Deciding If You Need a Hearing Aid

Video Transcript

"Considering--or when we're determining the need for a hearing aid, we consider the results of the audio logic assessment. That's one critical piece of information. The other critical piece of information is the client's lifestyle and communication needs, and perceived difficulty. We determine that in a variety of ways. There’s some questionnaires--some self-report questionnaires--that we use to evaluate that. And we also spend time with the client in an interview process, reviewing that. If the client's reporting any kind of struggle in communication situations, then that is an obvious flag for hearing aid need. There can be--the difficulties can be situation specific. So, for example, they could say, "I only experience difficulty when there's background noise", "I only experience difficulty in meetings at work". So it can be very situation specific. There can be battles over the volume of the television. My spouse tells me I need to turn it down, but if I turn it down, I'm unable to hear it. So those kinds of things we would look at."