Hearing Care Humor

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Kim Marie Nicols, MSW, MA has 40 years of experience in human services and educational programs working with individuals with hearing loss and is fluent in American Sign Language. She is currently employed as the Customer Relations Manager at Hearing Care Center, an audiological practice in Sharon, MA. She has also been a Middle School Counselor for deaf and hard of hearing students in an educational collaborative and a Case Manager at the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Her graduate education earned her degrees in Clinical Social Work with the Hearing Impaired at Boston College, and Educational Administration and Supervision in the Field of Deafness at California State University, Northridge. Workshop materials she has developed include "Laughing with Hearing Loss", "Hearing Loss should be a Laughing Matter: Humor in an Audiological Practice", “The Person Behind the Ear”, “Listen Up – Tips to Help You Hear Better”, and a disabilities awareness program curriculum on hearing loss which has been implemented in several Massachusetts elementary schools.