Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids

Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids

Americans Soon To Benefit From Affordable Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids The Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017 recently gained full implementation. This result comes five years after Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) first sponsored the bill. A final rule by the...
How To Clean Your Hearing Aids

How To Clean Your Hearing Aids

According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, nearly 29 million adults could benefit from the use of hearing aids. If you are new to using hearing aids yourself, you are probably wondering just how important it is to clean them. In...
What Is An Audiogram?

What Is An Audiogram?

Some amount of hearing loss is expected as people age, but a rapid progression of loss can represent the need for medical intervention. As people mature, they will typically undergo several hearing exams. As a child, you likely took a hearing test or two, and once you...
New Trends in Hearing Aids

New Trends in Hearing Aids

Basic hearing aids help those with hearing loss process sounds, and they have helped millions of people to have a better quality of life since they were introduced. The first electric hearing aids were invented around the turn of the 19th century. Today’s advanced...
Protecting Your Hearing Aids in Water

Protecting Your Hearing Aids in Water

Hearing aids are an essential tool for the 30 million people over 12 who suffer from hearing loss in the U.S. There are a variety of different types of hearing aids that work in different ways, but most function by receiving sound through a microphone and amplifying...
A Quick Progression of Closed Captioning

A Quick Progression of Closed Captioning

For deaf populations, closed captioning is essential for providing a text alternative to audio dialogue and the audio cues that are necessary or relevant to the program’s soundtrack. Closed captioning keeps deaf and hard-of-hearing populations abreast of the...