A ATLANTIC HEARING AID CENTER WISHES YOU A VERY HAPPY PRESIDENTS’ DAY!

15 Feb , 2016

DID YOU KNOW?

Six American Presidents have worn or wear hearing aids to rehabilitate their hearing issues:

Richard Nixon,

Gerald Ford,

Jimmy Carter,

Ronald Reagan,
(Ronald Reagan was fit with hearing aids while in office, and he was the first president to have done so).

George H. W. Bush,

and

Bill Clinton,

(Bill Clinton began wearing hearing aids during his second term in office).

The Clinton Foundation has been a major advocate in partnering with the Starkey Hearing Foundation to fit people all over the world with hearing technology. The Starkey Hearing Foundation is currently working to fit more than 1 million people with hearing aids over the next 10 years, and they are on track to exceed that number. Bill Clinton and members of the foundation have been on several trips to assist in this endeavor, as well as advocating for the cause in other ways.

George H. W. Bush, personally suffers from hearing loss and currently wears hearing aids. The elder Bush also signed into law the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, which afforded legal protection to people with hearing loss, among other disabilities.