Hearing aids are expensive. Hearing aids are also incredibly important – lifesaving. Considering these two facts, it’s no surprise that people want the best out of their hearing aids. The best value. The best performance. The best hearing aid accessories available.
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You’ve taken your audiologist’s advice and gotten a hearing aid.
You’ve stored your batteries to ensure it’s working properly.
What else is there to do?
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With all of the fascinating technology being developed on a near-daily basis, hearing aids seem – and have become – thoroughly modern devices. However, the history of hearing aids stretches back several decades, to a brilliant physicist and author named Harvey Fletcher.
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Hearing loss has a variety of negative impacts for it’s sufferer.
One common one is impairment that results in inability to distinguish high-frequency sounds. Traditionally, the greater the hearing loss, the more gain needs to be applied at that frequency. However, for some people, hearing sensitivity is so poor in the high frequencies that it is not possible to provide sufficient gain and achieve audibility. In many cases, the gain is limited by acoustic feedback or by discomfort, resulting from excessive loudness. Cochlear damage renders these sorts of frequency problems with hearing:
>>An inability to recognize certain speech sounds
>>Difficulty distinguishing high-pitched background sounds–like bird chirps and songs
We already knew that hearing aids had great personal benefits. The right hearing aid can not only help your conversations run smoothly, it can save your life.
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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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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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The world is going “digital” and everything in technology we use comprises of some sort of internal computerized system. Hearing aids are no exception. Within the last five years, digital hearing aids have become the dominant hearing aid available on the market today. Interestingly enough, the first digital hearing aids were introduced in the late 1980’s, but failed because there were still too many flaws and required very big, unsightly batteries that drained quickly. Fortunately, the technology has progressed and now they come in all style from behind the ear hearing aids to in the canal hearing aids. Exactly how though does the digital hearing aid work? Let’s take a brief look at the step by step process:
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There are two types of hearing aids: analog and digital, but today I am going to focus on analog hearing aids.
Like any hearing aid, analog hearing aids come in many different styles and sizes–from behind the ear to inside the canal hearing aids.
Hearing loss can be difficult to bear at first, no matter its 