Questions and Answers About Hearing Aids and Hearing Loss

There are different styles of hearing aids. The degree of your hearing loss, power and options required, manual dexterity, cost factors, and cosmetic concerns are some of the factors that will determine the style right for you.

When a hearing aid is termed digital, it usually means the hearing aid uses 100% digital processing. In other words, the hearing aid is a complete computer.

Results of your audiometric evaluation are plotted on a chart called an audiogram. Loudness is plotted from top to bottom. Frequency, from low to high, is plotted from left to right.

Hearing loss is a part of the natural aging process. Hearing challenges can be present based upon your hearing health history, including exposure to loud noise, certain medications, infections, head or ear trauma, congenital (birth or prenatal) or hereditary factors and a number of other causes.

Sometimes do you hear but not understand words? Is it hard to hear in noisy places? Do others complain the TV is too loud? Are you asking people to repeat what they have said? Have you noticed that people seem to mumble? If you're experiencing one or more of these symptoms, you may have hearing loss.

ALDs can increase the loudness of what you are trying to hear such as a radio, a television, or a public speaker without increasing the loudness of the background noises.

People with all degrees and types of hearing losses can benefit from assistive listening devices, including people with normal hearing.