Many people are surprised to learn that it can take awhile to get used to hearing aids, especially if you’ve never worn them before. Along with learning how they work, you’re also grappling with all the new sounds and stimuli that your brain has forgotten about in recent years. Your hearing care professional will be an important… Read More »
What’s the number one complaint hearing care professionals hear from their new patients with hearing loss? Ask them and they’ll likely say it’s, “I can hear, but I can’t understand.” If this is what you’re experiencing, you may have hearing loss. Hearing loss involves not only the ears, but also the brain where sound is translated… Read More »
Maintaining the health of your hearing is very important to the quality of your daily life. Being able to hear things clearly is something many of us rely on without thinking about it very much at all. The time to prevent hearing loss and keep your hearing health as good as possible is before you… Read More »
Edith Veitch, now 17, was 10 when an audiologist diagnosed her hearing loss and fitted her with aids. Edith and her mother, Margo. Edith has arare disease that causes hearing loss. Her mother, Margo, a community college instructor in Illinois, is unsure when the hearing loss set in. “We don’t have [hearing loss] in the… Read More »
For many of us, summer fun includes splashing in the nearest body of water. But what happens when our desire to cool off in the water leads to a painful swimmer’s ear or even temporary hearing loss? It happens more often than you might think. What is swimmer’s ear? Swimmer’s ear strikes children more oftenthan adults.… Read More »
Since the advent of the hearing trumpet in the 18th century, hearing care professionals have been searching for the best way to funnel sound directly to the inner ear of a person who has hearing loss. As a result, hearing devices have become smaller and more effective at delivering amplified sound to the auditory system… Read More »