Hearing Aid Fitting & Assessments

 

Before your hearing aid fitting appointment your audiologist will complete a comprehensive diagnostic assessment of your hearing. This may confirm whether or not you have deafness and whether further medical investigation is needed.

If the results indicate further medical investigation, your audiologist will suggest you come to your MD for further recommendation and management and can require medical clearance before you're fitted with hearing aids. It permits your audiologist to get correct hearing thresholds and therefore prescribe the correct hearing aids to you.

The assessment will embrace a series of tests that all give the audiologist with a pic of your hearing and ear health at that moment in time. As a result of hearing will and will modification over time, it's necessary that you simply get regular hearing tests at a frequency suggested by your audiologist to observe your deafness and guarantee your hearing aids are optimally fitted.

Hearing aids

Hearing aids are devices which amplify sound to assist individuals with hearing loss to listen to better. How do they work?

Hearing aids are created of totally different components together with a microphone, electronic equipment and a speaker.

• Microphone: Picks up sound motion within the air and turns this into electrical signals.
• Amplifier: Raises the extent of the electrical signal.
• Speaker: Transmits the signal back to the ear.

Varieties of hearing aids

There are varied types of hearing aids on the market. Your audiologist can discuss which of them are acceptable given your hearing loss, needs, wants, and lifestyle. loosely the kinds of hearing aids include:

• Behind the ear (BTE): a chunk that sits behind the ear and one that sits inside the ear, with a tube linking the 2 pieces. The piece within the ear could also be non-custom (tip on the end) or custom (ear mould).
• Receiver in the canal (RIC): almost like a BTE but it's a skinny wire (receiver) instead of a tube.
• In the ear or in the canal (ITE/ITC): One piece that inserts completely in the ear/ear canal.
• Completely in the canal (CIC): One piece that inserts additional in the external auditory canal and can not be simply seen.

Every type/style of hearing aid has its edges and limitations and also the right one depends on the individual.

As you'll be able to see, the hearing aid fitting method is a comprehensive process: together with the hearing test, understanding of your needs, discussing the different hearing aid choices and options available, and at last fitting your hearing aids. You will want to work alongside your audiologist to make sure the most effective outcomes are achieved.

It's necessary that you purchase hearing aids from an audiology clinic and have them fitted by an authorized audiologist to ensure these processes are being carried out. Contact your local audiologist for a hearing test. Attune has audiologists and information for all hearing levels.