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MikeI've given up trying get the ASHA function on my phone to play nicely with my hearing aids. So, I've bought a tiny device that connects my hearing aids to my phone by Bluetooth - and it's amazing. It also works as a directional microphone to supplement my hearing aids. Not cheap, but it looks like a game changer for me.Oticon ConnectClip<a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/hearingloss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hearingloss</a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/HearingAids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HearingAids</a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/bluetooth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bluetooth</a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/oticon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oticon</a>

Michael StrasserWearing hearing aids for the first time sounds like excessive foley effects in a movie. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HearingAids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HearingAids</a>

AutisticMumTo3Fury as Labour MP forced to leave assisted dying committee because her hearing aids needed recharging | The Independent <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/assisted-dying-bill-hearing-aid-naz-shah-b2717728.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/assisted-dying-bill-hearing-aid-naz-shah-b2717728.html</a><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Disabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disabled</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/HearingAids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HearingAids</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/HearingImpaired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HearingImpaired</a> <a href="https://leftist.network/tags/AssistedDying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AssistedDying</a>

Jo (dey/they)Hallo, ich bin Jo, behindert, gehörlos, queer, nonbinär, intersektional gegen Diskriminierung & Rechts, Generation Y, möglicherweise neurodivergent, kreativ, humorvoll, traurig, nachdenklich, umweltbewusst... u.vm. #🏳️‍⚧️ #🏳️‍🌈 <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/NoTerfs?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoTerfs</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nonbinary?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonbinary</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nonbinär?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonbinär</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/TransNonbinary?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransNonbinary</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nichtbinär?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nichtbinär</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/LGBTQIA?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQIA</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/gehörlos?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gehörlos</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Deaf?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Deaf</a> #🤟 <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Hörgeräte?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hörgeräte</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/CochleaImplant?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CochleaImplant</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/hearingAids?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hearingAids</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/disability?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disability</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/behindert?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#behindert</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/KeinBockAufNazis?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KeinBockAufNazis</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/MenschenrechteStattRechteMenschen?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MenschenrechteStattRechteMenschen</a>

Juggling With Eggs‘It’s always amazing that family members or close friends still don’t understand why we don’t hear perfectly with hearing aids. They ask: do you have your things in? This is very frustrating and, because it’s family, I don’t bother trying to hide it.’This is me. Daily! The assumption that HAs are a cure, not an adaptive technology.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Deaf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Deaf</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HearingAids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HearingAids</a><a href="https://hearinghealthmatters.org/better-hearing-consumer/2025/handling-hearing-loss-frustrations-without-losing-your-st/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hearinghealthmatters.org/better-hearing-consumer/2025/handling-hearing-loss-frustrations-without-losing-your-st/</a>?

JoeI review <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HearingAids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HearingAids</a> as a community service. I have hearing loss and use aids to hear better. I started doing reviews 7 years ago and it's caught on. I get aids to review and I post them on YouTube. Free reviews, no alliance with the manufacturers. I am surprised they don't take advantage of them...until now. My most recent review was advertised by the maker. It's gotten hundreds of views and over 100 a day since I posted it. Seems just rational, but almost none of them do.

MikeA contact of mine (from <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/YACF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YACF</a> ) has drawn up a webpage as an attempt to explain a few key things about deafness, hearing aids and 'hearing as a deaf person' in the hope it will help deaf and hearing people understand and communicate better and more kindl<a href="https://barakta.org.uk/deaf_tips.shtml" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://barakta.org.uk/deaf_tips.shtml</a>It includes a lot of extremely useful information and advice - give it a read. You don't know when you'll next meet someone with hearing difficulties.<a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/deaf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deaf</a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/deafcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deafcommunity</a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/hearing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hearing</a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/hearingloss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hearingloss</a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/HearingAids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HearingAids</a>

ShellieAfter finally asking my GP for a hearing assessment just before Christmas I was fitted with 2 hearing aids yesterday. I can’t even begin to tell you how much better I can hear. The difference is amazing. 🦻💙<a href="https://toot.community/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NHS</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HearingAids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HearingAids</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HearingLoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HearingLoss</a>

