Remember pulling out a map before a road trip to plan your route? You might even have fond memories of this tradition. But it’s unlikely you’ve used a paper map for years, now that the easiest and most relied upon technology for driving to an unfamiliar place is available via the map app right on your smartphone. It’s easy to …
Difficulties with Communication Could Signal a Hearing Loss
It’s no secret that as we age, we tend to seek quieter socializing environments. While our salad days might have been spent comfortably schmoozing at loud clubs or cacophonous parties, the social calendars of our more mature lives are often populated with one-one-one activities or more sedate offerings. That can stem from a multitude of reasons, but one is certainly …
Dealing with Noise Pollution in Your Neighborhood
For just one day, pay attention to the noises of your environment. Underneath the soft birdsong and voices of your neighbors is often a constant hum of traffic or HVAC systems that we’ve become so used to that we barely register the sound anymore. A typical day in an American neighborhood can also include innumerable occurrences of too-loud noise. Beyond …
Getting to Know Your Hearing Aids
The hearing aid market is virtually unrecognizable today compared to what was available to aid in hearing health decades ago. We can thank the computer revolution for much of that progress. As industries boomed with technological advances, hearing aid manufacturers were quick to integrate advancements into their products. Many of the hearing aids we choose from today are like tiny, …
Hearing Aid Compatible Assistive Listening Devices
If you have hearing loss, there’s a good chance you’re using hearing aids to get through your days. Hearing aids are potent tools for receiving, amplifying, and processing sound. Hearing aids, like other electronic equipment, have benefited from technological breakthroughs and are now more innovative than ever. But there are other technologies that, when used in conjunction with a hearing …
Why You Should Treat Bilateral Hearing Loss with Two Hearing Aids
If you have been diagnosed with hearing loss, the graph you get that shows your results can say a lot about how your hearing issues are configured. Not only can it show us what specific frequencies of sound you find challenging, but it will also indicate whether your hearing loss exists in one ear (unilateral hearing loss) or both ears …
A Possible Link Between Exercise & Reduced Risk for Hearing Loss
The benefits of exercise are more far-reaching than many first suspects. Your total health is interconnected, so making sure one aspect of your health is dealt with, can ensure that other areas benefit as well. For instance, aside from managing a healthy weight, and strengthening muscles, regular exercise ensures most aspects of your health are maintained and better protected. Regular …
Monitoring Your Daily Exposure to Noise
While the most common cause of hearing loss is age, a younger population is experiencing hearing loss at a higher rate than ever before. This is due to a world which is becoming noisier and noisier. Noise induced hearing loss occurs due to dangerous levels of sound and the more aware you are of when you may be at risk, …
Building Connections | May is Better Hearing and Speech Month
May is here and many of us are already enjoying reconnecting to friends and family as the weather warms. May is also the month in which The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) designates as Better Hearing and Speech Month (BHSM). This annual month long campaign is a call to raise awareness and treatment for those with communication issues connected to hearing …
Myths about Hearing Loss
Hearing aid technology has advanced remarkably in the past decades, yet we hold on to many beliefs based on an old-fashioned style of hearing assistance. In addition to our deeply held assumptions about hearing loss, we also have built a mythology around hearing loss. Many of the things we take for granted as true can turn out to be not …