What prescription hearing aid style fits you?
Picking a prescription hearing aid that suits your hearing needs can sometimes seem overwhelming. Here at Audiology Associates, we make recommendations for style and technology level based on not only your specific hearing configuration but also your lifestyle. Watch this short video to learn the differences between all prescription hearing aid styles.
Our proprietary method is what makes us different from the rest.
THE MA5P METHOD TM
THE MA5P METHOD™ is a proprietary method using technological advancements based on a person center care approach and a wide range of digital audiological devices to assess the specific human needs of each individual patient.
THE MA5P METHOD TM
Marincovich
Dr. Marincovich, the creator of THE MA5P METHODTM, works with patients of all ages and levels of hearing loss.
“I have always felt that in order to be great diagnosticians we need to understand how hearing loss impacts the patient and being empathetic in order to understand how to best help someone communicate more effectively. We have to understand all aspects of we each, as individuals, hear and process sound.”
– Peter J. Marincovich, Ph.D., CCC-A, Clinical Audiologist
THE MA5P METHOD TM
Assessment
Not only do we provide standardized hearing testing for diagnostic purposes but also assess how you “perceive” soft, comfortable, quiet, and loud sounds in different environments. Interventional audiology, consistent with person-centered care, assesses cognitive aspects of how we tolerate loud sounds, how we process speech, noise, and listening effort for soft sounds.
Optimal hearing testing for patients is closely related to appropriate functional communication and engagement. We test hearing sensitivity alone (i.e. traditional audiogram) and assess cognitive processes that are key to understanding speech. This provides us with a comprehensive management strategy for general and age-related hearing loss.
THE MA5P METHOD TM
Adaptation
The correct prescription of soft, comfortable amplified sound is the second step after correctly assessing a patients hearing loss.
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ALDS
Assistive Listening Devices are meant to be used, either with or without prescription hearing aids, to help patients hear better in multiple lifestyle situations. They help in a variety of functions such as watching tv, talking on the phone, listening in large areas, etc.
THE MA5P METHOD TM
Active Listening
Communication is a two-way street. The hearing impaired individual needs to take an active role in communicating more effectively and the talker also needs to learn how to become more intentional in applying communication strategies to maximize the communication cycle, and etiquette is a very important part of this strategy.
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After Care
We don’t expect our patients to succeed without proper aftercare. That’s why we’ve developed specific processes for following up with your progress. The key to helping a patient communicate more effectively has to do with adapting the appropriate technology to the patient as the patient adapts to the technology.
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Prevention
Hearing health and wellness for a lifetime. This means we are also educators on how to protect the hearing that you have for years to come.
Our patients love the results
Videos & written testimonials
“It truly has changed my life and they’re so comfortable I don’t even know I have them on and that’s the key.”
This is the place to go…
“This is the place to go if you want very knowledgable, professional & friendly. They know what to do about your hearing. I am deaf on 1 side & almost deaf in the other. They made it where I can hear everything pretty well & no one can see the equipment I’m wearing.”
– Current patient
Surprised with the quick results
“My first visit ever to this office after I picked them blind from a google search. Office staff are very bubbly and pleasant to engage. Lisa Dehner handled my case very deftly and had me out with my hearing aids all fixed up and working. I was surprised with quick results.”
– Current patient
To my patients,
It is my pleasure to serve you and continue to serve Sonoma County as I have for over 35 years. Since 1985 when I lost hearing in my left ear, I personally experienced the gaps in treatment options and necessary methodology to keep those affected by hearing loss connected. It has since been my focus to develop systems, processes, and methods, like THE MA5P METHODTM, to address the individual needs of my patients and create a solution that fits their lifestyle. If you are experiencing hearing loss, I invite you to pay us a visit and discuss ways to keep you connected to the things you love.
To health and staying connected,
Peter J. Marincovich, Ph.D., CCC-A, Clinical Audiologist
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