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The Psychology of Hearing Loss
If we truly want to understand hearing loss, we need to understand both the physical side, which makes hearing increasingly challenging, and the psychological side, which includes the lesser-known emotional responses to the loss of hearing. In conjunction, the two...
Dr. Lori Trentacoste: Top Melville Audiologist Battles Hearing Loss Epidemic With Prevention Seminars & Alliance
The LIAHP- (The Long Island Alliance of Hearing Preservation) launched its 2015 Hearing Loss Seminar series at the South Huntington Library on May 14 where sufferers and info seekers attended to get firsthand understanding and options about their hearing loss. In...
A Short Biography of Raymond Carhart, the “Father of Audiology”
Many people are surprised to discover how young the discipline of audiology really is, and just how recently its founding father founded the profession. To put this in perspective, if you wished to find the founding father of biology, for instance, you’d have to go...
Questions to Ask Your Hearing Specialist Before You Buy Hearing Aids
When it’s time to buy a car, most of us know exactly what to do. We do some research, compare options, and compose a list of questions to ask the dealership. We work on this so that by the time we’re set to stop by the dealership, we have an idea of what we’re looking...
The Digital Advantage Analog Vs Digital Hearing Aids
You’ve probably heard that today’s hearing aids are “not your grandfather's hearing aids,” or that hearing aid technology is light-years ahead of where it used to be, even as recently as 5 to 10 years ago. But what makes modern technology so much better? And what...
The Top 5 Hearing Aid Myths Exposed
At times, it seems as if we prefer to mislead ourselves. Wikipedia has an entry titled “List of common misconceptions” that contains hundreds of widely-held but false beliefs. Yes, I know it’s Wikipedia, but take a look at the bottom of the web page and you’ll see...
How to Read Your Audiogram at Your Hearing Test
You have just concluded your hearing test. The hearing specialist is now entering the room and provides you with a graph, like the one above, except that it has all of these signs, colors, and lines. This is supposed to demonstrate to you the exact, mathematically...
How to Persuade Someone to Get a Hearing Test
We don’t need to tell you the signs of hearing loss; you already know them all too well. You have a completely different type of challenge: persuading someone you care about to get their hearing assessed and treated. But how are you expected to get through to someone...
5 Reasons Why People Deny Hearing Loss
It takes the average person with hearing loss 5 to 7 years before getting a professional diagnosis, notwithstanding the fact that the warning signs of hearing loss are obvious to others. But are those with hearing loss just too stubborn to get help? No, actually, and...
What to Expect at Your Hearing Exam
If the unknown provokes anxiety, then a visit to the hearing specialist is especially nerve-racking. While nearly all of us have experience with the family doctor and the neighborhood dentist, the trip to the hearing specialist could be a first. It sure would be...
Exploring a Career in the Hearing Care Profession
Although most of us remain up to date with our annual physical, dental cleaning, and eye examination, we generally forget to give consideration to the well-being of our hearing. And when our hearing does start to worsen, it appears so slowly and gradually that we...
Avoiding the Biggest Mistake in Treating Your Hearing Loss
Do you recall the Q-Ray Bracelets? You know, the magnetic bracelets that vowed to provide instantaneous and significant pain relief from arthritis and other chronic conditions? Well, you won’t find much of that advertising anymore; in 2008, the producers of the Q-Ray...
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