Friday, May 15, 2026
May Is National Speech-Language-Hearing Month... When Did You Last Have Your Hearing Checked?
For years, Melissa Musgrove kept asking the people around her to speak up. "I wanted to tell my young adult children to speak up and articulate," said the North Alabama resident. She had been asking people to repeat themselves, chalking it up to mumbling or background noise... never connecting the dots. Then her son pulled her aside with a gentle observation: "Mom, you might have a hearing loss." "He said it with such kindness and compassion," Musgrove recalled. "So I paid attention." Her story is one