If you visit our clinic and are diagnosed with a hearing loss, what do you do when hearing aids aren’t hitting the mark?
For many individuals with hearing loss challenges, prescription hearing aid technology provides many benefits for boosting sound in busy spaces and helping them reconnect with loved ones. But for some, hearing aids alone aren’t enough.
Enter assistive listening devices (ALDs): technology designed to help listeners with speech-in-noise concerns hear and understand voices in busy environments.
In conjunction with hearing aids, assistive listening devices can provide significant help for addressing hearing challenges in loud spaces and ensure that everyone gets the chance to hear their loved ones and stay active in their busy lifestyles.
How ALDs Help Hearing Aid Wearers
Let’s say that you’re a hearing aid user, headed to a restaurant with a loved one that you cannot hear among the music and the chatter of the loud environment. A common form of ALD would be a remote microphone, which connects directly to your hearing aids with Bluetooth for direct streaming.
Attach the microphone to your loved one’s shirt or jacket and have them talk normally. Their voice will be picked up by the microphone and streamed directly to your hearing aids so you can hear them clearer and much louder.
ALDs, like the remote microphone, can eliminate distance struggles, help boost your conversation partner’s voice amid the background noise, and reduce your listening effort so that you can enjoy your time out with your loved ones without worries of mishearing or not hearing at all.
Other forms of assistive listening devices include TV streamers, which connect to your hearing aids to deliver TV sound directly to your listening devices, and laptop streamers, which are perfect for taking conference calls for work or listening to music with greater clarity.
Explore Hearing Aid Technology and ALDs
If you’re curious about how advanced hearing technology could help your hearing, you’re in the right place. You can rest assured that our team of experts will help you find the best hearing devices for your needs, whether you’re in need of a boost from ALDs or not.
With the help of a comprehensive hearing assessment to gather the most exhaustive understanding of your current hearing struggles, your audiologist will work with you to decide what devices will work alongside your diagnosis, lifestyle choices, budget, and more.
To find out more information about hearing aids and assistive listening devices or to get in touch with a member of our team to chat about your specific situation, please don’t hesitate to request a callback, or find your closest clinic to give us a call at (410) 944-3100.
We’re here to help with every step of your hearing health journey!
