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The Widex Clear has been released to the US market
The new Widex Clear hearing aid has been fit on patients in Europe for months and the reviews are sounding great! Because the hearing aid has a sound generating feature called Zen, Widex had to…
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Importance of Good Staff
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Answering Machine with Slow Speech
Understanding the name and phone number of a caller is very difficult for hearing impaired people. My patients also say that it is very difficult to under- stand information left on their answering machines. If…
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Denial of hearing loss
Many people who come into my office for their first hearing test don
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Captioned movies in local theaters
For those deaf and hard of hearing people who have given up going to the movies there is a new movement gaining traction (hopefully) to help you out.
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Benefits of Binaural Amplification
Many years ago it was com- mon for people to be fit with one hearing aid even if they had loss in both ears. Then in the 1980’s a study came out of the Veteran’s…
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Ear candling is ineffective and potentially dangerous.
Proponents of ear candling say that if you place a special lit candle at the opening of the ear canal, the vacuum created will pull earwax out of the ear, help clear your sinuses, alleviate…
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Proposed tax credit for hearing aid purchases.
The audiologists at Valley Audiology are members of the American Academy of Audiology (AAA).
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How long do hearing aids last?
We tell our patients that their hearing aids should last between five and seven years.
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Speechreading
In the past people spoke of “lipreading.” The term these days isn’t “lipreading,” but rather “speechreading.” The change has come because we are really look- ing at people’s facial expressions, arm gestures, postures, etc. and…