Hearing aid features
Hearing aids are far more technologically advanced than even a decade ago. Some of today’s devices essentially function as smartphone headsets. You can take calls, stream music and podcasts, and even track health metrics with your hearing aids.
Those high-tech features are nice, but they drive up the cost of hearing aids. You can save money by choosing only the features you really need.
Most hearing aids have a combination of the following popular features:
Multiple channels to adjust the volume of certain frequencies, such as high-pitched or low-pitched sounds, based on your specific type of hearing loss
Noel Holston to speak on Life After Deaf
His Feb. 17 presentation sponsored by local hearing loss group, library
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Journalist Noel Holston, who had manageable hearing loss when he went to bed one night, found himself deaf in the morning. He documented his odyssey with sudden deafness in the book “Life After Deaf: My Misadventures in Hearing Loss and Recovery.”
Holston, who lives in Athens, Ga., will talk about his experience at a captioned Zoom event on Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 6:30 p.m. The talk is sponsored by the Albany chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), along with the Albany Public Library. Those wishing to attend must preregister at albanypubliclibrary.libcal.com
“Double Masking” and Hearing Loss: New Pandemic Realities Pose Additional Challenges for People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
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ASHA Encourages Steps to Make Communication More Accessible for the 48 Million Americans With Hearing Loss
ASHA strongly supports all public health measures designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. However, we also want to make the public aware of the tremendous challenges that people who are deaf or hard of hearing are experiencing right now which are only poised to increase with double masks. ROCKVILLE, Md. (PRWEB) February 01, 2021 As government and public health officials increasingly recommend the practice of wearing two masks to help protect against new and more contagious variants of COVID-19, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is encouraging the public to be aware of the undue challenges that this measure will pose to people who are deaf
University of Washington Chief Strategy Officer of Population Health Dr. Ali Mokdad reacts to the new strain of coronavirus reaching the United States.
Though studies have found they are effective in helping to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, face masks are not ideal for those living with hearing loss, with some 95% of respondents to a recent survey reporting that these facial coverings have adversely affected their ability to communicate with others during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
In an effort to learn more about how the pandemic has affected those living with hearing loss an estimated 48 million Americans suffer from some degree of hearing loss the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) surveyed 1,399 people across the country, 85% of whom were 55 years of age or older.
Face masks inhibit communication for 95 percent of people with hearing loss, new survey finds
- Hearing Loss Association of America and Cochlear survey highlights COVID-19 s impact on the community of people with hearing loss in the U.S., includes hearing and mental health-related implications
- Nearly half of those with hearing loss noticed impacts to other aspects of their health during the pandemic including increased anxiety, isolation and loneliness
- Seventy percent are more aware of their hearing loss due to the pandemic; nearly half are more eager to explore hearing loss treatment options
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