Send us a text The quiet slide from “Huh?” to “I can hear” is rarely a straight line. Jerry—a veteran, entrepreneur, and university instructor—opens up about years of coping with a high-frequency hearing loss that turned restaurants into noise walls and classrooms into cognitive marathons. He tried to compensate: sitting close, reading lips, taking exhaustive notes to plug gaps. The breakthrough came when he moved beyond “good devices” to a best-practice fitting with real-ear measurement that...
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Send us a text The quiet slide from “Huh?” to “I can hear” is rarely a straight line. Jerry—a veteran, entrepreneur, and university instructor—opens up about years of coping with a high-frequency hearing loss that turned restaurants into noise walls and classrooms into cognitive marathons. He tried to compensate: sitting close, reading lips, taking exhaustive notes to plug gaps. The breakthrough came when he moved beyond “good devices” to a best-practice fitting with real-ear measurement that...
Friday Audiogram: When You Can Hear But Can't Understand
Hearing Matters Podcast
9 minutes
1 month ago
Friday Audiogram: When You Can Hear But Can't Understand
Send us a text Have you ever met someone who says they can hear perfectly fine, but still struggles to understand speech, especially in noisy environments? That puzzling disconnect might be explained by Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) – a condition affecting what our brains do with the sounds our ears detect. Dr. Angela Alexander reveals a startling finding from the Framingham cohort study: approximately 20% of adults who report hearing difficulties actually have normal hearing t...
Hearing Matters Podcast
Send us a text The quiet slide from “Huh?” to “I can hear” is rarely a straight line. Jerry—a veteran, entrepreneur, and university instructor—opens up about years of coping with a high-frequency hearing loss that turned restaurants into noise walls and classrooms into cognitive marathons. He tried to compensate: sitting close, reading lips, taking exhaustive notes to plug gaps. The breakthrough came when he moved beyond “good devices” to a best-practice fitting with real-ear measurement that...
