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<\/p>\nMore and more people are pushing back retirement, choosing to work into their golden years. With better health care translating to longer lifespans, that only makes sense \u2013 why sit around bored for 10-20 years when you could be bringing home a nice paycheck? But if you\u2019ve got hearing loss in San Francisco or Walnut Creek, your job performance might suffer. We have a few tips to ensure your impairment doesn\u2019t get the better of you.<\/p>\n
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Roughly one in five Bay Area adults has hearing loss<\/a>, and that number increases with age. If you are still in the workforce and dealing with a hearing impairment, you have your work cut out for you. Pun intended. Sure, the Americans With Disabilities Act was established to protect you from discrimination on the job, but if you have hearing loss your career may very well take a hit. The Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology published a\u00a0hearing loss study<\/a> in 2013 and found that employees with hearing loss earned nearly 25 percent less than their coworkers without a hearing disability. Even a mild hearing impairment can make you appear less competent than your peers and might convince your boss to choose another candidate for a promotion. Nothing about this is fair, but it\u2019s tough to enforce the law, especially since this type of discrimination is subtle and almost impossible to prove.<\/p>\n The results from a 2014\u00a0hearing loss survey of 1,500 full-time workers<\/a>\u00a0indicated that the biggest difficulties faced by hearing-impaired employees are:<\/p>\n\n