by Hear Virginia | Jul 30, 2013 | Hearing Loss Articles
One of the things you can look forward to if you have kids is that sooner or later they are going to ask you to get them some headphones to use with their gaming systems, music players and computers. No huge shock there. After all, headphones often offer a better...
by Hear Virginia | Jul 23, 2013 | Hearing Loss Articles
The term “speech banana” brings a lot of funny images to mind, for instance a banana-shaped listening device, but that would be incorrect.The “speech banana” is a specific design depicted on an audiogram. Audiograms are graphs of sound...
by Hear Virginia | Jul 16, 2013 | Hearing Loss Articles
America’s fascination with guns is almost unique across the globe; we grew up with television programs and movies about cowboys and police and heroic characters who were all totin’ guns and firing them regularly. Constant encounters with these images is...
by Hear Virginia | Jun 28, 2013 | Hearing Loss Articles
Acute external otitis is an infection of the outer ear canal – the part outside your eardrum. Virtually all people know it by its common name – swimmer’s ear. This type of infection was named “swimmer’s ear” because it’s very...
by Hear Virginia | Jun 21, 2013 | Hearing Loss Articles
Sound is a vital part of our world, but like most things, its influence on us depends upon both the quality of the sounds we hear, and the quantity of them. Most of us, for example, take pleasure in listening to music. However, if we are at a concert or are listening...
by Hear Virginia | Jun 14, 2013 | Hearing Loss Articles
For those of you who’ve suffered some form of hearing impairment, do you ever find yourself having to work very hard to understand what is being said to you or around you? This is a sensation that happens even to those wearing hearing aids, because in order for...
