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Our Hearing Services professional staff focuses on your individual satisfaction to improve the quality of your life through better hearing. We service both the Pleasanton and Livermore, California communities providing a full selection of hearing aids and assistive devices, including new, cosmetically appealing styles and digital models with advanced features, in order to meet your specific hearing needs. Along with our focus on customer service and our established medical referral program, we will ensure that you receive the highest level of hearing care.
A routine hearing test is an important part of good health practices, to maintain your overall well being. Contact us today to schedule an appointment.
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Living and coping with a hearing loss is difficult. In some situations, hearing becomes work, particularly in noisy settings. It takes help from others in order to obtain a complete hearing solution. The person with the hearing loss uses hearing devices. The family member or friend must help enhance the listening situation. Here are some tips when speaking to someone with a hearing loss:
- Remember…even with hearing devices, the person you are speaking to may not clearly understand or hear everything.
- Avoid speaking from another room.
- Rephrase, don’t just repeat. If you are not heard or misunderstood, try rephrasing the sentence. It may be easier to understand if put a different way or using different words.
- Repeating a single word is not helpful, rephrase the entire sentence.
- Stand facing the person. There is a wealth of information in visual cues. And it directs sound right to the listener.
- Get the person’s attention prior to talking. Then start the conversation. It warms the system up to know that conversation is starting.
- Be patient…be patient…be patient. If you think its frustrating having to repeat, put yourself in the shoes (or ears!) of the person with the hearing loss. They may have difficulty in every conversation. Talk about frustrating!
- Never say “It’s not important” or “Never mind” if the person does not hear what you said. Repeat it. If you said it to begin with, it’s probably important to the person you are talking to.