Why it’s Crucial for Children’s Hearing Aids to Be Correctly Programmed
Hearing aids are essential for a child’s growth if they have hearing loss. Hearing aids allow children to engage with their surroundings, communicate effectively and develop language skills. To ensure these benefits, it’s crucial that hearing aids are properly programmed and regularly adjusted to meet the child’s evolving hearing needs. Here’s why accurate programming is…
How Can Noise Pollution Impact Your Hearing Health?
From the moment you wake up to a blaring alarm until you’re watching your favorite TV show before bed, noise is a constant presence in your daily life. While most noise helps you enjoy and stay informed of your environment, constant exposure to loud noise can leave you open to potential harm. Understanding the impact…
Doctor of Audiology Externs from Universities Nationwide
Evergreen Speech and Hearing is happy to have externs Anna Moore, Abby Hansen and Jaimie Ferrara join our team. Anna Moore is interested in auditory processing disorders, hearing aids and electrophysiology/vestibular disorders. They earned their bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University and are completing their doctorate from Northwestern University. In their free time, they enjoy…
These Habits Could Harm Your Hearing Health
October is Audiology Awareness Month, which makes it a perfect time to highlight ways to protect your hearing health. It’s easy to take hearing health for granted. However, if you’re one of the 15% of American adults who report trouble hearing, you know how impactful hearing loss can be. While not all factors that contribute…
How to Choose Headphones to Prevent Hearing Loss
Did you know that exposure to loud noise is one of the leading causes of hearing loss across all age groups? Since October is Audiology Awareness Month, we want to highlight the various ways you can protect your hearing. One essential way to do that is choosing the right pair of headphones. What is Noise-induced…
Social Communication Skill Building for Tweens and Teens
Adolescence is the stage of life where you are tasked with figuring out so much about yourself and the world around you. One of those things to understand is the rules of communication. For tweens and teens, these rules are often unspoken and confusing to interpret. COVID-19 and the digital age has made this even…
Summer Fun Days return to Evergreen Speech & Hearing Clinics
We were excited to welcome back Summer Fun Days this past month! During our week-long event, we created a fun camp-like environment in all our clinics for our younger speech patients. We had five themes, one for each day of the week: Superhero Day, Sports Day, Beach Day, Animal Day and Color Day. We had…
Evergreen Speech and Hearing Hosts BHSM Activities
Evergreen Speech & Hearing had a busy month this May. In honor of Better Hearing and Speech Month, we hosted several presentations and webinars. On May 2, Starkey’s Chief Innovation Officer Dave Fabry led a webinar about how newly released innovations in hearing health technology are improving lives of patients with hearing loss. Focuses included…
Strategies to Enhance Communication
Successful communication between two conversational partners requires intentional efforts from all those involved. Our hearing makes it possible to identify environmental sounds, localize the source of sounds, understand speech and participate in conversations. Hearing loss may greatly impact one’s ability to actively follow and participate in conversations, especially in unfavorable listening environments. While hearing instruments…
The Importance of a Hearing Test Before a Speech Evaluation
One may wonder why a child’s hearing needs to be assessed when the primary concern is speech or language development and not about hearing. For a speech-language pathologist to evaluate a child’s speech and language ability, it is crucial to establish that the child has full access to speech sounds. How We Test Your Child’s…