If you have hearing loss it is important to act and seek treatment. The most popular and effective method for addressing hearing loss is hearing aids, which electronically amplify sounds you can’t quite decipher on your own. While these devices are incredibly helpful, assistive listening devices (ALDs) go the extra mile to help you hear your best in specific situations. …
A Guide to Buying Hearing Aids
Choosing to invest in your hearing health is a brave and wise choice. Congratulations on taking the first steps to find more ease in hearing and embracing the full vibrancy of life. Acknowledging hearing loss can be challenging — it’s a difficult condition to self-diagnose — and working with a hearing specialist you trust will help you with these next …
Household Items That Could Damage Your Hearing
Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is on the rise again amongst the members of Gen-Z. In the latter half of the 20th century, regulations were put in place to ensure that employers provided safe work environments and provided hearing protection for those who worked around noise. This situation led to a decrease in NIHL by the early 2000s, but now we …
October is Protect Your Hearing Month
This month is all about protecting your hearing health! October marks Protect Your Hearing Month which aims to raise awareness about hearing loss, one of the most common medical conditions people live with today. Impacting over 48 million people, hearing loss has multifaceted effects that can take a toll on daily living. More people are at greater risk of developing …
Introducing new Pure Charge&Go AX hearing aids with Augmented Focus™ technology.
Hearing aid technology and design is constantly evolving. But every so often, a breakthrough changes everything. In the case of new Augmented Focus™ technology, it’s the clear, organized way sounds are delivered. Typical hearing aids process all sounds the same way, so the conversation in front of you and the background noise that fills the rest of the room compete …
Things People with Hearing Loss Wish You Knew
Hearing loss changes the way we interface with the world, and each person’s experience is unique. The individual nature of hearing loss means that those who do not have loss can feel befuddled with the experience, wondering what it must be like to have this kind of communication impairment. With this gap in understanding, those who do not have hearing …
Investing in Your Health: Treating Hearing Loss
Treating hearing loss has profound direct benefits. It’s difficult to quantify the value of being able to converse easily and clearly with loved ones and community members. How can we measure the improvement of one’s quality of life when treatment for hearing loss makes it possible to experience the richness of the sound world, including birds singing, children laughing, and …
May is Better Hearing and Speech Month
Each May the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association celebrates Better Hearing and Speech Month. By devoting one month of the year to the importance of verbal communication, this group can raise awareness of hearing issues and to promote better practices for diagnosis, understanding, and treatment of hearing loss and speech pathology. Each year, they also choose a theme to guide the awareness-raising …
Talking About Hearing Loss: Why Your Disclosure Method Matters
Some people wear their hearts on their sleeves. It seems to come so easily to some people to let us know exactly what is going on in their lives, and these openly sharing community members can help us all feel more welcome to share our experiences. Some others feel more hesitant about sharing their own experiences, and it can require …
All About Tinnitus
Have you ever experienced hearing a ringing or phantom sound in your ear? If so, you’ve experienced tinnitus, an incredibly common condition that nonetheless needs to be taken seriously. Tinnitus can be brought on by a variety of causes and it can manifest in different ways, but at the root it always indicates damage to the auditory system. Roughly one …