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Strategies & Realities - Hearing Loss in Social Settings
Hearing Loss | Last Active: Jan 24, 2022 | Replies (71)Comment receiving replies
Hearing aids will not help with understanding speech in a group conversation in my experience. Your natural hearing does have the ability to tone down external noise and allow understanding of spoken words. Even the best hearing aids simply amplify all noise and although they will claim that their aid reduces background noise they do not work the same as your normal hearing.
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That is very true, however, with assistive technology that goes beyond those hearing aids, you can eliminate a lot of that annoying background noise. It's unfortunate that the people who fit hearing aids don't always share this information with their customers. It's also unfortunate that hearing aid advertising gets away with making false claims. Do you have telecoils in your hearing aids? Do you have BlueTooth?