Help for your hearing loss, tinnitus and other ear conditions
My audiologist did not adequately prepare me for the challenges I would face in adjusting to wearing my new hearing aids. What is the best way to adapt to wearing hearing aids?
This article gives you realistic expectations of what your hearing aids can do for you, then explains how to successfully adapt to wearing your new hearing aids.
Just because you have smoke detector or CO detector in your house is no guarantee it will awaken you when you are asleep since hard of hearing people have special needs and thus need alerting devices that are specially designed to get their attention.
This article gives you 4 key features you should have in your alerting system, then helps you decide which system will best fit your needs.
I’m a bit confused about how to use the t-coils in my hearing aids with various assistive listening devices and other audio devices. What do I need to do? What do I need to get? This article explains the pros and cons of using neckloops, silhouettes and ear links in coupling audio devices to your hearing aids via their t-coils.
Every once in a while I hear hard of hearing people talking about “loop systems.” What are loop systems? How can they help hard of hearing people hear better? Are they expensive?
This article explains what induction loop systems are and how to set them up and use them for beautiful clear sound.
Hearing aids don’t work well for me, particularly in noisy places such as while driving in the car or talking in noisy restaurants. Being unable to communicate freely, especially on long car trips, really spoils our vacations and times together. What can I do in order to hear my wife under such conditions?
This article explains how to use the PockeTalker in those situations where your hearing aids aren’t effective including noisy situations such as riding in a car or dining in a crowded restaurant.
Hard of hearing people often lament, “Hearing aids don’t work well for me, particularly in noisy places such as while driving in the car or talking in noisy restaurants.” They then ask, “What can I do in order to better hear my spouse and friends under such conditions? Being unable to communicate freely is putting a strain on my marriage and my friendships.”
This article explains in simple language the various kinds of assistive listening devices (ALDs) that can make your communications ever so much easier, their various benefits and shortcomings, and how to “couple” them to your hearing aids.
