Better Testing

Does my hearing care professional perform a complete test?

AC: Air Conduction
BC: Bone Conduction
SD: Speech Discrimination
SRT: Speech Reception Threshold
MCL: Most Comfortable Volume Level
UCL or LDL: Uncomfortable Volume Level‍

These are the minimum recommended tests by our industry. Speech-in-Noise testing is also highly-recommended, but few offices perform it.

A specialist cannot effectively adjust the hearing aids for background noise without testing your performance in noise. We are noise management EXPERTS.

Does my hearing care professional wear hearing aids?

Hearing loss can’t be taught. Living with hearing loss and wearing hearing aids provides deeper understanding of the differences various room types and noise environments make to the wearer.

Hearing Aid Specialists with hearing loss understand what you’re facing and living with each day.

Is my hearing care professional a clinical expert?

Is my hearing care professional proficient in the software?

Small differences in settings often create huge changes to the performance of the hearing aids. Training is key and experiencing those changes by wearing hearing aids like your patients do is even better.

These are all valid questions

They will have an enormous impact on your hearing aid fitting’s success or failure. Each brand has nuances that distinguish them from each other, but the primary goal is to hear the people in our lives well enough to communicate effectively.