Miraculous

[ShazzieB]

16. Oh, but there is technology that can help with that!

I have been wearing hearing aids for about 15 years now, and you'd be amazed at how sophisticated the technology has gotten! My hearing loss hasn't changed much, but my hearing has noticeably improved with each set of hearing aids I've had (I'm now on my third), due to improvements in the technology.

First of all, there are two types of hearing aids: analog and digital. All an analog hearing aid can do is make everything louder. This is helpful for some, but for a lot of us, it wouldn't help much.

Digital hearing aids, otoh, are computerized and calibrated to magnify only the sounds the wearer need to have magnified. For example, my hearing loss is mostly in the upper registers (higher pitched sounds), so my hearing aids are programmed to boost sounds in those registers, without making low-pitched sounds louder.

Also (and I don't claim to understand how this works, lol), some digital hearing aids have multiple settings for different kinds of situations. I'm no good at explaining how the technology works, but hearing are some links that my help:

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/hearing-loss/how-do-hearing-aids-work
https://www.healthyhearing.com/report/41066-Hearing-aids-background-noise