A cowboy movie was being filmed 40 years ago when one of its actors incurred a hearing loss after a gun surprisingly got off near his ear. He had to wear two hearing aids and he did not mind, even when he was already the president of the United States There were two hearing aids that worked hand in hand as to correction of the hearing loss and the balance of the stimuli.
One of the 24 million Americans who have either hearing, speech or language impairment happened to be a former president. The statistics given by the National Hearing Aid Society shows that the cases of hearing and speech impairment will have increased at a quicker rate between 1980 and 2050 than the integrated American population. The quest for product enhancement is a mainstay in the list of hearing aid makers especially with the upward growth of users count.
Distinguishing between speech and background noises is markedly improved in today's hearing aids and they are now fitting in a more reserved manner into the outer ear. It takes a while for a person who, gradually incurred haring loss to adjust after a sudden hearing aid intervention.
Placement of the hearing aids may vary and are commonly either inside the ear canal, in the bowl of the ear, or over the ear lobes. More than half of the hearing impaired is over age 65, but a significant 20 per cent are school aged children, a direct contradiction to the common notion that only old people need hearing aids.
Because of its subtle onset, hearing loss is hardly noticeable. A high frequency of requests to repeat uttered sentences is a reason to start thinking that your hearing may be impaired, along with unequal responses to sound, not paying attention and heightened use of sounds. Ringing in the ear that does not stop, ear infections, excessive disappointment or loneliness especially the senior individuals should make you consider hearing problem. A local clinical audiologist says that many people who have hearing problems don't seek help because they've been told by doctors that nothing can be done for them.
What the doctors usually mean is that nothing can be done medically to correct the problem in which case, a hearing aid can help. Upon initial suspicion of hearing loss, one should first go to his family doctor or ear specialist for consultation. It is for the doctor to decide if the case can still benefit from medical and surgical means or should be referred to a hearing aid specialist for fitting and orientation for wearing hearing aids.
Master degrees in Audiology and pronouncement from the State Commission for Audiology and Speech Language Pathology stand behind some hearing aid distributors. The distribution of hearing aids is also allowed to be done by audiologist who has special instructions from the National Hearing Aid Society, although they do not have college degrees.
As long as you are buying from someone who has been licensed by the State Board of Examiners for the Fitting and Dispensing of Hearing aids, you are on the right track. Even if it shows when they converse with someone without looking at the speaker, several people push away hearing aids and refuse to admit that the only way they get by is by lip reading. If you are ready to admit that you have a hearing problem, you have now crossed the first line toward hearing improvement.
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