Severe Sensorineural Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implants - Part Two
The key concept that I took away from meeting my implanted patient is this: she’s going to keep on improving, while my hearing ability can
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Sally Jackson RHAD
- Jul 13
- 3 min
Severe SensorineuralHearing Loss and Cochlear Implants - Part One
How severe, high-frequency, sensorineural hearing loss affects patients, and how audiologists deal with it. Cochlear implants are next.
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Dr James Jackson
- Jun 26
- 2 min
Assistive Listening Devices - Guest Post by Dr James Jackson
As a Widex hearing aid wearer, I naturally need Widex gadgets, but I thought I would post on just how important these peripherals are,
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Sally Jackson RHAD
- Jun 9
- 4 min
Review of Widex Smart RIC MOMENT 440 Hearing Aids
This is Widex's brand new, facelifted product. It's the same Moment platform/generation inside as the previous aids, but the design has bee
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Sally Jackson RHAD
- Feb 21
- 4 min
What Does Frequency Lowering Do For Me?
Frequency lowering comes in two main flavours, frequency compression and frequency transposition. Both of these are strategies to bring ver
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Sally Jackson RHAD
- Jan 5
- 2 min
Widex Sound Connect Review
The Widex Sound Connect is this cute little USB device here in the image. I've been trying it out with the Moment 440 Sheer RIC aids and it
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Sally Jackson RHAD
- Oct 7, 2023
- 4 min
Losing / Insuring Your Hearing Aids
What you need to know about losing & insuring your hearing aids, and claiming for lost hearing aids.
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Sally Jackson RHAD
- Oct 7, 2023
- 2 min
Is it bad if you wear two different kinds of hearing aids (one on each ear)?
Can you wear different hearing aids on each side?
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Sally Jackson RHAD
- Sep 15, 2023
- 1 min
Do IIC hearing aids (inside the canal) provide better hearing improvement than BTE (behind-the-ear)?
IIC have a fixed vent which means it can’t be changed as your hearing loss progresses (this hamstrings the audiologist who has to progressiv
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Sally Jackson RHAD
- Jul 9, 2023
- 6 min
“He won’t wear his hearing aids” - refusing to rehabilitate.
It’s not possible for an audiologist to remove unwanted sounds and only give back amplified speech on demand.
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Sally Jackson RHAD
- Jul 8, 2023
- 3 min
Does wearing hearing aids accelerate hearing loss?
Does wearing hearing aids accelerate hearing loss?
Not as a rule, no. There has been research done on this, and the study I read (apologies
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Sally Jackson RHAD
- Feb 18, 2023
- 6 min
Widex Sound Assist (Table Microphone) Full Length Review
I review the new Widex Sound Assist table microphone / partner microphone as a hearing aid end user and as an audiologist.
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Sally Jackson RHAD
- Sep 4, 2022
- 4 min
Pros and Cons of Invisible Hearing Aids
The pros and cons of “invisible hearing aids”. Are invisible hearing aids right for me? Let’s take a look!
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Sally Jackson RHAD
- Aug 21, 2022
- 6 min
Do I Need to Upgrade my Hearing Aids?
Let’s talk about whether you need to upgrade your hearing aids, and if they really are “obsolete”.
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Sally Jackson RHAD
- Jul 31, 2022
- 3 min
Why do NHS hearing aids whistle (or hurt, or are too quiet etc etc)?
I meet a lot of people who are having problems with their NHS aids and are thinking of going private because of them. This is not a bad...
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Sally Jackson RHAD
- May 29, 2022
- 2 min
Are there hearing aids that separate sounds? I hear everything all at once…
Yes indeed there are! Basic hearing aids will amplify all sound inputs equally, so loud background noise that’s roughly the same volume as t
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Sally Jackson RHAD
- Feb 27, 2022
- 1 min
Memories are made of this (humongous NHS hearing aids).
Remember the good old days? Returning glass bottles for your 10p deposit back. Chocolate bars that could fill you up til teatime. No...
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Sally Jackson RHAD
- Feb 27, 2022
- 1 min
Remember These?
A friend kindly took a picture of this little beauty on his recent trip to a medical museum. This body-worn hearing aid might be...
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Sally Jackson RHAD
- Feb 15, 2022
- 2 min
What Can Bluetooth Do For Me and My Hearing Aids?
A large majority of hearing aids come with some form of wireless technology now. There are proprietary forms but for ease, I’ll refer to...
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Sally Jackson RHAD
- Jan 19, 2022
- 2 min
Can Private Hearing Aids Help Me?
What many of my customers want to know, is can private hearing aids help them? What are the reasons why, in the UK where we have the...
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