Audio Information and Media
Hearing empowers us and enriches our lives. Hearing enables us to socialize, work, and even relax. Hearing also helps to keep us safe by providing awareness in our environment or alerting us to someone else’s distress.
Good hearing become an essential part of life and allows us to be able to live and participate in life fully without limitations.
Hearing is important to connect; when it is affected, connections get affected too.
Family members get trouble in communicating due to breakdowns in the conversations.
Breakdowns can happen at many levels, a person with hearing problem might not be able to hear family member calling, or not actually answering what the family member have asked for. When this communication breakdown increases, it could bring more confusion and stress for family members. One example might be when a family member speaks loudly at all times, it may lead to exhaustion on their part and just avoid talking to the person with hearing loss at all!
Family counselling and understanding of hearing loss is very important, at Hearing Partners we highly recommend to have family members included during the counseling session.
A person with hearing loss can get help with hearing devices, but the family need to be always understanding and co-operative, our specialists guide the families along with person with hearing issues. Outcomes
are more positive with an active and constant family support.
Source: “Evaluation of the Social and Economic Costs of Hearing Impairment, October 2006, Hear-it AISBL
Hearing is a complex sense which involves the ear’s ability to detect sounds and the brain’s ability to interpret and give meaning to those sounds. Factors that determine how much the hearing loss will negatively affect a person’s quality of life include:
the degree of the hearing loss (how much hearing is gone)
the pattern of hearing loss across different frequencies (low or high pitch)
whether one or both ears is affected
the areas of the auditory system that are not working normally—such as the middle ear, inner ear, neural pathways, or brain
the ability to recognize speech sounds
the history of exposures to loud noise and drug-related toxins that are harmful to hearing
Age
Hearing aids help to reduce deterioration in psychological functioning as a result of hearing impairment.
Reference: Source: “Evaluation of the Social and Economic Costs of Hearing Impairment, October 2006, Hear-it AISBL
