| There are estimates that more than ten percent of | | | | aside time for follow-up visits to the audiologist, who |
| the world's population has some degree of hearing | | | | has to try and fine-tune the hearing aid's adjustment |
| loss--that's more than six hundred million people. | | | | once again based on what the client tells him ore her. |
| Two further estimates are that of those six hundred | | | | Trying to survive in between appointments with a |
| million people, only twenty percent , or one hundred and | | | | poorly adjusted hearing aid may be one reason why |
| twenty million, have hearing devices, and of those | | | | so many people just give up on the process. |
| twenty percent, another twenty percent, or | | | | How Self-Programming Works |
| twenty-four million people, have put their hearing aids in | | | | While original programming of the America Hears |
| a drawer and decided life is easier without them. | | | | Freedom AD hearing aids is set at their factory, |
| A 2002 study indicated that of those hearing-impaired | | | | America Hears self-programming hearing aids can be |
| people who actually took the time to be examined and | | | | attached to a programmer, which is then connected to |
| fitted for hearing aids, 8.6% returned their hearing aids | | | | your computer. Software which you can install on your |
| for a refund. Those people did care about their hearing | | | | computer will allow you to re-create the testing you |
| loss, and did try to find a solution. What happened? | | | | underwent at your audiologist's but because you have |
| Why are so many hearing aids either returned or | | | | self-programming hearing aids you can now fine tune |
| tossed into drawers? | | | | them yourself, in the privacy of your home and at your |
| The Problem's In The Programming | | | | convenience. |
| The issue seems to be in the programming. Each | | | | The software includes a "Wizard" which will help you |
| hearing aid is programmed at a factory according to | | | | make the adjustments through its Help screens which |
| setting established by an audiologist during a client's | | | | walk you through a list of many common complaints |
| hearing aid exam. The audiologist will base those | | | | which people have about their hearing aids, and then |
| settings on what the client says he or she is hearing; | | | | instruct you on the adjustments you need to make to |
| but the audiologist is not actually hearing what the client | | | | eliminate those problems. You will perform incremental |
| is hearing. There can be inaccuracies in a | | | | adjustments on the self-programming hearing aids, |
| pre-programmed hearing aid, and self-programming | | | | without having to understand their technical aspects. |
| hearing aids have only very recently become available. | | | | Self-programming hearing aids may not be the answer |
| Many of the hearing impaired have demanded a | | | | for everyone; you have to be able to install the both |
| self-programming hearing aid for several years, and | | | | software and programmer for your self-programming |
| there is finally a self-programming hearing aid, the | | | | hearing aids. And they should not be an excuse for |
| America Hears Freedom AD, to accommodate them. | | | | you to stop seeing your audiologist to check the sate |
| Having a self-programming hearing aid means that a | | | | of your hearing on a regular basis. |
| hearing- impaired person can dispense with setting | | | | |