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Why Hearing is Important
Hearing loss tends to seriously change behavior and slowly destroy quality of life.
Hearing helps to understand the surrounding environment and can alert any coming danger around us.
“Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story” For as long as people have walked the Earth, everyone has been in a tight relationship with the environment. We need food, water, oxygen, and many other things. Since our relationship with the environment is not secured, we learned to react or withdraw to changes extremely fast.
Our hearing systems help us to monitor background noise: rainfall, road traffic, and the echoes of people in the other room. It also monitors body activities: breath, heartbeat, coughing, laughing, etc. We hear our surroundings and people.
Every place has a signature noise, and Tim Hortons sounds significantly different from that of the Airport.
We are unconsciously tracking background sound to upkeep our feeling of being alive and a part of the living word. When we lose the ability to hear the daily activity of our surroundings, we live in a pantomime world. We know the world cuts us off. We fall into depression and anxiety.
Hearing is a part of communication.
Poor conversational skills, difficulty to understand others, and perceptual errors are treated by the public as “dull and unsocial”. It imposes embarrassment and self-criticism.
On a social level, hearing is a communication tool used by everyone in their daily life, to convey information and argue with others.
Depending on the degree of hearing loss, you might be able to hear speech in quiet rooms, but it’s almost impossible to talk with a group of three or more people.
Hearing helps to alert us of any dangerous and prohibited actions.
Hearing these signals tell us the direction of where a sound is coming from. We don’t stop because someone said “Fire”, but because we hear the shrill sound of the fire truck’s siren. We need to hear a warning signal like an ambulance siren, a doorbell, or a car when we cross the street.
Losing the ability to hear warning sounds causes a feeling of insecurity and puts us at risk, because our vision can only see distant objects, but sounds can bend around corners and warn us of many things before we see them.
Losing the ability to hear warning sounds causes a feeling of insecurity and puts us in risk, because our vision can only see distant objects, but sounds can bend around corners and warn us of many things before we see them.
It impacts:
- intimacy, friendship, family relationship
- communication in the health care setting (e.g., understanding a therapeutic plan)
- talking to the clerk at a store
- talking in a car
- listening to music
- learning foreign languages
- understanding accents
- employment
- using a phone
- misunderstanding the clients
- communication with colleagues
It causes:
- High level of emotional distress
- Sustained visual and auditory attention for understanding what people are saying.
- Bluffing is a form of lying which is treated by others as lacking interest in what is being said.
Hearing contributes to the aesthetic pleasure of listening to music and sounds of nature.
Music stimulates the brain, mind, body, and sensitivity. It reduces anxiety, high blood pressure, and pain. It also improves sleep, boosts moods, motivation, mental alertness, and memory.
Hearing aids help capture enough of the desired sounds and rhythms to stimulate your imagination, recreate familiar and beloved auditory images from music and the natural world to satisfy your needs.1
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Edmonton, AB T6H 4K1 Bus #701 from Southgate