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What is “Speech Discrimination”?

What is “Speech Discrimination”?

Hearing is evaluated in two different ways.  The first way, which is the most familiar, is through pure tone testing.  These beeps give the audiologist a map of your hearing at each pitch. The second way to evaluate hearing is through speech discrimination.  Speech...
How Hearing Loss Affects Your Job

How Hearing Loss Affects Your Job

There are multiple ways hearing loss can affects your employment.   Day to day impact can include misinformation, trouble communicating and incomplete tasks.  But studies have shown hearing loss can have long term consequences on employment status. Adults with hearing...
How a Hearing Aid Works

How a Hearing Aid Works

A hearing aid does more than just make sounds louder.  A hearing aid is a sophisticated mini computer that is personalized to your hearing loss. To simplify it, a hearing aid works in 3 steps. The environmental sound, whether that is speech, background noise or steady...
When Is Teleaudiology Beneficial?

When Is Teleaudiology Beneficial?

Over the past two years, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth (virtual visits with doctors/professionals) has become more widely used than ever before. Teleaudiology (a virtual visit with your hearing healthcare provider) limits the number of...
What are Real-Ear Measurements?

What are Real-Ear Measurements?

Real-ear measurements are an extra form of verification for our providers.  With a simple measurement, we can make a personalized approached to your hearing aid programming.  Based on individualized ear canal shape, a real ear measurement allows our providers to see...
How to Help your Loved One Cope with Tinnitus

How to Help your Loved One Cope with Tinnitus

Tinnitus is the medical term for the perception of a sound in the absence of an external sound source.  More than 50 million Americans experience tinnitus.  Tinnitus is not an isolated condition.  Tinnitus is a symptom of other conditions such as hearing loss,...
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