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Hearing aid features
Hearing aids are far more technologically advanced than even a decade ago. Some of today’s devices essentially function as smartphone headsets. You can take calls, stream music and podcasts, and even track health metrics with your hearing aids.
Those high-tech features are nice, but they drive up the cost of hearing aids. You can save money by choosing only the features you really need.
Most hearing aids have a combination of the following popular features:
Multiple channels to adjust the volume of certain frequencies, such as high-pitched or low-pitched sounds, based on your specific type of hearing loss
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ASHA Encourages Steps to Make Communication More Accessible for the 48 Million Americans With Hearing Loss
ASHA strongly supports all public health measures designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. However, we also want to make the public aware of the tremendous challenges that people who are deaf or hard of hearing are experiencing right now which are only poised to increase with double masks. ROCKVILLE, Md. (PRWEB) February 01, 2021 As government and public health officials increasingly recommend the practice of wearing two masks to help protect against new and more contagious variants of COVID-19, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is encouraging the public to be aware of the undue challenges that this measure will pose to people who are deaf
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