Hearing Aid Limitations

noise

What will always remain a challenge for hearing aids?

quiet

technology advances helped improving speech in ____ but less success in noise

rapid in nature

speech is…

acoustical nature of speech

enormous variation i syllables intensity during speech

consonants

in speech, which sounds are soft and have a high frequency

vowels

in speech, which sounds are loud and low frequency

“th”

What’s the quietest consonant?

“ahh”

what’s the loudest vowel

severe to profound hearing losses

What hearing losses have limited range of audibility?

cochlear implant is the second line of treatment

What do you do if hearing aids won’t help a patient due to their severe to profound hearing loss?

high frequencies

hearing aids can provide relatively little benefit at ______

low frequencies

Hearing aids are good with…

are better with high frequencies

cochlear implants

the round window

where does the cochlear implant enter through?

It will reduce another feature

If you increase one thing on a hearing aid, what will it do to another feature?

try to limit additional features and keep at default settings

if you want the best sound quality on a hearing aid, what should you do?

The audiologist

Who should be programming a patient’s hearing aids?