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Question: If you wear hearing aids, did you have a long adjustment period?
How long did it take me to adapt to hearing aids? About 3 days. But there’s more to it than that, and other success factors …

Sally Jackson RHAD
Apr 24, 20222 min read
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How Loud Sounds Damage Hearing
How loud noise exposure can damage your hearing, new research shows hidden hearing damage can occur that doesn’t show up in your test.

Sally Jackson RHAD
Feb 27, 20223 min read
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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...

Sally Jackson RHAD
Feb 15, 20222 min read
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Are you getting the most out of your hearing aids?
Busy audiologists can sometimes neglect to tell you about the features of your hearing aids, but since we are all paying the price of new...

Sally Jackson RHAD
Oct 15, 20212 min read
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Dynamic range compression aka the adverts are too loud!
I know, fun right? How can this help me? So, dynamic range compression is where you stop amplifying all input levels at the same ratio. ...

Sally Jackson RHAD
May 19, 20211 min read
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Hearing & Communication Tips - Free Download
Here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Well maybe not, but I hope it is useful. My best and most comprehensive set of...

Sally Jackson RHAD
Mar 23, 20211 min read
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Why do I struggle in background noise?
There are many factors to how well you hear in noise. Of partial importance is your ability to hear! If you have a hearing loss it...

Sally Jackson RHAD
Dec 28, 20202 min read
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Hearing - Use It Or Lose It!
I have been reflecting recently on three cases this year where I have seen customers who have tried to manage for years with their...

Sally Jackson RHAD
Nov 25, 20203 min read
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Smoke Alarms!
If you have a high frequency hearing loss, where the right side of your audiogram drops off a cliff, I will usually mention smoke alarms...

Sally Jackson RHAD
Oct 16, 20202 min read
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Lipreading Classes - Free!
This fantastic site gives free classes online - with subtitles! Council-run classes used to be available, then as time went on became...

Sally Jackson RHAD
Aug 14, 20201 min read
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Hearing Tactics for the Unready...
So you’ve had your hearing test, and hopefully your friendly audiologist has explained your results and prognosis in detail. You know...

Sally Jackson RHAD
Mar 12, 20203 min read
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