How Treating Hearing Loss Supports Your Brain
Over five percent of the world’s population experience disabling hearing loss at some point in their lifetime, with hearing loss affecting 48 million Americans alone, it is clearly something that a large number of us will experience. A third of people aged between 65 and 74 experience some form of hearing [...]
Special Masks Help to Communicate with Patients During COVID
By Samuel (Sam) Johnson, B.A., AuD Extern As Covid-19 has become a daily concern, masks have become an essential tool to limit transmission of the virus. Unfortunately, masks have an adverse effect on speech understanding especially for those with hearing loss. Not only do they reduce important pitches for [...]
How to Use Your Hearing Aids Controls
Hearing aids are versatile tools. They are designed to improve hearing and can capture both soft sounds and loud noises. While using a hearing aid, one can adapt the volume’s settings according to their hearing preferences or necessities. For example, users can increase the volume when watching television or [...]
Why is Pure-Tone Audiometry a Common Hearing Test?
When you are dealing with hearing loss, the next step is to speak to an audiologist about what you can do next. One of the many hearing tests that they will talk to you about is pure-tone audiometry testing. It's the most used hearing test around, and the reason [...]
Is Tinnitus a Sign of Hearing Loss, or a Different Condition?
Tinnitus is a condition that affects between 15 and 20 percent of people, yet so many of us know so little about it! While this is a rather obscure condition, it’s good to know the basics of it, as well as its potential causes. This will allow you [...]
Who Invented the Hearing Aid?
The history of hearing aids is a truly interesting one. From animal horns to modern digital aids, hearing aids have come a long way since their early origins in the 13th century and they’re bound to take leaps and bounds forward in years to come too! To bring [...]
