Can Hearing Loss Affect Your Dreams?
Our senses allow us to take in the world. Each sense provides a different way to connect and interact with our environment. In addition, our senses can work together and even step in should one sense deteriorate. This is referred to as sensory compensation and has been noted in individuals with hearing and visual impairments….
The Musician Hearing Loss Evolution
As we work through the clinic day, we may find ourselves jealous of our patients with those high frequency hearing losses due to concert their attendance. Often these were the lucky ones with the premier tickets, close to the stage, the musicians, and the speakers as well. As audiologists we now know that those that had…
Hearing Loss Preventative Care Practices
Did you know that October is National Audiology Awareness month? Each time this year, audiology professionals make an additional effort educate the community and increase awareness of audiology and hearing-related disorders. One aspect of hearing health, just as essential as is it is undervalued, is prevention. Though we’ve been encouraged to get regular checkups for…
Mapping Hearing Loss Solutions
Google.org, the charitable arm of the world’s largest search engine, is supporting World Wide Hearing (WWH) to find a solution to what the World Health Organization (WHO) has described as one of the largest disabilities on the planet. Hearing loss. It affects one-third of people over the age of 65 and more than 1 billion young people are at risk for impaired…
October is National Protect Your Hearing Month
You can permanently lose your hearing from prolonged exposure to noise! 12 million Americans have hearing loss as a result of exposure to noise. Audiologists across the nation are encouraging Americans to protect their hearing by: Wearing hearing protection when around sounds louder than 85dB for 30 minutes or more. Turning down the volume when…
Future of Hearing in the Classroom
As many as 12% of children in the United States experience some degree of noise-induced hearing loss. For these children, additional barriers in the classroom make it more challenging for them to keep up with academics. In fact, children with hearing loss are likely to have lower grades than their peers. Due to the invisible…
Why You Should Treat Uneven Hearing Loss
In the same way that our vision may differ between our eyes, hearing loss may occur asymmetrically and the hearing discrepancy may range from mild to severe. Often, individuals with an uneven or unilateral hearing loss rely on their “good ear” rather than seeking treatment. If one ear is able to hear adequately, is it…
The Latest on Cognitive Decline, Listening Effort and Hearing Aids
The prevalence of dementia is expected to soar as the average life expectancy increases, but recent estimates suggest that the age-specific incidence of dementia is declining in high-income countries. In the February 11 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Claudia Satizabal and colleagues report “robust evidence” of dementia’s decline. Using observational data collected…
Improvements to Hearing Technology
Our ability to hear fundamentally shapes how we relate to the world around us. However, hearing is often taken for granted until it is in jeopardy. For those experiencing a loss of hearing, the prognosis is better than ever before. Advances in digital hearing aids have allowed us to treat hearing loss on a more…
Why is there a wide variety of pricing for hearing aids?
People often ask why there is such a wide variety of pricing for hearing aids. One of the main reasons is that every manufacturer has their good, better, best models. Usually those prices are related to the amount and type of features and/or circuitry in the hearing aid. The more expensive the aid, the better…