What is Best Hearing Aid for Me?

• Sits behind the ear and connects via a plastic tube to ear-mould.

• Easy to use because of larger controls/ switches.

  

• Fits all degrees of hearing losses.

• The Battery life averages 14 days.

• Price ranges from INR 10,000 to 2.5 lacs approx.

• Smaller almost invisible.

• A very thin, almost invisible tube is used to connect the aid to the ear canal.

  

• Suitable for mild to moderately severe, high frequency hearing loss.

• The Battery life averages 7-10 days.

• Price ranges from INR 30,000 to 2.5 lacs approx.

• Small hearing aids that fit inside the ear.

• Suitable for hearing loss up to severe category.

  

• The Battery life averages 12-15 days.

• Price ranges from INR 16,000 to 2.5 lacs approx.

• Small virtually invisible hearing aid that fits inside the ear.

• Suitable for hearing loss up to moderately severe category.

  

• The Battery life averages 7 days.

• Price ranges from INR 17000/- to 2.5 lacs approx.

• Miniature digital BTE device, Offer clarity of speech into the ear without blocking the entire the ear canal natural sound, without an echo.

• Suitable for high frequency hearing loss.

• Invisible as fits deep inside the canal.

• Suits mild to moderate hearing loss.

Along with excellent speech clarity Digital hearing aids can be set up for your own specific lifestyle situations for improved performance. However, these sophisticated electronics may significantly add to the cost of the hearing aid as well.

• Channels and Bands: In general, having more channels is better than having more bands and the more channels the better – to a point! The more noise you regularly experience, the more you will benefit from a greater number of channels and bands. If your hearing loss changes across the frequency spectrum, then you may need more channels/bands. If your hearing loss is relatively flat across the frequency spectrum, then you may only need less channels

• Multiple Programs: Like programs may have setting for a quiet bedroom, crowded market place, listening to music, telephone. Programs can be manual or automatic.

• Noise Reduction: Hearing aids will recognize the difference between speech and background noise (such as machinery, traffic, crowds, AC) and electively reduce amplification of the background noise, helping you to follow conversations in noisy environments

• Directional Microphones: Backgrounds noises coming from behind are dampened while others sound coming in front are amplified.

• Feedback Cancellation: The newest-technology hearing aids have the best versions of this very important feature.

• Automatic Telephone Switch: Environmental sounds are eliminated, and sound is picked up from the telephone. This also turns off the microphone on your hearing aid so you can talk without your hearing aid “whistling".

• Direct audio input allows you to plug in a remote microphone or an FM assistive listening system, connect directly to a TV, or connect to other devices such as your computer, a CD player, tape player, radio, etc.

• Wind noise block: For outdoors on a breezy day

• Water/sweat resistant.

• Remote controls: For hearing aids too small to incorporate any switches or dials, the remotes can give the ability to change volume and select between multiple programs

• Bluetooth: If you currently spend a lot of time on the phone and experience trouble understanding speech.