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- From: tas@pegasus.com (Len Howard)
- Subject: Re: Hearing aids
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.210619.25103@pegasus.com>
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- Summary: Yes, Virginia, fequency selecting hearing aids are!
- Sender: Len Howard
- Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu
- References: <GERRY.92Dec16125546@onion.cmu.edu> <13757@ntdd-1>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 21:06:19 GMT
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- Hi Rolf, I figure you might like a first person validation. I am
- currently using hearing aids that selectively boost frequencies over
- 2000 in proportion to my loss (-90 db at 4000) while leaving the
- lower frequencies unaffected. Sound comes thru the aid in a direct
- path as well as thru the circuit so I hear the lower frequencies
- un-amplified. I have acoustic trauma from 25 years of skeet and
- pistol shooting (much done before the knowledge of what damage it
- does) with the addetive affect of presbyacusis (normal hearing loss of
- aging.)
- All I can tell you is now I can understand conversations in noisy
- background areas, understand what a person 15 feet away in a committee
- meeting is saying, and not have to ask every OR nurse to repeat the
- question.
- One needs to see a registered audiologist who keeps up to date
- with latest techniques, and also see a otolaryngologist that is up to
- date on hearing aids in the first place. The technology is rapidly
- changing......thank God.
-
- Merry Christmas, Rolf Len Howard
-
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