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Open fit hearing aids
Open fit hearing aids are similar in style to BTE aids in that a shell site above your ear and ...
Digital Hearing aids
What is a digital hearing aid? What does it do and how does it work? What is a digital hearing aid? Very ...
Buying your first hearing aid
If you are not hearing as much as you would like and you think you may benefit from a hearing ...
Buying
Would you buy or sell a hearing aid through this site?A few people have responded to my article about second hand hearing aids - there’s been a few offering aids either cheaply or for free and a few people asking for them.
Would you consider using this site to buy or sell a hearing aid?
If enough people are interested and you feel that this site is [...]
Living with hearing aids
Take your hearing aids out, hear moreYou could hear more by taking your hearing aids out.
How does that work? Well, I was in a meeting yesterday, sat around a table with seven other people - after a while I realised that I wasn’t hearing several of them as well as I normally would be. I did a quick check that the [...]
Science
Can you hear movement?Melissa Saenz, Ph.D., a postdoc at Caltech, has discovered that the video above can identify people with auditory synesthesia, a condition that can make some people hear music, even though there is no music being played.
From the press statement by Caltech:
“While I was running an experiment at the Caltech Brain Imaging Center, a group of [...]
Thoughts
Would you buy or sell a hearing aid through this site?A few people have responded to my article about second hand hearing aids - there’s been a few offering aids either cheaply or for free and a few people asking for them.
Would you consider using this site to buy or sell a hearing aid?
If enough people are interested and you feel that this site is [...]
News
New research into hearing aid stigmaA researcher at the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol wants to meet people diagnosed with impaired hearing but avoid wearing their aids. The Royal National Institute for the Deaf estimates nine million people in the UK have some degree of hearing loss but only 1.4 million use aids. Psychology student, Claire [...]
Information
Hearing aid manufacturersIf you are thinking about buying a hearing aid, it’s good to do a bit of market research to find out what’s available. After all, hearing aids are expensive items and you want to do everything you can to make sure you purchase the right one for you.
When you visit a hearing aid vendor / [...]
Charity
Donate used hearing aids in Palm Beach CountyThe Hearing Aid Bank, a program of the Deaf Service Center of Palm Beach County, provides used and recycled hearing aids free to those in financial need.
Many people have the misconception that hearing aids cannot be re-used. That is basically true and there are three good reasons why a person should not use another’s hearing [...]
Industry
Amplifon to rebrand and open 22 new stores in UKItalian hearing aid retailer Amplifon is undertaking a major expansion in the UK and a £10m rebranding exercise.
The company currently trades under the Ultratone, SieTech and Hearing Health names, these will be replaced with the single Amplifon brand - the new branding is being handled by the London-based Saatchi group this July.
The company, which is [...]