October 15, 2015 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
In the United States, about 37.5 million adults have some degree of hearing loss. Yet according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), only 20 percent of those who could benefit from hearing aids actually use them. That suggests that millions of Americans who could enhance their life with better hearing choose not to do […]
June 25, 2015 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Most of the time, people are unaware that they have hearing loss. It forms so slowly that it’s commonly undetectable, and on top of that, the majority of family doctors do not consistently test for hearing loss at the yearly physical exam. Bearing in mind these two facts, it’s no surprise that most people first […]
April 19, 2015 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
How to Read Your Audiogram at Your Hearing Test You’ve just concluded your hearing test. The hearing specialist is now coming into the room and presents you with a graph, like the one above, except that it has all of these icons, colors, and lines. This is intended to explain to you the exact, mathematically […]
April 12, 2015 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
We don’t need to explain to you the signs and symptoms of hearing loss; you already know them all too well. You have a very different type of challenge: persuading someone you care about to get their hearing assessed and treated. But just how are you supposed to get through to someone who denies there […]
June 15, 2014 | McDonald Audiology & Hearing Health Care
Hearing loss has many forms – it may occur gradually (for example, due to aging) or suddenly (as the result of an injury or trauma). The hearing loss itself may be short-term or permanent, and may range from mild (having difficulty understanding casual conversation) to severe (total deafness). Moreover, a person might suffer a loss […]
