How Long is the Treament?

How Long is the Treatment?

Understanding the Timeline

Adapting to hearing aids is a gradual process that requires time and patience. It typically takes a minimum of 120 days to notice significant improvements. This period allows users to fully perceive a broad spectrum of sounds, especially high-pitched consonants such as SH, TH, S, and F, which are crucial for clear speech comprehension.

Personalized Hearing Loss Solutions

Since every individual’s hearing loss is unique, we provide tailored support that includes:

• Brain Training for Artificial Sounds: A comprehensive guide to help your brain adapt to the new sounds produced by hearing aids.
• Confidence Building: Strategies to boost your confidence, enabling you to live your life to the fullest with your new hearing aids.
• Skill Development for Daily Activities: Tips and training to use your hearing aids effectively in daily activities, ensuring comfort and preventing complications.
• Acoustic Knowledge: Education about room acoustics and how various environments can affect sound quality.
• Communication Strategies: Guidance on positioning and techniques to facilitate lip reading, enhancing your ability to communicate in different settings.

Commitment to Your Hearing Health

Learning to use hearing aids effectively involves not only understanding how they work but also integrating them into your work and leisure activities. Our dedicated approach ensures that you gain not only the tools but also the knowledge to make the most of your hearing aids in any situation.

2nd appointment – beginning of a mandatory trial period (45 min)

A properly programmed hearing aid will be delivered to you at this appointment

Part 1. Fitting

• Instructions on insertion and removal of hearing aids.
• Demonstration of how to operate hearing aids for their best performance.
• Ensure compatibility of your aid with your cell phone and cordless phones and enable the T-switch.
• Instruction on using a phone and apps.
• Guidance on caring for and maintaining your hearing device in the best condition.
• Counseling on wearing schedule, expectations, etc.
• Providing self-help literature.

Part 2. Validation

• Perform a Real-Ear Measurement (REM) test to confirm the appropriate amount of gain provided by hearing aids for soft, comfortable, and loud sounds.
• Verify that hearing aids optimize speech understanding and speech quality.

4th appointment – the end of the mandatory trial period (30 min)

• Discuss your experience with wearing the hearing aids and make adjustments if needed.
• Move to the next level of adaptation (software) based on your progress.
• Provide counseling on using assistive listening devices for TV, talking in a car, and for hands-free access to your cell phone, etc.
• Document hearing improvement using subjective tests.

6th appointment (6 months) if needed (30 min)

• Discuss your experience & adjustments if needed