07/29/2021
TRUTH OR MYTH:
Hearing aids are like 👓 eyeglasses.
MYTH! 😎 Eyeglasses are a mechanism to immediately assist the eye to focus and do not require vision training to wear them. Hearing aids are responsible for helping the 🧠 brain perceive pitch, duration, loudness, timbre, sonic texture and spatial location of sounds. With hearing aids, the brain needs time to adjust to the 🔊 sound coming through the hearing instrument. MYTH: Eyeglasses are a mechanism to immediately assist the eye to focus and do not require vision training to wear them. Hearing aids are responsible for helping the brain perceive pitch, duration, loudness, timbre, sonic texture and spatial location of sounds. With hearing aids, the brain needs time to adjust to the sound coming through the hearing instrument. (https://hearinghealthfoundation.org/common-hearing-loss-myths/)