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Finding Financial Assistance for Your Hearing Aids
The saying “you get what you pay for” is especially true of hearing aids, and although modern-day hearing aids are engineered to be more effective than ever, they’re not exactly cheap, either. Fortunately, modern digital hearing aids, while not cheap, ARE becoming...
Understanding Your Treatment Options for Tinnitus
Approximately 45 million Americans suffer from tinnitus, which is the perception of sound where no outside sound source exists. This phantom sound is frequently identified as a ringing sound, but can also materialize as a buzzing, hissing, whistling, swooshing, or...
6 Ways to Save Your Hearing
The World Health Organization reports that 1.1 billion people are at risk for noise-induced hearing loss, caused by exposure to intense sound levels from personal music devices and noisy environments such as nightclubs, bars, concerts, and sporting events. An...
The Psychology of Hearing Loss
If we genuinely want to understand hearing loss, we have to understand both the physical side, which makes hearing increasingly challenging, and the psychological side, which includes the lesser-known emotional reactions to the loss of hearing. In conjunction, the two...
A Short Biography of Raymond Carhart, the “Father of Audiology”
Most people are surprised to learn how young the discipline of audiology actually is, and just how recently its founding father founded the profession. To put this in perspective, if you desired to find the founding father of biology, as an example, you’d have to go...
Questions to Ask Your Hearing Specialist Before You Buy Hearing Aids
When it’s time to buy a car, the majority of us know exactly what to do. We carry out some research, evaluate options, and compose a list of questions to ask the dealership. We do this so that by the time we’re ready to stop by the dealership, we have an idea of what...
The Top 5 Hearing Aid Myths Exposed
At times, it seems like we love to deceive ourselves. Wikipedia has an page named “List of common misconceptions” that contains hundreds of universally-held but false beliefs. Yes, I know it’s Wikipedia, but take a look at the bottom of the web page and you’ll see...
How to Read Your Audiogram at Your Hearing Test
You’ve just completed your hearing test. The hearing specialist is now entering the room and provides you with a chart, like the one above, except that it has all of these signs, colors, and lines. This is intended to show you the exact, mathematically precise...
How to Persuade Someone to Get a Hearing Test
How to Persuade Someone to Get a Hearing Test We don’t need to tell you the symptoms of hearing loss; you already know them all too well. You have a different kind of problem: persuading someone you care about to get their hearing evaluated and treated. But how are...
5 Reasons Why People Deny Hearing Loss
It takes the average person with hearing loss 5 to 7 years before getting a professional diagnosis, notwithstanding the fact that the warning signs of hearing loss are clear to others. But are those with hearing loss merely too stubborn to get help? No, actually, and...
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