Browsing the archives for the Hearing Aid tag

29Jul09 About Cochlear Implants

More than 23,000 adults and 15,500 children have received cochlear implants, according to the Food and Drug Administration. These devices can help adults who have lost most or even all of their hearing later in life to learn to associate the signal provided by an implant with sounds they remember. The technology can provide recipients [...]

22Jul09 Real Ear Digital Speech Mapping Lets You See Sounds You Are Missing

New hearing technologies continue to revolutionize the hearing abilities for those who are facing increasing hearing loss due to aging or illness. One of these innovative approaches is Live Speech Mapping for hearing aid fittings — sometimes touted as an MRI of your aid’s setting.
Mapping uses the voices of a patient’s family member or friend [...]

13Jul09 Use Your iPhone as a Hearing Aid

A new application (released June 11, 2009) for the Apple iPhone has been designed to aid people with poor hearing, featuring abilities that not even a hearing aid can boast of. Essentially a volume booster, the app amplifies everything that is being heard by the microphone and allows the user to set which frequencies to [...]

6Jul09 Hearing Aids Keep Getting Better and Smaller

If you’re suffering from hearing loss and are either considering a hearing aid or already use one, you may be interested in learning more about what is being touted as the smallest hearing aid on the market. Check out the Lyric hearing aid, which is fitted differently than a traditional hearing aid and is unnoticeable.
Traditional [...]

19Jun09 Documentary Explores Decision for Family to Have Cochlear Implants

Cochlear implant is considered an incredible technology that enables both adults and children with severe to profound hearing loss to hear. It is also considered controversial for many individuals in the deaf community, and in particular for parents who are deaf who have children who are deaf. While the surgery is increasingly being covered by [...]

17Jun09 Hearing aids provide starting point for helping combat tinnitus

Noises in the head (tinnitus) bother some people to the point where their life is personally affected. If untreated, tinnitus can lead to irritability, fatigue and even depression. But according to the American Tinnitus Association, a successful solution to treating the symptoms of tinnitus is to wear hearing aids.
A study of 230 hearing care professionals [...]