I got my new hearing aids from Hearing Health Center when I was in town for a concert. I didn’t know I could hear like this.
When Roger Daltrey realized he had a hearing problem, the Who’s lead singer could have gone to any audiologist in the world. He chose Dr. Ronna Fisher, audiologist and founder of Hearing Health Center in Chicago. This video illustrates both why – and how – nearly invisible hearing aids have kept him young, connected….and as cool as ever!
“I got my new hearing aids when I was in town for our concert. All I can say is WOW! I didn’t know I could hear like this. It makes me so sad that Brian Johnson (lead singer of AC/DC) has to quit doing what he loves because of his hearing. It’s time I speak out.”
Click here to see the original article on the Daily Herald website from 9/2/15: Batman delivers hearing aids for 6-year-old
A superhero shared his super hearing with a 6-year-old in need of hearing aids at a Naperville hearing health center.
Riley Buckholz, 6, of Burlington, got new hearing aids recently from Batman, his favorite among all superheroes.
Riley’s partial hearing loss was caused by pineal blastoma, a childhood brain tumor about the size of a sunflower seed, said his mother, Adena Buckholz.
The tumors and the radiation and chemotherapy used to treat them are caused Riley to lose the ability to hear several sounds, said Kara Houston, his doctor at Hearing Health Center in Naperville.
“The hearing loss that Riley has is in the high frequency ranges, like the sounds of F, H, TH and CH. Those high-frequency sounds give us clarity of speech,” said Houston, who programmed and installed Riley’s new hearing aids. “If he’s not hearing those sounds, everything is going to sound muddled and not very clear.”
Riley is receiving free treatment at the Hearing Health Center through support of the Fisher Foundation for Hearing Health Care. Phonak, LLC, donated his special hearing aids, which were decorated with the Batman logo to continue the super hearing theme.
The aids will help Riley hear teachers and peers more clearly so he can perform better in first grade.
“He needs to be able to hear those sounds in order to distinguish between words like show, how and feel, with all those consonant sounds which are very similar,” Houston said.
Americans spend an average of 5 hours per day watching TV. And, if you have any hearing issues, you spend even more time listening to television since you’re not going out and socializing as much…it’s not fun when you don’t know what people are talking about and it can be embarrassing.
Besides, even when you go to the movies or theater, you really don’t enjoy it. And everyone is annoyed when you keep saying, “What?” “What did she say?”
So you stay home watching TV, but you can’t understand what they’re saying half the time and turning up the volume doesn’t help. Especially with Downton Abbey. Who can understand those foreign accents? Then, your spouse and kids complain the TV’s too loud and turn it down!
Imagine clearly hearing and understanding every word on your favorite TV show. Imagine going to a movie, play or drive-thru Starbucks and hearing everything clearly? Imagine going to church or synagogue and actually enjoying the sermon?
With hearing loops, you can! Ever since composer Richard Einhorn, wrote about his experience at Kennedy Center, looping has been taking the country by storm.
“There I was at ‘Wicked’ weeping uncontrollably – and I don’t even like musicals,” he said. “For the first time since I lost most of my hearing, live music was perfectly clear, perfectly clean and incredibly rich.”
Looping is basically just a copper wire placed around a room that’s hooked up to a transmitter that’s connected to the sound source (a microphone, the TV). The wire emits a magnetic signal. Most hearing devices have a tiny coil inside that also emits a magnetic symbol. When the little coil is turned on, the transmitter sends the signal (voice) directly into your hearing devices and voila! You hear everything right into your ears. It’s like magic.
The best part is, besides finally knowing what’s going on, is you don’t have to wear a big bulky headset that announces to the world you can’t hear. And, it’s not isolating. You can hear everything that’s going on and still talk to the person next to you.
When you see this symbol to the left, just touch the button on your hearing devices (or remote control) to activate the coil. Now, sit back and enjoy!
P.S. Even if you don’t have hearing devices, can still enjoy hearing through looping. Just ask to borrow a headset.
Dr. Ronna Fisher discusses hearing difficulties on Fox Chicago Morning News, aired 8/14/07
Dr. Ronna Fisher and HHC featured on an NBC Chicago segment discussing the dangers of earbuds.
Aired 5/2/06
HHC featured on Fox News, 10/24/05
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