If you or your family members encounter hearing difficulty during daily communications, hearing evaluation is recommended. Through a series of hearing tests, Hearing Health Consultant will provide you an objective analysis about the degree and category of your hearing loss in order to find suitable ways to improve your hearing ability.

From the test results you can know more about significance to wear hearing aids. However, we also have to know people’s subjective feelings regarding how to reinforce their communication ability. A high percentage of people with hearing loss deny their hearing difficulty and reluctant to wearing hearing aids. It is because they put an equal sign between hearing impairment and disability. For seniors, the hearing aid is another unwelcome reminder of the aging process. The pity of this attitude, of course, is that while they can refuse to wear a hearing aid, they cannot disguise the communicative consequences of a hearing loss. They still miss and misunderstand much everyday conversation; and their lives become more and more constricted. Therefore, family and friends should encourage them to a crucial first step in successfully coping with a hearing loss.

Basically, hearing aid is an electric amplifying device designed to make sounds audible to the individual with hearing loss. A hearing aid is composed by three components:

Microphone: Convert sound into electrical signal
Amplifier: Amplify electronic signal
Receiver: Convert the modified electrical signal into an acoustic output signal

The advanced development in hearing aids industry helps many hearing impaired to listen clearly again; it brings them outstanding improvement in everyday life communication. Thanks to increasing small micro-processor, the latest digital hearing instruments are able to transform acoustic signals into a binary code at high speed and with great precision. Complex calculations provide the ultimate flexibility in providing individualized solutions to hearing loss. The features and benefit found on digital hearing aids includes:

(1) Uncomfortable loudness level acceptance
Many people feel uncomfortable when he/she hears sharp, sudden, and loud voice. Most of the digital hearing aids are able to adjust the output to a comfortable level

(2) Speech intelligibility
Using biological system and digital technology, hearing aid users are able to distinguish words that sound very similar.

(3) Speech in noisy environment
Digital zooming and noise reduction by multiple microphones technology enable the hearing aids to remove or suppress background noise.

(4) Binaural hearing aids
By wearing hearing aids in both ears, users can distinguish speech from noise, locate the origin of a sound, and hear naturally.

Besides the degree of the hearing loss, motivation and life style, manual dexterity abilities, financial factor and cosmetic concerns are some of the other concerns that will determine the use of hearing aids.