tuneable hearing aid and speaker-phone.
Evidence limits
This is a first-person newspaper account of communication and planned assistive equipment; it is not a clinical record and does not document the devices’ later installation or performance.
Sources
- Editor and publisher Chuck Hooker describes one ear as totally deaf and his aided hearing as poor, apologizes for the resulting communication difficulties, and says family, friends, and the Veterans Administration helped him arrange a tuneable hearing aid and speaker-phone. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2001-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the editor’s first-person column.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2001-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon editor announces new hearing assistance and apologizes for communication difficulties in January 2001”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-editor-hearing-assistance-apology-january-2001/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 2001, “How’s that again?” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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