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Untreated Hearing Loss May Leave You More Vulnerable to Falls
Balance is easy to take for granted, but it’s so essential to our ability to be engaged, active and independent in our daily lives. It helps you do everything from going to the grocery store…
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How to Adjust to Hearing Your Own Voice with Hearing Aids
If you’re new to hearing aids, there’s a lot you have to learn, including how to get used to the sound of your own voice. In fact, according to one study published in Trends in…
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Get into the Spooky Spirit with Hearing Aids
Halloween is approaching quickly, which means it is time to start thinking about what costume you’re going to be wearing. If you use hearing aids, you may even consider making them part of your costume…
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What Is Cookie Bite Hearing Loss?
Despite the name, cookie bite hearing loss does not occur after a particularly loud bite of snickerdoodle from The Sugar Shack Bakery. Instead, it gets its name by the U-shape it creates on an audiogram,…
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Four Tips for Dining Out With Hearing Loss
The bustle and background noise of places like Horizon’s Restaurant can make dining out a challenge for people with hearing loss. Thankfully, there are several ways to help yourself hear better and enjoy your dining…
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Understanding the Results of Your Hearing Test
Hearing loss is a common condition that gets more likely as we age. If you’ve noticed that you’re having to turn up the television louder than usual or that conversations are harder to follow when…
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How Does Hearing Loss Impact Learning in Young People?
Hearing is one of the most important senses when it comes to the learning process. This is because ‘overhearing’ is how children learn the bulk of their vocabulary. Students with hearing loss don’t have the…
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4 Ways to Be an Ally to People with Hearing Loss
Hearing loss exists on a spectrum. Some have profound or complete hearing loss that doesn’t respond to treatment. Others have mild to moderate cases that may go unnoticed by those around them. Regardless of severity,…
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What is Unilateral Hearing Loss?
What is Single Sided Deafness? Sometimes referred to as unilateral hearing loss, single sided deafness is a condition in which an individual experiences hearing loss in only one ear but can hear normally out of…
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What is Sudden Hearing Loss?
For most people who experience hearing loss, the condition comes on gradually over a period of years. In rare cases, an abrupt loss of hearing occurs with little or no warning. This condition is known…
