The Library: Hearing Centre

Benefits of Customized Hearing Protection

Customized noise reduction earplugs are made from impressions of user’s ear.   This ensures the best fit as protection is molded to fit an individual's ear canal. This helps reduce the discomfort typically experienced after longer use, and provides a superior level of protection.

Quiet the noise once and for all . . .

Tinnitus Retraining Therapy involves a thorough hearing and ear evaluation, a series of directive counseling sessions and the use of sound therapy.  This technique retrains the subconscious to ignore the tinnitus sound through demystifying and explaining the cause of the tinnitus and providing an external source of sound for people to direct their attention toward.  This all results in learning to ignore the associated noise (ringing, buzzing, hissing, humming, etc) of tinnitus.

Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) is a hearing test mainly used for screening hearing of newborns. ABR is used with older children when the audiologist is unable to obtain valid information by an audiogram. The test is non-invasive and painless. Auditory brainstem response is measured by attaching electrodes to the ear lobes and scalp.
 
A series of clicks is presented to each ear through earpieces inserted into the ear canals. Brain wave activity is then measured in response to the clicks.
 

Tympanic membrane is the fancy name for eardrum, so when an audiologist wants to find out how an individual's eardrum is working, he or she may get a tympanogram.

In this test, the audiologist inserts a probe (a foam or rubber tip) into the individual's ear, for 2-3 seconds. The probe is attached to a machine which then makes a quiet noise that should get the individual's eardrum moving.

Fast ForWord is made up of progressive, supervised, computer based activities and exercises.  The exercises focus on building and improving essential cognitive skills such as:

• memory
• attention
• processing and,
• sequencing

The primary goal of the products, currently offered by Meridian Hearing Centre, is to improve auditory processing; subsequent benefits may include improvements in academic performance and social behaviour.

What is An Auditory Processing Problem?
An auditory processing problem is when a child or adult with normal hearing sensitivity and intelligence, has an inability to attend to, discriminate, recognize, remember, or comprehend spoken information.
 
What are the Symptoms?
A person may have an auditory processing problem if he/she displays symptoms of:

When you receive your hearing aid you will be given a cleaning tool kit which includes a brush, wire pick, (or combination tool) and in some cases a vent cleaning stick.   When used daily these tools will help keep your hearing aid clean and clear of debris and working more efficiently.

It's best to establish a daily, regular time for cleaning your hearing aid - most people find it helpful to incorporate cleaning into their night time routine before bed.

When you remove the hearing aids at night:

While the outer ear is a great place to display jewelry, it’s specifically designed to transmit sound. Sound begins as motion. When objects vibrate, molecules of air are set in motion and transmitted as sound waves. The outer ear’s bell-like contours guide and focus these sound waves into the ear canal, where they’re aided and amplified by its spiraling shape.