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Hearing Aids: Cutting the Cords and Wires, Hearing Services of McKinney–LIVING WELL Magazine
Hearing Aids: Cutting the Cords and Wires
By Elizabeth Brassine, Au.D., Hearing Services of McKinney, Collin County LIVING WELL Magazine
In my 22 years as an audiologist, one lecture sticks
out in my mind – “The Human Cochlea and Mother Nature’s Other Dirty Tricks.” This
talk discussed how distance was the enemy to the hearing impaired. The concern
is that higher pitched sounds (like s, th, sh), which give us our meaning to
speech, deteriorate at a much greater rate over distance.
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