“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
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Which Type of Ear Protection Should Recreational Shooters Use
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
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
An Introduction to Swimmer’s Ear – Its Origins, Signs and Symptoms and Treatment Methods
Acute external otitis or otitis externa is an infection of the outer ear canal – the portion outside your eardrum. Virtually all people know it by its common name – swimmer’s ear. The familiar name swimmer’s ear originates from the… Read More
The Latest in Music Therapy for Tinnitus Patients
Sound in an amazing thing. It influences our emotions and thoughts in so many different ways – both negative and positive. For instance, for most of us, hearing music we like is calming and relaxing, but turn the volume of… Read More
Considerations in the Hearing Aid Repair or Replace Decision
One of the more common questions we hear is, “My older hearing aid is broken or is not performing the way it used to – do you think I should buy a new one, or have it fixed?” Presented with… Read More
Research into the Connections Between Hearing Loss and Dementia
If you have some type of hearing impairment, do you ever notice that listening to people speak is work, and that you have to try hard to understand what people are saying? This is a sensation that happens even to… Read More
Might My Hearing Aid Amplify High Decibel Noises and Potentially Damage My Hearing Ability Further?
Patients in the process of being fitted for a hearing aid to help them hear faint sounds often ask what the hearing aid is going to do with sounds that are still too loud for them. The response to this… Read More
Categories of Hearing Impairments: Introduction to the Main Types
Hearing loss can take a variety of forms and arise from many different causes, and to understand them you need to understand the way we hear. We receive sounds via the outer ear, which is not only the portion of… Read More