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Speech Mapping, or Real Ear Measurement, is considered to be the gold standard of hearing aid fitting. It is used to ensure that your hearing aids are programmed for your individual needs. Essentially, your audiologist places a small tube (microphone) in your ears with and without your hearing aid(s), while calibrated sounds are played. This allows your audiologist to measure unique acoustics of your ear
This is Dalette. Three weeks ago, at a Hearing the Call Delaware event, he was fit with new hearing aids. He had been pretty quiet through the intake, wax removal, and casual talk while we set up his hearing aids. His older brother and caretaker (pictured to the right) did much of the talking. The moment they were programmed and “live”, Dalette started laughing and
You’ve visited with your family and friend over the holidays. You sat with them at the table and smiled, laughed, and even nodded even when you weren’t sure you heard the joke your son made. Hearing in a situation when so many people are talking at a time is difficult with hearing loss. This post is here to remind you that hearing aids alone cannot
Have you received a Sonova mask clip with your purchase of a Phonak or Unitron hearing aid and don’t know what to do with it? Check out this clip for a tutorial!
Have you ever had a situation where what you feared about a thing was so much worse than it actually was? Like you made up stories in your head about how bad it was going to be? You thought up of all the worst case scenarios and just dreaded doing that thing you knew you had to do? I sort of had a similar
So I just finished a remote session with one of my patients. She had been telling me that she was experiencing a bit of distortion in the sound quality when her husband played piano in the living room. We scheduled a remote session to try and figure out which pitches the problem was occurring in. This morning before our session, he practiced as a warm
First, I would like to wish you warm, happy, and healthy holidays. I wish you all that your heart desires (and is good for you in the New Year). I do want to talk about something that is somewhat off my usual hearing health topic, but it is important. I really feel the need to share my thoughts. I’ve been seeing many come in over
The other day, after going over a patient’s audiogram, she paused and asked me the most common question I hear at my audiology clinic in Lawrenceville, New Jersey: “but is this normal for my age?” I’ve had many patients come in and ask me if their hearing loss was “normal” for their age. I hear this question a lot, actually. Many assume that they have
Masks decrease high frequency speech sounds (which are critical to speech understanding) by 5-10dB, depending on the kind of mask that is used. If you wear hearing devices, you may need a manual “mask program” that compensates for the decreased speech signal while in public settings. If your hearing devices are bluetooth compatible, you have the ability to make changes from the mobile app yourself.
As we are enjoying these beautiful summer days, we want to make sure to provide a few hearing device reminders, in the event you too are running into these issues. Warm, humid summer days result in hearing device failure for several reasons: You have more wax build-up in your ears. Remember your outer ear canals actually have sweat glands that aide in wax production. Warmer
When your patient brings you a necklace just because “It’s something you would wear”. And she’s absolutely right! Grateful for the beautiful relationships cultivated in our office ❤️. To my gifter: you know who you are. Thank you for your thoughtfulness.
Today, I saw a patient of who had trouble hearing her husband for the last few weeks. I was able to remove wax that had clogged her ears and get her hearing devices up and running again. Towards the end of the appointment, she sat quietly for a few minutes, and then asked “Are those birds I’m hearing outside your window?” “Yes,” I replied. As
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