You could hear more by taking your hearing aids out.
How does that work? Well, I was in a meeting yesterday, sat around a table with seven other people - after a while I realised that I wasn’t hearing several of them as well as I normally would be. I did a quick check that the [...]

Whilst I was out at lunch the other day, I got a call from an old friend that I hadn’t spoken to for months. I was outside when he called - it was a windy day.
He was telling me all about his new Flickr photo sets when suddenly he stopped talking mid-sentence and asked, “What’s [...]

Melinda Beck has written in the Wall Street Journal about her experiences with a Widex Inteo aid. It’s an interesting article because it touches on some of the problems that new hearing aid wearers face, such as:
A rush of new sounds: New aid wearers will be hearing many sounds that they haven’t heard for a [...]

The Phonak website has a very interesting page on which they demonstrate what it is like to be partially deaf. The page has a number of links that play everyday sounds, such as people talking in various environments, bird song, a piano, a telephone, etc. You can select one of three options for each sound: [...]

LACE (Listening and Communication Enhancement) is computer software that helps you to improve your listening and vocal comprehension skills.
Hearingaids help you hear, but they don’t help you to listen. This is where LACE comes in. The software runs on Windows and Mac and offers a number of listening tests to train your brain to better [...]