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Oct 27

Phonak’s Audeo SMART Hearing Aid: Functionailty, Connectivity, Control

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Wearing a hearing aid can save your life.

Hearing loss, especially in a large, busy city, can negatively affect your ability to properly react to dangerous elements.

So why are people so hesitant to get hearing aids?

A variety of reasons:

>>Hearing aids can be bulky.

>>Hearing aids can be unseemly.

>>Hearing aids can be a hassle–where’s the guarantee that when it comes to a crowded party or loud restaurant? Will these hearing aids even work properly?

Enter the Audéo SMART, the world’s smallest hearing system with full wireless functionality.
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Oct 19

Combating Hearing Loss And Tinnitus: Hearing Aid And Maskers Combined

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More and more people are suffering from sensorineural hearing loss, and Tinnitus remains a common problem. Unfortunately, this means that a growing number of people are suffering from both. (more…)

Sep 22

Children’s Audiology: Diagnostic Signs An Infant Should See An Audiologist

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People often connect that being deaf or having a hearing problem are linked to the elderly. If you see any audiologist, they will be quickly dispel this myth and tell you through audiological research anyone can suffer from hearing loss. Sometime it is difficult to notice, though. An older person can let you know  if they have a hearing problem, but what about infants or young toddlers?
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Sep 17

Custom Hearing Aids: Buy Custom Or Mass-Produced?

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Hearing aids are like other medical products used to assist anyone who has a disability. To make a comparison,  you don’t always need a prescription from a doctor to buy your medicine and sometimes can get what your looking for over the counter–this is now happening in the world of hearing aids.

The question we need to really ask ourselves as well as other hearing professionals is, it a good idea to buy a hearing aid without having it properly  made to one’s degree of hearing loss? Anyone who gets a hearing aid or is thinking of getting one should first see an audiologist to see what the best option would be.
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Sep 15

Hearing Aid Technology: Cochlear Implants Help Combat Hearing Loss

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The way in which we hear is a rather complex system involving the smallest bones in the human body known as the  Stapes, but it also includes several small snail shaped object known as the cochlea. The cochlea are critical to the hearing process and if damaged can cause hearing loss–either mild or severe.

However, nowadays there is a cochlear implant surgery which can help improve your hearing significantly if you have a severe hearing loss. Let’s take a look  and see why cochlear implants can help those with profound hearing loss:
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Aug 31

The Neckloop, An Aid For Your Hearing Aid; More Than Just A Necklace

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So you’re travelling and brought your trusty hearing aid to help you out, but there is a problem. You go to the museum and hear the speakers describing an exhibition but at the same time you hear a lot of feedback–making it hard to understand what is going on.

There is a hearing aid accessory that’s a great tool to help you out with feedback–the neckloop.

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Aug 27

Hearing Aid Technology: The Telecoil

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So you just got your new hearing aid and its functioning great–you are hearing things that you haven’t heard in a very long time or ever before. Yet a question that you may have is why is it still a little difficult to hear conversations or sounds coming from your telephone or cellular phone?

Well, there is good news, your hearing aid has a special built-in feature that you may not have known about called the telecoil (aka t-coil). Telecoils were created to help in the use of phones for people who suffer hearing loss. Let’s take a look at some of the details:
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