Patient Education

  • Announcing new Hearing Success! Classes

    In ordering to maximize our patients’ success with hearing aids, Valley Audiology will be offering a series of classes called Hearing Success! Our objective is educating our patients and their loved ones on hearing, hearing…

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  • Inspiring Story of a Deaf NFL Player

    Click on this link to see an inspiring story about a deaf football player in the NFL.  Derek Coleman who plays for the Seattle Seahawks has traveled a tough road but he sure has made…

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  • Happy Anniversary Valley Audiology!

    This is Valley Audiology’s 30th year in business. My mother, Julie Fulford, started our practice in 1984 after working in various professional settings. She wanted to be able to provide hearing aids with the appropriate…

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  • Hearing Protection

    We see people on a daily basis who have hearing loss caused by exposure to loud noise. In fact, loud noise is the one of the most common causes of hearing loss. We attended a…

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  • California Telephone Access Program

    Many of you already have amplified telephones from the Cal- ifornia Telephone Access Program (CTAP). As excited as we are to promote this excellent program, there are always some of our patients who have never…

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  • Hearing Aid Maintenance Appointment

    Our fall newsletter will be mailed out next week.  Look inside for articles on binaural hearing (meaning hearing from both ears), power hearing aids and our annual battery sale.   We are offering appointments with…

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  • Do You Need More Power in Your Hearing Aids?

    Technology is an amazing thing! Hearing aids are get- ting smaller and smaller and sometimes our patients can hardly see them well enough to change the battery. I’m not sure if the small size is…

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  • Cerumen Management

    Cerumen is a fancy word for earwax. Earwax becomes an issue when you wear hearing aids because it can get into the aid causing it to malfunction or the wax can block the ear canal…

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  • OTC Pain Relievers and Hearing Loss

    New research is showing a link between acetaminophen and ibuprofen use and hearing loss.  For years we’ve known that high doses of aspirin can cause hearing loss and tinnitus.  Often the loss is temporary and…

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  • Hearing with Two Ears

    Patients who have seen us for a hearing aid evaluation have heard many of the reasons we give for binaural amplification (a fancy way of saying wearing hearing aids in both ears). At our recent…

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