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Noise Reduction In Hearing Aids
1,358 wordsRecently in a local hearing clinic, a clients concerns were discussed. Im afraid I wont like them. My brother in law bought two hearing aids, and he keeps them in a drawer in the kitchen. While the number of people dissatisfied with their hearing aids hovers around 50 %, the hearing aid industry is hard pressed to decrease the number of returns, and increase the average daily use of each aid. In order to accomplish this, hearing aid manufacturers must answer the most often heard complaint: It do...
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Noise Reduction In Hearing Aids
1,312 words... en adjusting for both noise, and sound quality. The most versatile type of ASP (automatic signal processor) comes from PILL circuitry that can provide either a BILL or a TILL response. In order to accomplish this, the instrument must have a minimum of two channel compression. (Tobin 1997) In effect, the audiologist can choose which type of processing better suits his client, while taking into consideration the subjective needs of his client. Presumably, PILL type hearing aids cost more than ...
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Couple Of Days Hearing Loss
1,174 words... ly I called the doctor and he ordered a series of test by the audiologist on the 3 rd floor. The tests were immediately performed and to make along story short, He was Deaf. Dr Simon began to interpret the results of the tests. She said he had a sensori-neural deafness. This is the result of problems with the cochlea (the sensory part) or the auditory nerve (the neural part). About 90 % of all hearing loss is sensori-neural. In most cases of sensori-neural deafness the hairs in the cochlea a...
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Hearing Aids Communication Skills
2,607 wordsAural Rehabilitation Aural rehabilitation when it concerns children has more habilitation character rather than rehabilitative. Rehabilitation presupposes the revival of certain skills. In case with children they do not have any skills to revive and they need assistance to adapt themselves in society with their aural impairments. The communication is the main activity of our social existence and the losses of hearing may cause various negative consequences of the child development. Apart from th...
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Hearing Loss Hearing Impaired
2,199 wordsBeing deaf is a handicap that afflicts millions of people around the world every year. Hearing loss can result from any number of afflictions that can affect the outer, middle, or inner ear. The range of hearing loss can also vary from mild to severe. The ear is made up of the outer, middle and inner ear. The outer ear consists of the auricle, the external auditory canal and the lobe. The outer ear helps to funnel sound and noise into the middle ear. The middle ear consists of the eardrum and th...
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People With Disabilities Means Of Communication
1,657 wordsAs we approach the 21 st century, there are noticeable advancements in technology that is making communication much easier for the people of the world. The people who are now achieving more due to this technology are those with disabilities. The new wave of electronics is coming in the form of assistive technology. Assistive technology is a device or process that helps a person with a disability to do something that could otherwise be difficult or impossible to accomplish. By implementing applia...
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Quality Of Life Hearing Aids
1,127 wordsThe invention of batteries was considered a great discovery by affecting our lives. Has it affected our lives for good or for bad, since the discovery of batteries in around 1800? Before the time of invention a number of discoveries had previously been made. Floriano Caldani (1756) observed that frog legs could be made to contract when a near-by static machine was discharged. Luigi Galvani (1786) rediscovered this phenomenon and apparently unaware of similar work by Jan Swammerdam more than a ce...
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