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Protect Your Hearing During Sporting Events
In our previous blog, we provided a set of tips to help the hearing impaired hear more effectively during sporting events and gatherings. There are more options than ever to help treat hearing loss; however,…
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TV Sound Quality
One of the complaints I hear most from people is that they have trouble hearing their televisions. People with hearing loss always blame their loss or their hearing aids for not hearing clearly. The truth…
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Upcoming Event: Dr. Ellen Baker to lead discussion on tinnitus
Audiologist Ellen Baker, Au.D., owner of Decibel Hearing Services, will lead a talk on the effects of tinnitus and possible treatment options from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Thurs., Aug. 18 at The Oaks mall, Hillcrest…
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The Evolution of Hearing Aids
Technological and scientific development over the last few decades has been staggering. In fact, some of the technology today borders on science fiction. We can print a dolphin a new tail using 3D printing, wear…
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Love My Music and Love My Hearing
It seems as if I have been to more concerts lately than I did in my youth! My kids don’t know what to get Mom & Dad for presents anymore so they give us tickets…
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Celebrate the Sounds of Your Life
The American Academy of Audiology is using the slogan of “celebrate the sounds of your life” as a tribute to May as Better Hearing Month. I particularly like this expression because it reminds me that…
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Happy Anniversary to Us
This week marks the 12th anniversary of Decibel Hearing Services. I started my own business later in life so it seemed like a big undertaking at the time. Looking back I see that it was…
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Why Do Hearing Aids Have Such a Bad Rep?
Everyone remembers our parent’s and our grandparent’s hearing aids. They were big old beige things that filled the ear and seemed to whistle (feedback) all the time. Hearing aid users would constantly complain that all…
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Which Manufacturer is the Best?
There are six major hearing aid manufacturers at the present time: Oticon, Phonak, ReSound, Siemens, Starkey and Widex. Some of them have parent companies that incorporate some of the smaller brands as well. For instance,…
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Vanderbilt Study Reveals Senses of Sight and Sound Separated in Children with Autism
Like watching a foreign movie that was badly dubbed, children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have trouble integrating simultaneous information from their eyes and their ears, according to a Vanderbilt study published today in The Journal…