Hearing Aids and Speech Therapy Clinic | Blue Bell Plus

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BLUE BELL PLUS Speech
and Hearing Clinic
800 700 6566
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Introduction about Blue Bell

• Blue Bell Plus  has been early adopter of
  Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
  initiatives. Along with sustained economical
  growth, environmental  and  Social stewardship is
  also a key factor of holistic business growth.
  The Centre aimed at providing dedicated approach
  to community development. We work towards
  improving healthcare, supporting primary
  education, rehabilitating  abandoned women and
  children, Autistic awareness  and Cerebral Plasy
  in society, and preserving Indian art and
  culture.
• In Hearing Aid we have all international brands
  available with competitive prices and we follow
  Always Lowest Price and Price Match Guarantee.
• We believe that quality holds the key to success,
  so we provide 100 trial in all hearing aid as
  per the customers need. Suggest right
  consultation and right hearing aid to the
  patient. 
• We are committed to total customer satisfaction
  by identifying their specific needs, translating
  them into Quality products and providing
  dependable after-sales-services. This commitment
  is the corner stone of our Quality Policy and
  Ethics Policy.

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What is Hearing Aid?

• A hearing aid is a small electronic device that
  you wear in or behind your ear. It makes some
  sounds louder so that a person with hearing loss
  can listen, communicate, and participate more
  fully in daily activities. A hearing aid has
  three basic parts a microphone, amplifier, and
  speaker.
• How can hearing aids help?
• Hearing aids are primarily useful in improving
  the hearing and speech comprehension of people
  who have hearing loss that results from damage to
  the small sensory cells in the inner ear, called
  hair cells. This type of hearing loss is called
  sensor neural hearing loss. The damage can occur
  as a result of disease, aging, or injury from
  noise or certain medicines.
• How can I find out if I need a hearing aid?
• If you think you might have hearing loss and
  could benefit from a hearing aid, visit your
  physician, who may refer you to an
  otolaryngologist or audiologist. An
  otolaryngologist is a physician who specializes
  in ear, nose, and throat disorders and will
  investigate the cause of the hearing loss. An
  audiologist is a hearing health professional who
  identifies and measures hearing loss and will
  perform a hearing test to assess the type and
  degree of loss.

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Styles of Hearing Aids

• Behind-the-ear (BTE) 
• In-the-ear (ITE)

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• Canal 

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How Hearing Aid Work?

• What problems does a hearing aid have to solve?
• You might be wondering, if a hearing aid is just
  an amplifier, and an amplifier is just a few
  transistors, how come it costs so much? But of
  course, it's not quite that simple! First, there
  isn't simply one type of hearing impairment. You
  can lose hearing for three different reasons (or
  a combination of them)
• Conductive impairment Sound doesn't travel
  properly ("conduct") from the outside to the
  inner ear. This can sometimes be corrected by
  surgery or simple amplification.
• Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) Generally a
  problem with the cochlea, in the inner ear, in
  which the cilia do not detect sounds of certain
  frequencies as well as they are supposed to. Most
  hearing impairments fall into this category, so
  this is the problem that most hearing aids seek
  to address.
• Neural impairment A problem in the brain itself
  that affects your ability to interpret sound
  signals your ears have successfully registered
  (possibly caused by something like a brain tumor,
  stroke, or other brain injury). This is a
  relatively rare problem and not something that a
  hearing aid can address.

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• Gain adjustment The amount by which an amplifier
  increases a particular frequency (or band of
  frequencies) of sound is known as its gain.
  Digital hearing aids adjust the gain selectively,
  typically for about a dozen different frequency
  bands, to match a person's particular hearing
  loss. Gain adjustment is a bit like the graphic
  equalizer on a stereo, where you can turn
  different frequency bands up or down to emphasize
  speech, treble, bass, or particular instruments.
• Compression This is a key feature of digital
  hearing aids. Although it's complex, and there
  are numerous different kinds, the basic idea is
  simple. A person with normal hearing can hear the
  full range of loud and soft sounds (from falling
  leaves to jets screaming overhead) for all
  frequencies, but someone with a hearing
  impairment will hear a smaller range of sounds
  for certain frequency bands (they will only hear
  sounds of those frequencies if they're loud).
• Sound classification This categorizes the sounds
  you can hear into music, speech, noise or
  whatever and amplifies them (or reduces them)
  selectively.

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• Sophisticated hearing aids effectively figure out
  what kind of environment you're in (concert hall,
  noisy restaurant, lecture theater with distant
  speaker, or whatever) and apply a different
  amplification pattern to the sounds you're
  hearing.
• Speech enhancement This selectively boosts sound
  frequencies in the range from a few hundred to a
  few thousand hertz, which carry most of the
  energy in human speech.
• Feedback reduction Hearing aid users have to
  suffer two kinds of feedback acoustic and
  mechanical. Electrically amplified sound suffers
  from acoustic feedback if you turn the volume up
  too much, the amplified sound enters the
  microphone with the original sound, gets
  amplified, enters the microphone again, and so on
  until you hear a horrible, deafening whistle.
  Digital hearing aids can also remove mechanical
  feedback noise from such things as jaw movements.
• Noise reduction This works a bit like the noise
  reduction buttons on old-fashioned cassette tape
  recorders or (noise canceling headphones) to
  remove steady background noise (such as hiss or
  low-frequency vibrations on airplanes and trains)
  from the "signals" (speech sounds or music) you
  actually want to hear.

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The Future of Hearing Aids

• The hearing aid industry is built on innovation,
  it is like an arms race, if one manufacturer
  stands still they will simply lose out. For this
  reason hearing instrument technology is
  constantly evolving and changing. The fortunes of
  the big six hearing device manufacturers is built
  on constant research and innovation. The author
  of the article spoke about how the concepts
  around hearing aids have been changing over the
  last few years. He felt that wireless hearing
  device innovation had really changed everything. 
• I think that wireless hearing technology has
  delivered real benefit for people with hearing
  loss. It has helped to ensure that people with
  hearing loss can get benefit in as many
  situations as possible.
• Initially, the only manufacturer who seemed to
  really understand the opportunity was Widex.
  Widex researchers believed that the real
  opportunity from wireless communication wasn't
  connecting to ancillary devices. It was
  connecting the hearing aids to each other which
  for the first time would allow two hearing aids
  to act as a system.
• One of the things that is often said about the
  Widex sound in recent years is the sense of it
  being like natural hearing. This strategy of
  hearing aids working together allows them to make
  decisions together to provide the very best
  performance for the situation they were in. 
• Connection To Smart Phones
• The Latest Hearing Aid Innovations
• The Internet of Things
• Amazing Vision
• Hearing Aids Powered by Fuel Cells
• The Future of Hearing Aids

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