{"id":75,"date":"2017-04-12T09:40:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T13:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/speech-hearing\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2019-07-19T12:23:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T16:23:44","slug":"8-signs-of-hearing-loss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/speech-hearing\/resources\/8-signs-of-hearing-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Signs of Hearing Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol class=\"signs\">\n<li><strong>You have trouble understanding others<br \/>\n<\/strong>You may be able to hear sounds, but not quite make out the words.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You have trouble hearing in noisy environments<br \/>\n<\/strong>Venues&nbsp;with multiple background noises, such as restaurants, can make hearing and understanding conversations difficult if you have hearing loss.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You have difficulty understanding women and children<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you have hearing loss, you may experience hearing or understanding words and speech patterns of women and children as both speak in higher pitches and softer tones.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You frequently swap ears when on the phone<\/strong><br \/>\nFrequent ear swapping and becoming &#8220;ear fatigued&#8221; may signal hearing loss.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You hear a &#8220;ringing&#8221; in your ears<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you have hearing loss, you may experience a ringing in theirs called tinnitus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You watch television too loudly for others<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re constantly needing to increase the volume, or others ask you to reduce the volume, you may require a hearing test.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You&#8217;re physically or mentally fatigued during conversations<\/strong><br \/>\nConcentrating to hear friends, family members, talk shows and music can fatigue those with hearing loss.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You&#8217;re often told you &#8220;mumble&#8221; or talk too loudly<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you have hearing loss, your overall perception of sound has changed &#8212; even your own speech and pronunciation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"parent":579,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-75","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/speech-hearing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/speech-hearing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/speech-hearing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/speech-hearing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/speech-hearing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/speech-hearing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/speech-hearing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/618"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/speech-hearing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/speech-hearing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}