The Right to Refuse Testing
The support of the entire family plus the extended community is needed for a hearing loss issue to be dealt with.
A whole mix of low emotions is waiting to be unleashed because of this.
If no intervention will be given, a hearing loss today may be a learning difficulty tomorrow along with speech and occupational problems.
The hearing problem may sometimes be caused by a separate medical condition like infection or ear wax, so this needs to be ruled out by your caregivers.
You will then be guided to an ENT specialist or a licensed audiologist.
An audiologist is someone who has special training in testing and fitting hearing aids.
In order to record and gauge a person's hearing loss, audiologists use a number of tests.
This is a test of what a person can and cannot hear by means of different stimuli in form of speech, tones and sounds.
The goal is to have a clear picture of the hearing difficulty as to the residual hearing and the other limitations you might have regarding hearing.
The medical practitioner attending to your case may recommend the most suitable intervention to your needs.
You can bring the hearing aid in your shirt pocket in the form of the Body aid.
The ear piece is latched onto a cord that goes up to your neck.
Another type has a sticky patch that attaches a small plastic piece to the bone behind your ear.
The Behind the Ear or BTE is a small plastic case sits behind your ear with a tube that goes to a mold in your ear.
There is another type which is built into your eyeglass frames and it is called Eyeglass aid.
There is a duct that attaches the mold that is placed deep into your ear.
The In the Ear model consists of a mini plastic case curtailed to fit inside your outer ear.
There is a design aimed to make a plastic covering small enough to fit midway into the ear canal and be just slightly visible from the outside.
Since the tiny mold can completely be inside the ear canal, the CIC is not visible from the outside.
There is an option that involves a surgical procedure and that is to place the Cochlear Implants which are tiny wires placed behind your ear drum.
Soft electricity triggers the primary hearing organ which is the cochlea.
There are plastic ear pieces which the wires attach to.
There is a sound box that is attached to a string that is either worn on the belt or a pocket.
A whole mix of low emotions is waiting to be unleashed because of this.
If no intervention will be given, a hearing loss today may be a learning difficulty tomorrow along with speech and occupational problems.
The hearing problem may sometimes be caused by a separate medical condition like infection or ear wax, so this needs to be ruled out by your caregivers.
You will then be guided to an ENT specialist or a licensed audiologist.
An audiologist is someone who has special training in testing and fitting hearing aids.
In order to record and gauge a person's hearing loss, audiologists use a number of tests.
This is a test of what a person can and cannot hear by means of different stimuli in form of speech, tones and sounds.
The goal is to have a clear picture of the hearing difficulty as to the residual hearing and the other limitations you might have regarding hearing.
The medical practitioner attending to your case may recommend the most suitable intervention to your needs.
You can bring the hearing aid in your shirt pocket in the form of the Body aid.
The ear piece is latched onto a cord that goes up to your neck.
Another type has a sticky patch that attaches a small plastic piece to the bone behind your ear.
The Behind the Ear or BTE is a small plastic case sits behind your ear with a tube that goes to a mold in your ear.
There is another type which is built into your eyeglass frames and it is called Eyeglass aid.
There is a duct that attaches the mold that is placed deep into your ear.
The In the Ear model consists of a mini plastic case curtailed to fit inside your outer ear.
There is a design aimed to make a plastic covering small enough to fit midway into the ear canal and be just slightly visible from the outside.
Since the tiny mold can completely be inside the ear canal, the CIC is not visible from the outside.
There is an option that involves a surgical procedure and that is to place the Cochlear Implants which are tiny wires placed behind your ear drum.
Soft electricity triggers the primary hearing organ which is the cochlea.
There are plastic ear pieces which the wires attach to.
There is a sound box that is attached to a string that is either worn on the belt or a pocket.
