Archive for July, 2013

• Shopping for Headphones for Your Kids

  • July 29th, 2013
  • Posted in Preventative Care
  • Tags: children, headphones, noise-induced hearing loss, products

  If you have children, sooner or later they will ask you to purchase them headphones that they can use with their music players, computers, and gaming systems. And there are reasons for this, because headphones can improve the experience of… Read More

• Precisely What do Speech Bananas and Audiograms Have To Do With Hearing?

  • July 22nd, 2013
  • Posted in Anatomy and Physiology
  • Tags: audiogram, hearing loss, human speech, language, speech banana

  “Speech bananas” are not afternoon snacks for audiologists.It’s a reference to the placement of sounds in an audiogram – a graphical representation of an individual’s hearing acuity within a range of volumes and frequencies. Audiograms are typically graphed with the… Read More

• Which Type of Ear Protection Should Recreational Shooters Use

  • July 15th, 2013
  • Posted in Hearing

  America has a strong history of gun usage, based to some degree on the movies and television programs we knew as a kids, which showed us images of policemen and cowboys firing guns almost all the time. The impression from… Read More

• PSAs Are Not Made for for People with Hearing Loss

  • July 8th, 2013
  • Posted in Choosing a Hearing Aid
  • Tags: FDA, hearing aids, personal sound amplifiers, product recommendations

  What is the exact difference between a hearing aid and a personal sound amplifier (PSA)? One big difference is that the PSA is being heavily advertised in recent months generating a lot of confusion. One reason you don’t see as… Read More