Hearing impairments

[milkloss]

Our girl (8) has had bilateral low frequency hearing loss since we were able to recognise it and get tested. It doesn’t affect her much day to day apart from some difficulty hearing teachers and in noisy situations. Following an extensive test (approx 2 hectares of igl2 in cost!) it was suggested she had some help

her cochlear works 100% and the assumption is that the bones in her ear are malfunctioning most likely. This means bone induction (not implants) should work well. There are systems that work with the teacher wearing a Bluetooth mic to enable her to hear the teacher better and still leave her ears to function for peripheral sound.

does anyone have experience?

 

[RWG Contracts]

Our girl (8) has had bilateral low frequency hearing loss since we were able to recognise it and get tested. It doesn’t affect her much day to day apart from some difficulty hearing teachers and in noisy situations. Following an extensive test (approx 2 hectares of igl2 in cost!) it was suggested she had some help

her cochlear works 100% and the assumption is that the bones in her ear are malfunctioning most likely. This means bone induction (not implants) should work well. There are systems that work with the teacher wearing a Bluetooth mic to enable her to hear the teacher better and still leave her ears to function for peripheral sound.

does anyone have experience?

No experience with this sorry but my NHS hearing aids are Bluetooth connected to my phone, if I’m at a discussion group where there is a speaker I can turn my phone into mic mode and put it next to speaker and it plays the phone mic into my ear.

 

[milkloss]

No experience with this sorry but my NHS hearing aids are Bluetooth connected to my phone, if I’m at a discussion group where there is a speaker I can turn my phone into mic mode and put it next to speaker and it plays the phone mic into my ear.

Yes, we thought about that and I believe it works really well. The problem we had with the mic idea was making sure it was where it needed to be at the right time. Fine if a couple of other kids have the same problem.
The idea was that she learnt to cope with the best available and she’s doing extremely well too I’m proud to say.

 

[ollie989898]

Treatments/devices and the like for hearing are improving all the time. I don't know much about it but the NHS seems keen to finance these things because they know how important hearing is for brain health and child development. The ear is sort of comprised of two compartments. The outer part you can physically see is less important for hearing and can be totally absent (developmental/congenital problems with the outer ear are relatively common); you'll still be able to hear because it's the inner part with the clever cells that do the magic provided the sound is carried to them by an implant or similar.

 

[Wilts]

hi i'm deaf on one side, where the 3 bones within the ear are fused.. and hearing aids are crude to over come it so dont' bother.. it always comes down to back ground noise for me, i now days tend to work with 1 in ear head phone in my good ear to listen to quit pod casts or music, really helps consentration and can hear parlour stuff fine

 

[ollie989898]

hi i'm deaf on one side, where the 3 bones within the ear are fused.. and hearing aids are crude to over come it so dont' bother.. it always comes down to back ground noise for me, i now days tend to work with 1 in ear head phone in my good ear to listen to quit pod casts or music, really helps consentration and can hear parlour stuff fine

Are you able to hear in the affected ear with bone conducting earphones or not?

 

[tomcat67]

I have hearing loss due to the fact that all of the little hairs in my ears have laid down. It is really bad in crowded rooms and when people mumble. I can hear higher frequencies better. I have hearing aids, but don’t get on with them due the shape of my ear canals. I did try some Shokz OpenRun bone conduction headphones in conjunction with the Petralex app and my phone as a microphone. The sound was good but clear but unfortunately there was a delay of about a second between someone, including me, talking and the sound being transmitted through the headphones. Trying to have a conversation like that was one of the most difficult things I have done. I hasten to add that the Shokz OpenRun headphones work very well if you use them as intended which is listening to music/podcasts etc, and your ears stay open for periphery sounds.

 

[mike9199]

I am a police officer and started my career with a mild loss. Twenty years later, I now have moderate to severe loss. I do find myself isolated and lonely. I recently got a pair of lyric hearing aid and learning to adjust to them. I waited so long because of the fear of losing the job I love most. I am now paying the price.