The Sounding Board

Part of healthy living is managing and monitoring your hearing loss. Will your hearing decline, if so how will you know? Will you have to change how you treat your …

I had already been struggling with my hearing loss for years when I became a first year college student. Now, however, I was away from home and in danger of failing …

What is a hearing aid? A hearing aid is a small externally-worn device used to collect sounds with microphones and make those sounds louder through a small speaker in the …

Getting the Esteem® is not an easy decision, and it’s not one to take likely, but if an audiologist says, “well, you could do just as well with hearing aid,” …

As a bilateral Esteem® patient, I have experienced hassle-free hearing for almost 9 years. It has been an amazing journey and one that I would never change. Not for anything …

As a proud member of the hearing loss community, a hearing aid user for nearly three decades, and a happy bilateral Esteem® recipient, I am intimately familiar with the journey …

You may not know they exist or what they are, but active middle ear implants – or AMEIs as they are sometimes referred to – have created new treatment options …

Before Jill McAlister and Marcie Pratt went skydiving together, they had never met. But, the two shared more in common than they would have believed. They both have congenital hearing …

Can you imagine having your cake and eating it too? That might be what you can expect with the Esteem® hearing implant. The Esteem® is a hearing solution that alleviates …

Hearing loss often creeps up on us slowly over time. We start by turning the volume up on the TV, the phone and the radio. Over time it can progress …