# 🧏 HEARING Philips HearLink 9050 = Oticon Intent Hearing / Sound Speech-first processing: Noise reduction, aggressive compression, and directionality are great for conversation in noise. On music, they can flatten dynamics, smear transients (like drum hits), or dull reverberation. Dynamic range squeeze: Music swings from whisper-quiet to thunder-loud. If compression is too strong (or attack/release too fast), instruments pump and vocals lose nuance. Feedback cancellation artifacts: Feedback managers that continuously adapt can misinterpret sustained notes (violin, organ) as feedback and warble or detune the sound. About 15.5% of American adults 18 years and over, or 40 million people, have trouble hearing. 28 million Americans suffer from some level of hearing loss, accounting for about 10 percent of the U.S. population. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3665209/ https://hearingacademy.org/articles/music-with-hearing-aids/ https://iowaprotocols.medicine.uiowa.edu/protocols/hearing-aid-ha-and-music-limitations-and-problem-solving-strategies ASL Meredith https://courses.aslmeredith.com/courses/enrolled/167279? Gallaudet University - Center for Continuing Studies http://www.gallaudet.edu/ccs.html DC Public Library http://dclibrary.org/services/lbph Deaf Again (book) - culture ASL, classifiers, fingerspelling, and gestures https://www.gallaudet.edu/asl-connect/ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/07/16/arts/kamala-harris-name-sign-language.html How to learn sign language: 9 apps and resources to teach yourself ASL https://mashable.com/article/how-to-sign/ Gallaudet U ASL Connect - Sign by Topics https://gallaudet.edu/asl-connect/topics/ First 100 Signs: American Sign Language (ASL) http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/concepts.htm Washington D.C .Metropolitan Area ASLClasses http://www3.gallaudet.edu/Documents/Clerc/SignClasses-DCMetroArea.pdf facial expressions are a critical part of sign language Emergent ASL https://www.instagram.com/thefamilyvocab/ Most Annoying Questions for Deaf People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuCx5N5VAZk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity_in_American_Sign_Language According to expert Trudy Suggs, the third most used language in the United States is now very likely American Sign Language. People who communicate via American Sign Language can have accents just as they would in a spoken language.