Have you — or has someone you know — ever gone to a play, seminar, house of worship, or musical performance, optimized your hearing device settings, and still had trouble hearing? Why does this happen? Hearing in Public Spaces When...
Apple User Connectivity Guide
Quick Steps: Before Pairing: ensure Bluetooth is enabled on your streaming device. Open and close the battery doors of the hearing aids (turn off and on rechargeable aids) to put them into pairing mode. Step 1: Ensure Bluetooth is turned...
5 Tips to Improve Your Hearing Now
Did you know? About 360 million children and adults — more than 5 percent of the global population — have disabling hearing loss, according to the World Health Organization. During Better Hearing Month, celebrated in May, we have the exciting...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update
PRACTICE NOTICE Updated 5/11/2020 For the health and safety of our patients and staff, our Kauai & Kona clinics will be by appointment only. Please call or email to schedule your in-clinic, curbside repair, or telehealth appointment. No walk-ins. Our...
Three Cheers for Earwax!
Let’s talk earwax. From its texture to its appearance, it gets a bad name. We suspect the yellow-brown goo might be down a friend or two, so we want to give credit where credit is due. Here are five reasons...
Ke Ala E Lohe Maika’i A’i – The Way To Better Hearing
Avoid the Risk of Isolation, Depression, and Cognitive Decline that can accompany Untreated Hearing Loss Awareness of Sound Voids Meet your Doctor Bring a companion Share hearing concerns Set better hearing goals Complete Hearing Assessment Get tested Discuss results Create...
Home Safety for People With Hearing Loss
So many things around the house are designed to alert you using noise. But what if a hearing loss means you miss when the smoke detector or alarm clock sounds? The following alerting devices are ideal methods for helping...
Four Animal Facts: Hearing Edition
Do Cats Enjoy Cat Music? The answer is yes, cats do enjoy cat music! Read on for details and to learn more quirky facts about hearing in the animal kingdom. Katydids Have Ears on Their Knees But not so fast:...
Q&A: Live Speech Mapping
Q: What is live speech mapping, and how can it help me? A: Excellent question! Live speech mapping is a mechanism for fine‑tuning hearing aids to the specific pitch and volume of your loved one’s voice and other important sounds....
Apple iOS 13 Update Affecting Your Hearing Aid Connectivity? Here’s the Fix.
Uh-oh! The September 2019 release of Apple’s iOS 13 mobile operating system introduced some exciting changes — the new dark-mode option, expanded photo-editing tools, increased language support, and more — but it also brought a few headaches. Amid the lost...