Your Voice, Your Hearing Aid
Whether you like to sing along to your favourite beats at home or just hum in the bathtub, good singing requires good hearing too. If you use your voice to earn your living; doing MC work, voice overs for media or public speaking, then losing your voice will affect your performance at work. The easiest way to recover your quality of life is to combine voice training with rehabilitation therapy. If you, or your loved one, are losing your hearing then vocal rehabilitation should be combined with auditory training and hearing aids to restore your communication abilities.
The Sound Of Your Own Voice
We all know someone who likes the sound of their own voice. People who never stop talking is one thing, but people with voice disorders is another. Voice disorders reduce our quality of life, at any age, by compromising voice quality and speech intelligibility. When you, or your loved one, combine auditory training and your new hearing aid to restore your oral communication, you may perceive that the sound of your own voice is different. Don’t worry, this is a good sign!
Wearing New Hearing Aids
Most major hearing aid manufacturers introduce new hearing aid features regularly. These new features generally don’t change the way we wear hearing aids. When people with hearing loss start wearing their hearing aids for the first time there is usually an adjustment period, and sometimes annoyance with the sound of their own voice. It takes time to get used to any changes in your life, restoring your hearing is no different. Turning down the volume can reduce speech understanding. Using a more open fitting hearing aid can reduce the effectiveness of directional technology and noise reduction. Some audiologists may simply advise you that you will get used to it.
Clinical trials have revealed that some hearing aids provide substantial improvements in own-voice satisfaction, due to different fitting strategies for hearing aids. Own-voice satisfaction using a closed fitting hearing aid can be equal to, or better than, hearing aids with an open fitting because they improve directional technology, noise reduction, and speech recognition. Improving your satisfaction with your own voice should motivate you to use your new hearing aid more. Finding good hearing care solutions for your own-voice issues will cut your need for clinical visits. Having a natural sounding voice will also create more, and stronger, positive emotions in yourself and in your social and professional interactions.
So if you, or your loved one, are losing your hearing and would like to hear the sound of your own voice better then drop in to Clarisound for a free consultation with one of Clarisound’s professional audiology consultants.