Hearing aids are widely used, and perhaps misused, daily by a large group of people with perceived hearing difficulty. The main reason for the use of these hearing aids is exposure to loud noise. In some cases, the exposure was caused by the nature of employment, for example gunfire on the part of servicemen.
Hearing aids are dispensed (sold) by groups offering audiology tests to determine the degree of impairment. Because income is based on the sale of hearing aids, the outcome of testing and the ensuing recommendations are skewed toward the purchase of high ticket hearing aids. The most glaring deficiency in this process is the lack of testing to determine speech recognition.
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Author Name: Henry W. Boger
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Keywords: Hearing aids, audiology tests
ISSN: 2456-1045
EISSN: 2456-1045
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