HEARING TIPS
The Psychology of Hearing Loss
If we truly want to understand hearing loss, we need to understand both the physical side, which makes hearing progressively difficult, and the psychological side, which includes the lesser-known emotional responses to the loss of hearing. In conjunction, the two...
A Short Biography of Raymond Carhart, the “Father of Audiology”
Most people are surprised to learn how young the profession of audiology actually is, and just how recently its founding father established the profession. To put this in perspective, if you desired to find the founding father of biology, for example, you’d have to go...
Questions to Ask Your Hearing Specialist Before You Buy Hearing Aids
When it’s time to purchase a car, most of us know exactly what to do. We complete some research, compare options, and compile a list of questions to ask the dealership. We work on this so that by the time we’re set to visit the dealership, we have an idea of what...
The Digital Advantage: Analog Vs. Digital Hearing Aids
You’ve more than likely been told that today’s hearing aids are “not your grandfather's hearing aids,” or that hearing aid technology is light-years ahead of where it used to be, even as recently as 5 to 10 years ago. But what makes today’s technologies so much...
The Top 5 Hearing Aid Myths Exposed
Sometimes, it seems as if we prefer to deceive ourselves. Wikipedia has an page called “List of common misconceptions” that includes hundreds of widely-held but false beliefs. Yes, I understand it’s Wikipedia, but take a look at the bottom of the page and you’ll...
How to Read Your Audiogram at Your Hearing Test
You’ve just concluded your hearing test. The hearing specialist is now coming into the room and presents you with a graph, like the one above, except that it has all of these characters, colors, and lines. This is intended to explain to you the exact, mathematically...
How to Persuade Someone to Get a Hearing Test
We don’t need to tell you the signs of hearing loss; you already know them all too well. You have a completely different kind of challenge: persuading someone you care for to get their hearing screened and treated. But how are you expected to get through to someone...
5 Reasons Why People Deny Hearing Loss
It takes the average person with hearing loss 5 to 7 years before getting a qualified professional diagnosis, despite the reality that the warning signs of hearing loss are clear to others. But are those with hearing loss merely too stubborn to get help? No, actually,...
What to Expect at Your Hearing Exam
If the unknown triggers anxiety, then a trip to the audiologist can be stressful. While virtually all of us have experience with the family doctor and the town dentist, the trip to the hearing specialist might be a first. It certainly would be nice to have someone...
Exploring a Career in the Hearing Care Profession
Even though many of us remain current with our annual physical, dental cleaning, and eye examination, we notoriously forget to consider the well-being of our hearing. And when our hearing does start to weaken, it appears so gradually that we scarcely notice and...