Household appliances seem to have a tendency of letting us down at the most inopportune moments. The car that won’t start when you have an appointment to get to, an oven that stops working in the hours before a dinner party, a clothes drier that gives up in the middle of a rainy patch, and…
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For those hearing aid wearers who may have only achieved mixed results from their hearing aids, it is only natural for them to wonder whether a premium priced set of devices would change the outcome. There is no shortage of older hearing aid wearers who complain about difficulties hearing in crowds and other noisy environments.…
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In this technological age we live in, it is all too easy to view hearing aids like any other household appliance. You plug it in and away you go. Manufacturers’ constant marketing of new wiz-bang features serves to perpetuate this expectation. In reality, being fitted with hearing aids is nothing at all like buying a…
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A question on the lips of many hearing aid wearers, is whether the high-tech hearing aids of today really do cut out the background noise. The answer to this million dollar question is: “It depends”. It depends on what exactly you consider to be background noise, and it depends on the lengths you are prepared…
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By now most of us will have heard the statistic, that people wait an average of seven to ten years before seeking assistance for a hearing deficit after initial symptoms. While it is easy to dismiss this delay in getting help as a simple denial of a problem, there is oftentimes legitimate cause for an…
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Like any form of physical therapy, there is a right and a wrong way to approach getting hearing aids for the first time. A concept lost on many prospective hearing aid wearers, is that amplifiers are not an instant fix for a hearing problem. Any hearing appliance should be viewed as a therapeutic tool as part…
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It comes as a surprise to a lot of people that hearing aids are fitted by using complex prescriptive formulas. Just like lenses in glasses need to be prescribed, amplification from a hearing aid also needs to be matched to the specific auditory deficit of the wearer. A range of parameters are considered when prescribing amplification.…
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Most long term hearing aid wearers at some point would have experienced the annoyance from a whistling hearing aid. Acoustic oscillation or “feedback” is the technical term for a whistling microphone/speaker. Fortunately today’s hearing aids are much more resistant to this annoying phenomenon. Feedback occurs when an already amplified signal is inadvertently picked up by the…
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The hearing sector has recently received media attention. Radio National and ABC Television have both aired stories exposing the darker side of the hearing aid “industry”. Many of the issues raised relate to the fact that the hearing sector in Australia is currently unregulated. A lack of Government regulation leaves the hearing sector open to abuses…
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Hearing aids come in six main styles. Each has a place and a purpose. Since 1990, hearing aids have become increasingly flexible in terms of their programmability, so much so, that many people can be served well by any one of the different styles. In order of size, let’s look at the various types available…
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