Recently a few audiology aides and myself were invited to a local health fair. The health fair was sponsored by a very prominent business in our community, a business with about 125 employees. We were there to educate those employees about protecting their hearing,...

Happenings1. Enable Live Captions on iPhone with iOS 16: For those of you that have the most recent iOS16 download for iPhone, you can take advantage of the new Live Captions feature.Live Captions use on-device intelligence to auto-generate captions for speech (in...

Did you know moisture and humidity are really hard on your hearing aids? Just remember that anything electronic is subject to corrosion in a humid environment. Patients who sweat a lot often complain that their hearing aids cut in and out when it is hot outside.What...

I recently had two patients in their 90’s come in to see me for their first set of hearing aids. My question to them is always, " Why now?"  Let us call the first patient Lucy (for protected health information).  Lucy’s family finally convinced her into getting a...

Many of you may not realize how far modern hearing aids have come.A hearing aid no longer has just one purpose, to help you hear well again. New hearing aids are for adults that want to "age with grace".  What do I mean by this? Well, let me ask you a few questions....