by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. with Christa A concerned mother wrote, My son has an overall moderate hearing loss. He wears hearing aids in both ears. He has a really hard time in the cafeteria. He is in second grade. He has difficulty keeping up with his peers’ conversations because of the noise level, background noise, […]
Hooking a Loop System to a Panasonic Viera TV
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A man was having trouble making his new TV work with his loop system. He wrote, I recently purchased a Panasonic Viera TV. It only has a Toslink digital audio output jack. I purchased a Monoprice digital to analog converter (DAC). This works very nicely if I supply an HDMI input […]
MedEl’s new All-in-One Cochlear Implant—The RONDO
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. MedEl just launched their RONDO, the first single-unit cochlear implant in the world. Now, for the first time, the microphone, speech processor, coil and batteries are all housed in a single unit. As their press release states, “The fully-integrated design makes RONDO simple to wear, and is especially comfortable for people […]
Cheaper Hearing Aids for Mild to Moderate Sloping Hearing Losses
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Here’s some good news. If you have a mild to moderate sloping hearing loss, and can’t afford expensive hearing aids costing several thousand dollars, here is another option available to you. General Hearing Instruments, Inc, an American company based in Harahan, Louisiana has teamed up with Walmart and Sam’s Club stores […]
“Don’t Yell” and Other Coping Strategies
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. One lady vented, My complaint in dealing with folks on the phone who, when I tell them I’m hard of hearing, they think that talking louder is what is needed. Case in point; yesterday I had to deal with a local company. After playing the waiting game, I told the lady […]
Introducing the “HearMe Dear”—A Modern Conversation Tube
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. with Landis Lundquist The HearMe Dear is a modern version of the old conversation tubes that were commonly used by hard of hearing people in the last half of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th century. A conversation tube is basically just a flexible tube that […]