Archive for March, 2009
homer742 asked: My 92-year-old G’pa can’t hear anyone that doesn’t yell at him, yet he hasn’t gotten a hearing aid. It causes my visits to him to be shorter and less enjoyable (for both he and I), because I get tired of yelling and I have to use simple words that lend themselves to yelling. [...]
Unwiredsignal.com asked: Phone Hearing Aid CompatibilityIf you have family members or patients who use hearing aids, you may know that they often have trouble using cell phones. Some cell phones cause radiofrequency interference with hearing aids, so the user hears high-pitched whistling sounds through the hearing aid, or static, or thumping sounds. But all cell [...]
MIKE SELVON asked: The advent of hearing aids many decades ago was a great blessing to the numerous people who had a hearing loss to one extent or another. However, no matter what kind or style of assistive listening device a person uses, all of these important hearing units are dependent upon minute batteries for [...]
Grant Pennington, Sr. asked: To those who are not familiar with hearing aids, they can appear to be self contained products. They think that a hearing aid consists of nothing more than the hearing aid itself and the battery that powers it. There are, in fact, many hearing accessories on the market.Hearing aid accessories can [...]
Sara P asked: For my military application I need to hear at 30db. I hear really well at all other frequencies except 3000 hz where I hear at about 35 – 40 db. It is crucial that I improve my hearing on the next hearing test. Is there any methods to improve my hearing at [...]