Hearing health tips, news, and resources from our registered audiologists across Nova Scotia.
Some individuals with hearing loss need more than just hearing aids. While hearing aids can improve communication in many environments sometimes hearing aids alone are not enough! There are devices designed to help hearing impaired individuals throughout the day. Wake Up: Vibrating and/or flashing alarm...
Zen was designed to provide relief for those with tinnitus. Zen is a feature present in Widex hearing aids that can be activated for individuals with tinnitus. Zen makes tinnitus less noticeable by producing zen tones which are either chime-like or white noise. Your audiologist...
Widex has a range of wireless accessories to help in many challenging listening environments. Remote: control over volume and program adjustments (left) TV device: streams audio from the television to hearing aids (center) Bluetooth remote: enables pairing of cell phone and hearing aids for phone conversations,...
Widex recently launched a new hearing aid – WIDEX DREAM. This new hearing aid enables you to hear in greater detail all the sounds in your environment. One great new feature of this hearing aid is MY.WIDEX.COM. This website is set up for you and...
At Hearing Institute Atlantic we have a wonderful Client Service team who keep our clinics running. We want to take this opportunity to say thank you for all their hard work. Happy Administrative Professionals’ Day to: Paula in our Dartmouth Clinic Kim in our Gladstone Clinic...
A Bone Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA) is a medically implanted hearing aid based on the principles of bone conduction. Using vibrations of the skull, the hearing aid (which is implanted directly into the skull) sends the signal to the hearing organs (cochlea). It is primarily...
Many of us have memories of our grandparent’s hearing aids squealing a head-ache inducing screech. For some people, memories of those “dead give-away” squeals deter them from searching for a solution for their hearing loss. The good news is, today’s digital hearing aids have feedback suppression...
Ears often get the bad reputation when it comes to hearing. However, the ears just deliver the appropriate sound signals to the auditory portions of the brain. It is up to the brain to make a coherent message with those sound signals; this is called...
Some of the world’s best medical researchers are examining how to cure hearing loss caused by damaged hair cells and nerve fibres. While hearing aids and other hearing devices (such as cochlear implants) change people’s lives, they are not cures for hearing loss; they are aids...
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