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How would I know if I'm experiencing hearing loss?
Chances are you’ll be the last to know. The people around you will notice it first.
Loss of hearing is called the ‘invisible disability’, but the effects of hearing loss are very visible!
Socially:
Emotionally:
People who have difficulty hearing can experience such distorted and incomplete communication that it seriously impacts on their professional and personal lives.
Fortunately, the situation can be greatly improved for most people with hearing loss. Modernhearing aids are technologically advanced and can help reduce the communication problems of individuals with hearing loss.
HEARING TESTS
The hearing test involves testing each ear for its various tone capabilities. Healthy Hearing can thus ascertain how good your hearing actually is.
Some clients may find that they are a little tone deaf rather than completely deaf. The test is comprehensive and will tell us if you have major or just minor problems.
The purpose of the screen test to see if there is a problem first of all. During the screen test Healthy Hearing will use a video-otoscope which will clearly show you on the computer screen if the problem is just wax or something small.
If there is an actual hearing loss in certain areas Healthy Hearing will then make a chart of the hearing loss. This chart is called an audiogram.
The audiogram is used extensively as a blueprint to find a solution to rehabilitating your hearing loss using powerful computers.
The audiogram also helps us to recommend which hearing device will be the best to rehabilitate the problem and re-integrate the person into conversational bliss.
Healthy Hearing will present three options. Each option may suit different budgets but as always you will only get what you pay for. A minimum recommendation however will be made to you.
HEARING AID MANUFACTURING USING OUR ONSITE LABORATORY
Using the blueprint (audiogram) the hearing aid specialist will now go about making the hearing aid fit to your ear and will need to take measurements and ask some questions. By having an on-site laboratory he will save a lot of time by not having to post the hearing aid to another city and risk loss Healthy Hearing is committed to manufacture and repair hearing aids in record time. Health hearing has fully equipped laboratory. In each of the branches
HEARING AID FITTING
Once you have bought a hearing aid from Healthy Hearing's, that’s when Healthy Hearings real work begins. Using a hearing aid to combat Hearing loss is a rehabilitation process and not a quick fix solution.
The brain may have to relearn certain sounds that it hasn’t been hearing for a while.
Healthy Hearing will fit and provide all the counseling you need to make it through the initial period of adjustments you need to make.
On average 4 post fitting appointments are needed. No costs are associated with these post fit visits except your and the specialist’s time.
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