Assistive Listening Devices Improve Hearing in Complex Environments

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For individuals who need extra help hearing, remote microphones, such as the Widex Sound Assist, can help give hearing aids a boost, making sounds clearer. Here’s how these devices work and how they can help. Imagine you’re sitting in a noisy restaurant during happy hour with a group of friends. Someone tells a joke. You laugh and nod, like you … Read More

Three Tips to Hear Better in Public Spaces

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With the pandemic in the rear-view mirror for the most part, we’re getting back out in public and enjoying activities with groups of people, like dining out in restaurants, attending church services, and going to parties or conferences. And while it’s fun to return to pre-pandemic life and enjoy one another’s company, frequenting these types of environments also can be … Read More

Hearing Loss Can Bring Increased Fatigue to Those Over 40

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Hearing Loss and Fatigue: New Study Reveals the Connection Audiologists often see patients who say that struggling to hear on a daily basis literally wears them out. Now a new study recently published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, suggests people with hearing loss aren’t just imagining it. They are nearly twice as likely to experience daily fatigue compared to … Read More

Can You Hear Me Now?

Family posing for a photo at the dining room table, with the mother seated in the center holding a phone.

The holidays are a busy time for gatherings with family and friends. Unfortunately, for those with hearing loss, a common and frustrating question at these events often is, “Can you hear me now?” While family and friends without hearing loss may not have problems hearing one another, if you have hearing loss and wear hearing aids, you may struggle more … Read More

How Remote Mics Can Help You Hear Better

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Enhance Your Hearing with Remote Microphones If you have hearing loss, you likely have problems hearing and understanding speech. And even if you wear hearing aids, they sometimes may not be enough to help you hear and understand what is being communicated in some complex settings. According to the Hearing Loss Association of America, that’s because often, turning the volume … Read More