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Hearing Loss Mild to Moderate - both ears
Hearing Loss | Last Active: Jun 20, 2023 | Replies (14)Comment receiving replies
Here's a challenge for you. Take a short written paragraph and eliminate all the consonants from it. Then try to read it with only the vowels. The consonants are high frequency sounds that give speech meaning. Those are the sounds most people with hearing loss start missing first. Those higher pitched sounds are typical of women's and children's voices. Then do the opposite and eliminate the vowels only. Time yourself when reading it both ways or have someone else read it.
Food for thought: Often other people are more aware of our poor hearing than we are. How do your family members and friends relate to your high frequency hearing loss?
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Julie has "been there and done that"! An important take-away from the typical need to restore some high frequency hearing loss is some actual laboratory frequency response data (link below) for several OTC (Over The Counter) hearing aids versus some high dollar prescription hearing aids. The data shows the OTC hearing aids lacking in their higher frequency amplification capability compared to the prescription hearing aids. Nevertheless the OTC aids may have sufficient high frequency performance for moderate hearing loss users who can't justify the higher cost and technology of name brand prescription hearing aids. In my opinion all hearing aid manufacturers should post the frequency response graphs of their products. OTC hearing aids that can be programmed with smart phone applications to emphasize particular frequency bands your hearing test shows needed amplification for may be worth some extra cost to accomplish more of what is done by professional audiologists when you purchase prescription hearing aids.
https://www.hearingtracker.com/top-amazon-hearing-aids