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Hearing Loss and Work: Do You Have the Right Tools to Help?

Hearing Loss and Work: Do You Have the Right Tools to Help?

 

Hearing difficulties can significantly get in the way of you doing your best at work. The good news is that you can overcome your hearing difficulties and achieve your potential at work, in spite of deafness. One of the most important ways to minimize the effect of your hearing loss is by using the right tools at work. Here are three tools we highly recommend.

Hearing Loss and Work: Is Your Employer Helping?

Hearing Loss and Work: Is Your Employer Helping?

 

Finding work and thriving in a job can be difficult, even without the obstacles created by hearing loss. The good news is that when you understand your rights and how the law can help you, you will find yourself in a better position to overcome hearing loss and the obstacles it brings at work. Here are our top tips to ensure that your employer supports you as much as possible and as required.

Coping with Hearing Loss Caused by Ménière's Disease

Coping with Hearing Loss Caused by Ménière's Disease

Here at Advanced Hearing, we believe that understanding the different conditions that affect our ear health and hearing can help us to protect our health. Different technological advancements and medical discoveries are helping those who suffer from hearing loss to live relatively normal, healthy and happy lives. However, before we can find the right treatments and coping strategies that work best, it's important to understand about our hearing loss.

What is Syndromic Hearing Loss?

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If you have been diagnosed with hearing loss, however, it's important to know that the you can live a largely normal, high-quality of life regardless. In most situations, maintaing your quality of life with hearing loss calls treatment and, most often, hearing aids. In order to help you determine if hearing aids may be the right choice for you, we're discussing syndromic hearing loss.

How Do You Treat Genetic Hearing Loss and What Is It?

How Do You Treat Genetic Hearing Loss and What Is It?

 

While some forms of hearing loss occur later in life, such as age-related hearing loss or noise-induced hearing loss, others can onset when we are young. More often than not, hearing loss that occurs at a young age is a form of genetic hearing loss. Let's take a moment to understand genetic hearing loss treatment, as well as how it can be inherited and diagnosed.

The Causes of Hearing Loss: Loud Noises

The Causes of Hearing Loss: Loud Noises

 

Understanding what causes hearing loss can not only help to prevent it, but can also help sufferers to find the best treatment and/or coping strategies for their specific type of hearing loss. If you suspect that you are experiencing noise-induced hearing loss, read further to gain a better understanding of what causes it, who is most likely to experience it, and how to address it. 

The Causes of Hearing Loss: Aging

The Causes of Hearing Loss: Aging

 

As we grow older, our bodies start to change, and things that were once easy often start to become a bit more difficult. Unfortunately, one of the many things that begins to dissipate as we get older is our ability to hear. If you suspect that you have age-related hearing loss, it's important to understand what it is, how it happens, its effects, and what you can do about it. 

Understanding the Types of Hearing Loss: Cortical Deafness

Understanding the Types of Hearing Loss: Cortical Deafness

 

Having a good understanding of different hearing losses can empower sufferers to make informed choices about the best next steps. This is why we aim to offer information about each hearing loss type to help you make the right choices, as well as save time and money. Today, we are taking a deeper look into a  lesser common form of hearing loss: cortical deafness.

Understanding the Types of Hearing Loss: Mixed Hearing Loss

Understanding the Types of Hearing Loss: Mixed Hearing Loss

 

Being able to understand the differences between hearing loss types can help those who suffer from hearing loss, and those who help sufferers, to choose the right hearing aids and treatments. Every person with hearing loss needs a hearing aid tailored to the type of hearing loss they are experiencing. Today, we are taking a closer look at one of the rarer types of hearing loss: mixed hearing loss.