How to get free hearing aids in the US
Cindy from Beethoven’s ears talks about how she got two free digital hearing aids through the Vocational Rehabilitation scheme.
Go read her blog entry to find out more!
Cindy from Beethoven’s ears talks about how she got two free digital hearing aids through the Vocational Rehabilitation scheme.
Go read her blog entry to find out more!
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Steve - thanks for linking to my post!!
Cindy
I need a hearing aids BUT my HMO will not help to pay for is . Beltone gave me a price of 3,300.00 for one Hearing Aid with out tax added in yet. I am not 55 of age I drive a school bus. I am trying to keep my home the bank gets 1,700.00 a mo. that is not lights, food, phone,heat,Gas for car, car inc.and condo fee.I have no cable and if money get low I will have to give up my phone. I only work 30 Hr a week and only when school is in. I need to get a free hearing aids . Is there anyone that can help Thank You for your time: Karen Salvas 80 Broadway Unit 9 North Attleboro Ma. 02760 home phone # 1508-699-1938
how to get a free hearing aid [in sri lanka]
i need another hearingaid and i need to know where i can get a free one from i cannot afford to pay for one i am disabled and my doctor said it would cost me about 1,300.00 to get a digital one and i can not afford one can you tell me where i can get a free one from please where you got your from. thank you geraldine poole
My husband , two boys and I are deaf family we cannot afford to buy a new brand hearing aids today is very very expensive they not accept my husband s insurance we are very upset because we really need hearing aids and my boys reallly need it so badly because of school required to wear them but we cannot afford for that hearing aids too expensive we did struggled for free hearing aids no one helping us we are deaf family we need it so badly please help us we buy only foods gas and clothes we need it but hearing aids are very expensive $$$$$$ Please help us asap thanks……………………..
Karen, Geraldine and Denise,
Did you check out Cindy’s blog entry that I linked to at the top? Is it possible for you to contact Vocational Rehabilitation as Cindy suggested?
Nazeem,
I wouldn’t know where to start with getting a hearing aid in Sri Lanka, sorry.
i am a 43 year old singel mom i have a liver disease and sever diabetioc and outher health challenges i am on disabilty my inc covers the hearing test not the aids i need 2 its same situwation on my eye sight test yes glasses no..my disabilty barily pays rent water gas and elec…tp dish soap etc is a luxery somtimes so i am stuck the doc said not having them it will only get orse am a champ at making do if u can help it ould be grate..voc rehab said no because not preparing for work am disabeld
My brother inlaw is 59, and going def in both ears. He is mentaly inpaird, and lives on dis. of $714.00 a month. How can I find help for him?
I am 40 years old, I have been wearing a hearing aid since I was thirteen, I’m a single parent of two children and I have two elderly living with me and my income is limited and right now mine is broken and I am looking for help in getting one. If anyone could help me I would greatly appreciate it .
I purchased hearing aids from NatureEar that were supposed to have a lifetime warranty on them. The repair that I needed was almost immediately after acquiring them. After a year went by, both hearing aids stopped working. I had to pay a substantial amount of money to have them repaired on this “lifetime warranty”. When I got them back they squealed but did not work; one was split through the silicone body of the aid. When I told them about it, they wanted yet more money to repair it again. I’m obviously not going to throw any more money away on these aids.
Technology on these aids does not exist to replace normal hearing, and insurance companies do not value hearing as an important aspect of health and well-being. Employers DO discriminate more with hearing impaired people than with people who wear glasses to aid them to see better. I do not personally consider one aid better than another. I can actually do better than most people imagine with my deafness because I’ve been dealing with it for so long. However, it is uncomfortable to not be able to hear people when they talk to me. And I’m just as tired of asking them to repeat themselves as they are to do it.
Why can’t hearing aids come down in price and be offered at the local Walmart or the every other corner pharmacy stores? I think that a ITE silicone body right/left set shouldn’t cost more than $99.00 per set at the most. Since most last only a year, it would mean that folks who need them would be buying them yearly. That should be more than enough for the companies who make them to earn a nice tidy profit from our heaing loss; don’t you think?
Can we write to senators, governors, or whoever we need to write to in order to have the hearing aid laws changed so this can happen? I’m under the impression that hearing aids are supposed to have a prescription from a doctor and so forth inspite of the ones that are sold online to anyone who wants them. But they should be readily available to anyone who needs them.
I am a mother who has a simple living,have a 4 children and a deaf hearing impaired both ears,profound and severe hearing loss.I begging to those who have know a sponsors to give my child a hearing aid for free.My son age 8 years old,has a potential to speak so he obligue to wear hearing aid to have a speech theraphy. As a mother I want tto see my child be a normal like an ordinary child.Please help me to find a good samaritan to help my child or a organization that help those hearing impaired children.
seeking new hearing aids- free. I am a full time college student with income that only covers food and gas.
thank you for any ideas.
hello,
I have a chronic disease called paget’s disease,and consquently it is causing me to go deaf.
please help me to hear for my grandchildren sakes they need me.
thank you
sylvia farrar
hello,
I am going deaf , and need a hearing . I am a senior and disabed and need to take care
of my grandchildren this summer. Please help.
thank you
sylvia farrar 323 north broad st. elizabeth nj. 07208 apt 8-a
I am 40 years old, my left ear def more than 60% I am recieving very less salary that is not enough to feed my family, I am looking for help in getting one. If anyone could help me that would be very helpfull and greatly appreciate it .
My goodness I am so saddened reading these stories, I purchased my 1st hearing aid today!!! OMG it’s sad that NO insurance will pay
for anyone that is low income have you tried your local medicaid office I live in New Mexico and ive been told Medicaid pays for them I don’t qualify for medicaid Thank God I am able to make payments..BUT NO CHILD OR LOW INCOME PERSON SHOULD BE WITHOUT A HEARING AID WHEN THEYRE NEEDED!!!!!!!
I am a 61 year old lady and am living on a fixed income and can not afford a hearing aide, I am hoping that there is some place I can go to get one at a cheap price, they are so pricey.
Thank you
I have a friend who cannot afford a hearing aid. If I could buy her one I would, however, I am not in a position to do so. It would be greatly appreciated if I could get information to give to her so that she could get one free. Her husband is unemployed presently and also dealing with medical issue. She is hard working and has insurance at place of employment but will not cover the hearing aid. She is only in need of one for her left ear. I only just discovered that she needs it. I finally asked why she was speaking so loud and this is what she told me.
I hope there is someway for her to receive . thank you in advance
Hi to anyone out there who would like to pay attention to my plea.
I am a 84 year old pensioner living with my daughter in Durban South Africa, and for the last few years I have suffered from severe hearing loss. Even though I am 84 I feel like a 28 year old and my hearing problem is a serious issue within the household. I even battle to hear my grand daughter when she skype’s from the USA where she is working and the last thing I want to do is to miss out on her experience.
As we do not have a medical aid and the price of a good hearing instrument is R30 000.00 which is above my or my daughters financial means, i would like to request that if anyone has a free or minimal payment aid for me, it would be so much appreciated.
God bless and kind regards
Nan Peltz
Ps. My email address is atkinson_moira@yahoo.com.
thank yo so much
Nan Peltz
Hello I’m tara and im deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other ear, and i need to have a hearing aid, because i am in school, college to be exact. my fathers insurance company doesn’t cover hearing aids because “it is not medical” please notify me if you can find sponsors or charities that help people get hearing aids for free. I would highly appreciate it.