Beyond Traditional Hearing Aids: CROS

21 Mar Beyond Traditional Hearing Aids: CROS

What is a CROS aid?

Contralateral Routing of Signal or more commonly CROS aids are designed for single sided deafness. If there is a profound hearing loss in one ear that cannot be helped by a traditional hearing aid a CROS aid can be considered. A CROS aid can be used in 2 ways:

1. CROS: One ear is normal and there is no usable hearing in the other ear
2. BiCROS: One ear has hearing loss and there is no usable hearing in the other ear.

CROS hearing aids come in many different styles

For more information:

• Phonak: http://www.phonak.com/com/b2c/en/products/hearing_instruments/cros/overview.html
• Unitron: http://unitron.com/content/unitron/ca/en/consumer/hearing_aids-c/products/tandem/overview.html