There’s a lot to love about the holidays, from the magic of giving a loved one the perfect gift to walking around the Bentleyville® Tour of Lights with your closest friends. One additional benefit of the holidays is that they give your hearing aids a chance to shine.
How Can Hearing Aids Improve My Holidays?
The holidays are meant to bring us together. They’re a chance to visit your family or have a tasty meal with a group of friends without the stress of work or school. If you’re one of the more than 10% of U.S. adults with hearing loss, hearing aids are a big part of making that meaningful connection a reality.
A few ways they bring you closer to your loved ones include:
- Amplifying speech. The amplified speech hearing aids provide helps you reconnect with the moments you love, from your grandchildren’s excited pleas for pie to cherished stories of holidays past and the latest updates from family you haven’t seen in a while.
- Minimizing background noise. Using directional microphones or advanced AI-powered sound processing, your hearing aids pull the speech you want to hear from the background noise you don’t. That means the noise of forks hitting plates, glasses clinking together after a toast and festive music won’t prevent you from joining the conversation.
- Managing tinnitus. Tinnitus is the presence of ringing or buzzing in the ear, and, unfortunately, it doesn’t always take the holidays off. Luckily, many modern hearing aids have tinnitus masking features that distract you from the internal ringing. Even devices without tinnitus masking features can help. The amplified external noise provides your brain with auditory information, discouraging it from making its own noise in the form of tinnitus.
Hearing aids may be tiny, but the benefits they offer can make a big difference in your holiday connection.
Schedule an Audiology Appointment Today
Hearing aids are the gift that keeps on giving, and you don’t even need to wrap them. If you don’t have hearing aids, schedule an appointment with Hearing Wellness Center to see if they’re right for you. If you’re already benefiting from these amazing devices, bring them in for a service appointment!