Technology considerations

• Flexible, adjustable by computer
• Amplifier options selectable
• Telecoil
• Directional Microphone
• Noise reduction
  Feedback reduction
• User controls, remote control

Reasonable expectations

• May require adjustment of expectations!
• All day user comfort
• Minimize hearing effort
  • Soft sounds audible
  • Average sounds heard appropriately
  • Loud sounds not uncomfortable
• Maximize intelligibility
• Analyze and adapt to the listening environments without adjusting complex controls

Hearing Aid Articles

Helpful Hints for new hearing aids users.

If you are an adult and have just received your first hearing aid, the chances are that its need has been apparent to most everyone, except perhaps yourself, for years. The average adult receives his or her first hearing aid some five to seven years after the problems caused by a hearing loss are first noticeable. Up to that point, because the usual onset of an adult hearing loss is so gradual, you may not have been aware of having hearing problems, or else blamed your conversational partners for any difficulty you were having ("If people would only get the mud out of their mouths and stop mumbling, maybe I wouldn't have so much trouble hearing them"). You have finally come to the realization--perhaps through a nagging spouse or children, an irritated boss or co-worker, or, hopefully, on your own--that the problem resides not in other people's mouths but in your ears.

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