Virus update

Ears to You remains committed to providing quality hearing care during these trying days.
We plan to continue seeing patients, but our schedule has been structured so that only one patient is in the office at any one time.
Walk-ins are allowed if no other patients are present. Patients may be accompanied by a family member or friend as desired.
Patients are asked to use hand sanitizer or wash their hands upon arrival. Patients with symptoms such as cough, fever, shortness of breath,
or muscle aches are asked to reschedule. Surfaces are cleaned following each appointment.

One patient emailed us, “You are essential personnel.” 🙂

David A. Taylor, MA
Audiologist & Hearing Aid Specialist
Ears to You

Ears to You

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Is your audiologist stuck in the past?

I spoke with a gentleman yesterday who told me about his visit to an audiologist. This man had a complaint of difficulty when listening to speech in a background of noise. This was his only complaint. The audiologist tested him and declared his hearing normal. What’s wrong with this picture? The audiologist was either not willing or not able to address this man’s complaint.

Further questioning revealed that he was tested using speech and tones in quiet. There was no speech in noise testing. Recorded test materials that contain speech in noise have been widely available for more than a decade. The most commonly used speech in noise test is quick to administer and is not expensive. Yet some audiologists still restrict their protocols to testing in quiet.

The moral to this story is that patients need to learn as much as possible about their hearing test and how it relates to their complaints. Speech in noise testing is a routine part of the protocol at Ears to You.

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“I never realized how much I was missing!”

I heard it again last week when a patient came in for some minor hearing aid maintenance. “I never realized how much I was missing!” She said this when we had her hearing aids back up to speed and she was ready to leave the office. The remark was in reference to how she was hearing a couple of years ago, before she was properly fitted with a pair of hearing aids. Please keep the remark in mind as you consider the following: [Read more…]