How Long is the Treament?

Selecting, applying, and getting used to wearing hearing aids take time and patience.

It takes a minimum 120 days to feel significant improvement: to hear the whole spectrum of sounds and most importantly, high pitch consonants like SH, TH, S and F.

• • Because each clients’ hearing loss is a special case, we will give you as many appointments as they need:
  • A guide on how to train your brain to learn new artificial sounds.
  • Developing the confidence to live your life to the fullest with hearing aids
  • Developing skills to perform daily activities with confidence and comfort while avoiding complications.
  • Learning how to use your hearing aids in work and in leisure.
  • Learn about room acoustics and how sound can be distorted in some situations.
  • Learn how to position themselves to facilitate lip reading.

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
• We will show you how to operate hearing aids for their best performance
• We will make sure that your aid is compatible with your cell phone and cordless phones and that the T-switch is enabled. 
• You will know how to use a phone and apps
• We will show you how to care for and maintain your hearing device in the best condition.
• Counselling; wearing scheduled, expectations etc.
• Providing self-help literature

Part 2. Validation

We will perform a 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 & adjustments if needed
• Move to the next level up adaptation (software)
• Counselling on using assistive listening devices for TV, talking in a car, for hand-free access to your cell phone etc.
• Hearing improvement will be documented using subjective tests

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

• Discuss your experience & adjustments if needed