Listen, Learn & Talk

Fitting Hearing Aids

 

 

A hearing instrument is something personal. It is adapted to your hearing impairment, the shape of your ear and in many cases to your listening preferences.

 

Discovering the hearing impairment
A hearing loss in children may be discovered straight after birth or later on, for example, with a behavioral test or by observing language development.

 

For adults, the way to a hearing instrument fitting often begins with a feeling that one’s hearing is not as it should be. This feeling may originate from situations where one has to ask for sentences to be repeated or when other people complain that the television is too loud while we regard it as comfortable.

 

If you suspect a hearing impairment contact a hearing care professional as soon as possible.

 

1^st session with the hearing care professional: diagnosis, choice of hearing instrument

A hearing care professional or an Audiologist determines with the help of a hearing test whether a hearing loss is present. If not, you won’t need any further help. In case a hearing loss is present, the kind and degree of your hearing loss is determined individually for each ear and entered in an audiogram. The hearing care professional presents you with the technological possibilities that would help in your case.

The hearing loss, the shape of your ear canals, your needs, taste and budget are all taken into account to make the right decision concerning your hearing instruments and their technology, be it an in-the-ear or a behind-the-ear-model, digital, digitally programmable, with or without a remote control or FM-receiver etc.

The hearing care professional will take an ear impression, an accurate replica of your ear canal, which is the basis for the ITE-shell (in case ITEs are used) or the BTE-ear mold.