HEARING AIDS
Hearing Aid in simple terms is an amplifying device. Hearing aids are the trusted companions for the deaf.
Perhaps you have thought about getting a hearing aid, but you’re worried about how it will look or whether will it help or not. It might help relieve your interests to know more about:
- The hearing aid choices available to you
- What to look for when purchasing the hearing aid
- How to get applied to it
Before going to hearing aids, our Audiologists never forget to get your hearing levels checked by scientific and computerized tests in sound treated rooms. As this is a major concern in the selection of hearing aids.
Hearing aids cannot restore normal hearing, but they help in limiting the hearing loss. They can enhance the hearing by magnifying sounds, helping to hear sounds that you have had difficulty hearing and ensure you that no further hearing loss occurs.
How hearing aids work
Hearing aids utilize the same basic parts to carry the sounds from the environment into your ear & make them louder. Most of the hearing aids are digital, and a hearing aid battery powers all.
Minute microphones assemble sounds from the environment. A computer chip with an amplier converts the incoming sound into the digital code. It examines & adjusts the sound based on the hearing loss, listening requirements and the level of the sounds around you. The amplified signals then converted back into sound waves and delivered to your ears through speakers.
Hearing Aid styles
Hearing aids differ a great deal in price, size, special features, and the way they are placed in your ear.
The following are general hearing aid styles, beginning with the smallest, least visible in the ear. Hearing aid designers keep making minor hearing aids to meet the demand for a hearing aid that is not very noticeable. But the smaller aids might not have the power to give you the improved hearing you may expect.
Digital hearing aids come with the advanced features like Noise Reduction, HD features, Speech enhancer, audio streaming, Bluetooth connectivity, water resistant, integrated signal processor etc.
A full range of technology and a host of features are available in each hearing aid style. The cost of hearing aids frequently depends on the technology and the number of characteristics the instrument has and not significantly on the style selected. Today’s digital hearing aids are typically offered on numerous levels such as entry-level or basic basic to advanced or premium-level. Within each level, various technology & features are available.
- RIC Hearing Aids (Receiver in the canal)
- AIC Hearing Aids (Amplifier in the canal)
- CIC Hearing Aids (Completely in the canal)
- ITE Hearing Aids (In the ear)
- IIC Hearing Aids ( Invisible in the canal)
- BTE Hearing Aids (Behind the ear)
- Micro BTE Hearing Aids
- Power BTE Hearing Aids