Tools

If you prefer video formats, I talk about some of the options below at my TikTok @thegrannyjan or YouTube at Safe Sound Science with Granny Jan. For a change of pace, check out my Messed Up Storytime with Granny Jan where you can choose between poems, funny stories, and scary sweary horror tales.

Developed by Jan Mayes, MSc (retired audiologist)

These educational handouts, worksheets, and other links are mainly pdf documents shared from Jan’s public google drive.

Handout: Tinnitus & Hyperacusis Coping Toolbox

Worksheet: Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Toolbox Planning

Handout: Suggestions for Quiet Supporters

Example Child-Teen Personal Listening Agreement

Tinnitus & Hyperacusis Severity Surveys (including tinnitus-hyperacusis visual analog scales from my books and 10 item Screening Tinnitus Handicap Inventory)

Hearing Healthcare Clinic Guidelines for Tinnitus & Hyperacusis

When Hearing Aids Don’t Work

Tinnitus & Hearing Loss Simulations

Building a Hearing Protection Toolkit: Tinnitus Today, Issuu pg 48-49.

Online Resources

This is an info share. I can’t recommend or endorse specific companies or sources. These links to free online resources include research, coping information, peer support, prevention, and social media communities, mainly related to tinnitus and decreased sound tolerance. This includes pain (hyperacusis), dislike or hate (misophonia), and fear (phonophobia) of everyday sounds that don’t affect people with typical hearing health.

If you are having a crisis needing urgent help, please contact your local emergency services.

Self-Help

Check Your Hearing (hearWHO app)

HeardThat (app free trial offering better speech understanding in background noise)

Hyperacusis Activities Treatment (University of Iowa, Department of Otolaryngology)

Hyperacusis: How You Can Help Yourself (The Hearing Journal, 2024)

Over the Counter Hearing Aids Resource Centre (Speech-Language & Audiology Canada)

Progressive Tinnitus (and Hyperacusis) Management Program (National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research)

SoundPrint: Find Your Quiet Place

Take on Tinnitus e-learning portal (Tinnitus UK)

Tinnitus Activity Treatment (University of Iowa, Department of Otolaryngology)

Tinnitus & Hearing Survey (National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research)

Tinnitus First Aid Kit (IDA Institute and Tinnitus UK)

Tinnitus: Healing From Home (The Hearing Journal, 2022)

Tinnitus Infographic by Producer Hive (Note prevention should include well-fit hearing protection)

Tinnitus (Hyperacusis) Retraining Therapy Exercises

Resources for Healthcare Providers

Clinical Practice Guidelines for General Practitioners (Tinnitus UK)

Clinical Practice Guidelines: Tinnitus (American Academy of Otolaryngology)

Hyperacusis-Tinnitus Activities Treatment (University of Iowa, Department of Otolaryngology)

Over the Counter Hearing Aids Resource Centre (Speech-Language & Audiology Canada)

Patient Handout Tinnitus: Healing From Home (The Hearing Journal, 2022)

Progressive Tinnitus Management Clinician Resources (National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research)

Tinnitus Care Decision Aid (Tinnitus UK)

Tinnitus & Hearing Survey (National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research)

Tinnitus-Hyperacusis Distress or Severity Scales share by Jan Mayes: tinnitus/hyperacusis visual analog scales from my books and screening 10 question Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (pdf)