Signs of Hearing Loss
How To Tell If Your Hearing Needs Attention
Hearing is a critically important sense. In fact, it is the most important sense for communication with other people. It is important to identify signs of hearing loss and catch them as early as possible.
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Hearing Info Signs of Hearing Loss
Hearing Info Signs of Hearing Loss
People with Hearing Loss Often:
- On the telephone
- When more than one person is speaking
- When watching television
- When background noise is present
- Knowing what direction a sound came from
- Hearing in large, reverberant rooms
People with Hearing Loss Will:
- Deny they have a problem or minimize its effects.
- Tend to overcompensate by making believe they hear what people are saying
- Strain to hear
- Watch or read lips
- Ask people to repeat themselves
- Miss telephone calls or the doorbell
- Accuse people of mumbling
- Occasionally make inappropriate responses
Hearing loss can be a tough ailment to identify. By paying close attention to these signs, as well as any other changes that you may notice or that family and friends report to you, you can be alert to the need for a professional hearing evaluation. PHSI hearing programs bring hearing testing and state-of-the-art hearing instruments and ear hearing aids to vision care practices across the United States. Vision and Hearing Together with PHSI.
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