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When assistive technology fails during life's most important moments

My hearing aids died during my daughter's wedding ceremony and I missed her vows completely, and now I keep lying to everyone about how beautiful it was when all I saw were moving mouths.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between appearing present and actually being present creates a profound isolation that compounds the original loss.

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