Buying Hearing Aids at Costco
by Cliff Olson, AuD Depending on who you talk to, pursuing hearing treatment at a Costco is either a terrific idea or a horrible one. You hear success stories where their hearing aids are virtually indistinguishable from hearing aids that cost twice as much. You also hear horror stories about how poor their hearing aids…
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Consumer News: What Hearing Aids Actually Do
by Cliff Olson, AuD “Hearing aids just amplify all sounds.” “I turn up the volume on the tv an I still can’t hear it clearly so hearing aids won’t work for me.” “I purchased a ‘hearing aid’ from the corner store and it just made everything louder” These are common misconceptions of what hearing aids…
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Hearing in Background Noise: Evaluation Performance with Speech In Noise Testing
Perhaps the largest area of difficulty for individuals with hearing loss is understanding speech in background noise. However, your ability to understand speech with hearing aids in a noisy environment shouldn’t be a mystery. Audiologists have had a way to estimate your level of performance in these environments for years. Evaluating Performance in Background…
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Five Things Your Audiologist Should Tell You (But Probably Doesn’t)
Whether you are a regular at the audiologists office, or it’s your very first visit, there are some things your audiologist should tell you, but probably won’t. Being diagnosed with a hearing loss can be a time of uncertainty for many people, and an audiologist has to be sensitive to that. However, there are some…
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Why Verification is an Essential Part of Every Hearing Aid Fitting
Few people would doubt the level of precision that is required to be a Marine Corps Scout Sniper. If you ignore basic fundamentals of marksmanship or make one error in your calculations, you can miss your target completely. This analogy may seem like a bit of a reach in relation to fitting hearing aids…
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