Hearing Wellness Blog
Having hearing loss is a unique experience, and everyone deals with it differently. However, this doesn’t stop people from finding a community online – such as the one we’ve built for you right here. Please explore our Hearing Wellness Blog developed by your Lemme Audiologists, and reach out to us if you want to continue the conversation.
What Can I Do with My Hearing Aid App on My Phone?
New technology provides Bluetooth capability in most hearing instruments. Bluetooth allows for streaming phone calls and music directly to your hearing devices. It also allows for hearing aid adjustments via an App on your Android/iPhone. Depending on what hearing aid...
Service Dogs for Those with Hearing Loss
Service dogs are employed for a variety of different jobs including drug and explosive detection, mental health treatment, hearing loss, vison impairment, and medical assistance. Hearing dogs are trained to assist individuals with severely impaired hearing. Hearing...
Importance of Newborn Hearing Screening
After delivering your baby, he/she will undergo a Newborn Hearing Screening (NBHS). NBHS are now a standard of care in all hospitals. The purpose is identity early onset hearing loss. If hearing loss is detected in the NBHS, the severity and type of hearing loss must...
Billing Questions
When patients call our office, the most frequently asked questions tend to be about their hearing or hearing aids. But, we do often have patients call with billing questions before and after their visits. Below are the most frequently asked questions that we get about...
OTC Hearing Aids: Who, How Much, and Specs.
Over the Counter (OTC) solutions for hearing loss have been available for purchase for many many years. We are sure you have seen these types of “hearing aids” at the pharmacy or on websites already, but now the FDA has regulated them. With the involvement of the FDA,...
Cell Phone Hearing Tips
Sometimes, conversations on cell phones can lead to frustration. Not understanding what the other person is saying, the other person sounding garbled, background noise interfering with the conversation…So, to help you have better conversations on your cell phone, we...
Importance of Early Hearing Treatment
Importance of Early Hearing Treatment The importance of early hearing treatment is usually an afterthought until it is too late. Most people tend to delay treatment of their hearing loss until they cannot communicate. This happens even in the best of listening...
Hearing Loss Increases Risk of Falls
Hearing Loss Increases Risk of Falls and Balance Issues Dr. Frank Lin, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the university's Bloomberg School of Public Health, and his colleague Dr. Luigi Ferrucci found that people with a...
Technology Addressing Hearing
Technology Addressing Hearing Hearing aids are primarily useful in improving the hearing and speech comprehension of people who have hearing loss that results from damage to the small sensory cells in the inner ear, called hair cells. This type of hearing loss is...
Tinnitus Treatment Options
Tinnitus Treatment The primary objective for all currently-available tinnitus treatment options is to lower the perceived burden, allowing the patient to live a more comfortable, unencumbered, and content life. There are several well-established therapies for patients...
