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Hearing Aids & Earmolds
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Hearing Aids & Earmolds
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Have you ever noticed that hearing aid
batteries decide to die whenever you don't have any handy? Try this! When you
take the
little paper tab off of a new hearing aid battery, put it on the calendar. This will help
you figure out how long a battery will last (if you haven't figured that out already). Now
you can tell with a quick glance at the calendar when it's time to change batteries,
before they stop working (or at least make sure that you have some spares with you).
If your child's hearing aid is equipped with a
T-switch, you need to make sure it is off when the T-Coil is not in use. The Telecoil can
pick up signals from a number of things making the child unable to hear speech sounds. Two
of the biggest culprits are car engines and computers.
If your little one likes to chew on the
earmolds, earhook, tubing, or hearing aid, try painting them with some THUM (a liquid made
to stop nail biting and thumb sucking). It has a nasty taste which discourages cord
biting.
Some folks have problems with the tubing coming
out of their child's earmolds. I've had a couple of folks tell me that their
audiologist has suggested to them that they use clear nail polish to glue the tubing in
until they could bring the earmold into their office for repairs. If you try this, please
be sure not to get any of the nail polish inside the tube because this would block off any
sound coming through it. Also make sure that the tubing goes all the way through and its
end is flush with the opening of the mold. Those who have tried this report good results.
If your child
has PE tubes in conjunction with hearing aids and they suddenly give a pain
reaction when the hearing aids are inserted, here is something you might want to
know about. Normally, tubes do not interfere with hearing aids. However, when the
tubes come out of the tympanic membrane and lay in the auditory canal, placing the earmold
into the ear may be pushing the tube back up against the tympanic membrane causing pain,
and the possibility of damage to the membrane. Fixing the problem is easy,
but your doctor first has to figure out what's wrong. We went through 8 doctors (and 2 months)
before they figured out the problem. I've heard from a number of parents
whose child also had this happen.
With a Hearing Aid, a Hearing-Impaired Child Can Hear as Well as You - False!
Troubled
by Feedback? Visit our Hearing Aid Feedback
page.You can insure the hearing aids against loss or theft with a rider on your
home insurance policy. When insuring this way, be sure to carefully examine
exactly what is covered. Visit our page on Homeowner's
Coverage!Hearing
Aids & Dolls - Ideas, sources, and a cute story about what one
mother did when her daughter was fit for her first pair of hearing aids.Digital? Programmable?
Multichannel? Analog?Hearing Aid Specs Hearing Aids & Moisture - Preventing moisture from becoming a
barrier to better hearing.If Your Child Won't Keep
Their Hearing Aids In... - some suggestions. Info about Huggie Aids 5 Tips for Assessing the Need for New Hearing Aids
by Paula Rosenthal, J.D.
Sources Of Hearing Aid & Cochlear Implant Funding
- Also great places to donate those
unused hearing aids! AVR's ImpaCt Hearing Aids
- You might also be interested in reading One
Man's Success with ImpaCt Hearing Aids. 
There are a number of ways to insure your hearing aids against loss or damage. All new hearing aids are usually covered for loss or damage under the manufacturers warranty for one or two years. Check your warranty to see for how long, and what is covered. When this warranty runs out, any time you send your hearing aid to the manufacturers for repairs, you can purchase additional warranty coverage. With my son's hearing aids, this is who we've always gone with.
You can insure the hearing aids against loss or theft with a rider on your home insurance policy. When insuring this way, be sure to carefully examine exactly what is covered. Visit our page on Homeowner's Coverage!
There are a number of companies that specialize in insuring hearing aids.
- ESCO - also covers Cochlear Implants
- Midwest Hearing Industries
- SoundAid Hearing Aid Warranties
One mother writes to tell
us something that her audiologist told her; A realistic way to estimate about
how often a child's earmolds should be re-made is to do it about as often as
their shoe size changes.
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