WHY USE HEARING AIDS?

WHY DO PEOPLE WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT FAIL TO USE HEARING AIDS?

1.      Cost.

-          Too expensive especially the modern digital programmable.

-          Consider the gain from getting one (quality of life) against the cost of hearing aid.

-          Technology is improving at high cost to the consumer.

-          Remember “cheap can be very expensive in the long run”! Used hearing aids do more harm in young children.

2.      No qualified Professional Services.

-          On top of losing the critical window of speech and language development, they reject hearing aids of low quality and poor fit never to give a second chance!

-          Make sure your diagnosis has been accurately made by a qualified audiologist or a health professional supervised by an experienced audiologist.

-          Ensure hearing fitting is done by or under an experienced audiologist especially in a child.

-          You may demand to see the clinician qualifications

3.      Hearing aids ate too delicate.

-          Hearing aids like other electronics do break down easily.

-          People with hearing loss require high performing hearing aids for best results.

-          Do not accept to be fitted with a second hand hearing aid unless there is a manufacturer’s endorsement of its performance.

-          Each new hearing aid carries a manufacturer’s warranty for a year in case of nonperformance due to a factory fault.

-          Learn how to troubleshoot and maintain your hearing aids.

-          Get it serviced at your health care service provider.

4.      Bad report or experience about hearing aids.

-          Learn from those telling you of bad experience. However do not stop there. Give yourself a try as they did. After all you are not there and you might perform better.

-          It is known that people with “bad” experience draw comfort and strength from others with “bad” experience. This is paradoxical.

5.      Fear of the unknown.

-          Many people with problem even beyond hearing loss live in this “valley of Indecision”.

-          Connect with positive users of hearing aids and contact hearing health professionals for balanced opinion.

6.      Negative image projection.

-          Visible hearing aids e.g. behind the ear call for some attention.

-          Miniaturized behind the ear hearing aids intend to reduce visibility.

-          Even further the In The Ear reduces this and the completely In The Canal (CIC) hearing aids works out the miracle of concealment! 

-          It is with notice that mild and moderate hearing impairment can be addresses by the invisible and not so visible hearing aids.

-          The moderate and severe hearing loss require the larger and more visible hearing aids (BTE) so as to be more effective.

-          Young children should be provided with behind the ear so as to monitor performance.

-          It in a dilemma between image and impact of hearing loss, work out real losses to hearing impairment against potential gain due to use of a behind the ear hearing aid.(communication book-balancing), ther DECIDE.