Because hearing aids amplify all sounds, you must relearn to filter out sounds you do not want to focus on, just as one does in the normal hearing process.

Without making a show, inform those with whom you are communicating that you have a hearing problem. Be aggressive about your hearing. You may even want to make some basic suggestions to them,

depending on the significance of the conversation. In turn, they will be noticeably more comfortable in your presence than they were when you could hear less adequately... and it will be a happy new life of better hearing for you. Above all, don't give up. this by far the best advice you will get.

Be realistic

If others and you, expect the hearing aids to make everything sound as it used to, and that all the problems associated with your loss of hearing will be over, neither of you are being realistic.

Hearing aid use tactics

The following "hearing tactics" are methods used to solve the difficulties encountered in your daily life - the practical, technical and psychological concerns caused by the hearing loss. Such concerns may be individual ones and you may have your own solution to resolving them. Yet, others are basic and common. These tactics are intended to help solve some of these. the information in this page should be combined with that of the next pages to achieve maximum effectiveness of the suggestions.

How to listen with hearing aids

Consider the environment

Hard surfaces reflect sound (walls, ceilings and bare floors) and may make it much more difficult to listen. Certain features absorb sound (draperies, carpets, upholstered furniture, and open windows), and make it easier to listen. You may find that you have to adjust the volume control of your hearing aids, and your hearing habits, to the environment. eventually you will find a volume setting which will be comfortable for you under most conditions.

Be fair

When others make an effort to communicate with you, stop what you're doing and listen. If not, you will reinforce their feelings that you really don't care.

Be patient

Remember, many of these situations are also difficult for people with normal hearing! Patience is the key in learning to use hearing aids.

As your listening skills adjust, noise and meaningful information will slowly sort themselves out, and within a month or two you will be using hearing aids with maximum effectiveness.

Patience is especially important in the early stages. Remember that just as hearing is not always lost overnight, it may take time to get used to the sounds hearing aids bring back. You will soon begin to respond automatically to the hearing aids and regain a more natural ability to perceive both the direction and meaning of sounds such as conversation, music or traffic.

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