Tips For Navigating Airports With Hearing Loss
Air travel can always be a bit stressful, but that’s especially true if you have hearing loss. Let’s go over a few tips that can help make your trip easier and more enjoyable. Get Treated For Your Hearing Loss Before You Travel If you’ve been hesitant to get a hearing test, use your next trip…
Here’s How You Can Make the Most of Video Games with Hearing Loss
If you’re among the one in eight people in the United States (13 percent, or 30 million) aged 12 years or older who has hearing loss in both ears, based on standard hearing examinations (according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders), you know that hearing loss can affect many aspects of…
Why You Should Treat Your Hearing Loss This Year
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders reports that, “Approximately 15% of American adults (37.5 million) aged 18 and over report some trouble hearing.” In other words, hearing loss is extremely common. If you suspect you have hearing loss but are hesitant to get a hearing test or wear hearing aids, review our…
Facts About Seniors & Hearing Loss for Audiology Awareness Month
The medical term for hearing loss in seniors caused by advancing age is presbycusis. An article published in the National Library of Medicine reports, “It is the most common cause of hearing loss worldwide and is estimated to affect approximately two-thirds of Americans aged 70 or older.” Because October is Audiology Awareness Month, we are…
How Hearing Aids Help You Better Understand Sound
Just because you hear a sound does not necessarily mean you understand it. Think about a time when you’ve been at a loud gathering or a dinner at Moonshine Grill. Everyone is talking, laughing and having a good time. Other conversations are happening all around you, and people are bustling about. The waitress come to…
Why Do Loud Sounds Startle People with Hearing Loss?
Just because a person suffers from hearing loss doesn’t mean they lose the ability to startle at loud noises like a car engine backfiring, or sudden microphone check while waiting for a concert to start at The Continental Club. If you suffer from hearing loss you may have noticed this phenomenon, referred to as recruitment,…
What is Unilateral Hearing Loss?
Sometimes referred to as unilateral hearing loss, single sided deafness is a condition in which an individual experiences hearing loss in only one ear but can hear normally out of the other ear. While the majority of patients with a hearing impairment suffer from bilateral (two-sided) hearing loss, SSD is diagnosed in approximately 60,000 people…
What is Sudden Hearing Loss?
For most people who experience hearing loss, the condition comes on gradually over a period of years. In rare cases, an abrupt loss of hearing occurs with little or no warning. This condition is known as sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL). What is Sudden Deafness? Sudden deafness is defined as a hearing reduction of 30…