Tech SingerI know we have a bunch of <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#audio</a> experts here, and particularly <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blind</a> audio experts, so I throw this out in hopes that maybe someone has done this before. I have an <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Android</a> 11 phone (Smart Vision 3), and it obviously uses <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/talkback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#talkback</a>. I have two soundcards, one with RCA inputs and one which directly outputs to hearing aids through the <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Phonak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Phonak</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Roger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Roger</a> protocol. I want to plug both USB adapters into the phone, then take the audio from the RCA input on the first card and play it out through the second card along with talkback. That is, I want a "listen to this device" on Android, rather than Windows. Google has come up almost empty, <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.timetools.playbackmic" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.timetools.playbackmic</a> seems to do what I want, but people complain about crackling and it would be nice if someone has experience with this or any other app given the <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/A11y" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#A11y</a> issues. Does anyone know how this can be done? Any ideas would be very gratefully received and boosts would, of course, be very much appreciated. <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/HearingAids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HearingAids</a>

Ted CadwalladerOff to get a <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/hearing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hearing</a> check this morning (again) and probably arrange for <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/hearingaids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hearingaids</a>. Any advice on these is appreciated. I went to one place and they quoted $5K which was crazy. Trying Costco today.

Lynn, eh?Does anyone else have <a href="https://corteximplant.com/tags/Oticon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oticon</a> <a href="https://corteximplant.com/tags/HearingAids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HearingAids</a> ?I had to switch back to an iPhone, because the connectivity on my Android was poor and they would restart sometimes twice a day.Has anyone "solved" this? I need them connected persistently for audio notifications, I often miss the vibrate-only ones.

Random Wish Genie :tinoflag: :Today is the day! Heading in for my appointment shortly <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/HearingAids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HearingAids</a> 3/?

naRADaI got my <a href="https://c.im/tags/CochlearImplant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CochlearImplant</a> on Xmas Day. My deepest gratitude to my family and friends for their support. Even with partial healthcare coverage, the high cost of hearing devices is unacceptable. And <a href="https://c.im/tags/HearingAids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HearingAids</a> are not covered at all. Read full caption on IG: <a href="https://go.narada.ca/SM0L" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://go.narada.ca/SM0L</a> or LinkedIn (targetted): <a href="https://go.narada.ca/SM0N" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://go.narada.ca/SM0N</a> DISABLED SHOULDN'T BE EXPENSIVE. Not everyone have the privilege I have. So, This. has. to. change.

Twilight SequenceI wrote an article for @wildlife_sound about hearing loss, wearing hearing aids and how a whole new world of sound opened up to me.More info about the Wildlife Sound Recording Society here: <a href="https://www.wildlife-sound.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wildlife-sound.org/</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/fieldrecording" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fieldrecording</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/wildlifesound" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlifesound</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/deaf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deaf</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/hoh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hoh</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/hearingaids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hearingaids</a>

Random Wish Genie :tinoflag: :It's just normal hearing loss that comes with age, but in one ear there is frequency loss which is usually attributed to weapons fire (?????), and that's really odd.So, anyway I decided to get through Xmas and NY first (no big social gatherings to worry about) and will have the <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/HearingAids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HearingAids</a> fitted and in use for a while before work reopens. I'm not worried about how friends and family will react, but I'm a bit nervous about returning to work. Will update as things progress. 😊 2/?

Random Wish Genie :tinoflag: :Ok folks, I've recently discovered I need <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/HearingAids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HearingAids</a>, and thought it might be helpful to others to share my journey. (Please mute the # if you don't want to see these posts). I suspected something wasn't right when I realised I was struggling to follow conversations in noisy environments. There's an app called HearWHO that I tried and it showed that there is an issue. Last week my hearing was properly tested and yep, I'm now booked in for further testing and fitting in the early new year. 1/?

TrèsFluke 🍁MobileSyrup reports "On December 12, Health Canada approved the Apple AirPods Pro 2 hearing test and hearing aid features for use in Canada. This is the first regulatory hurdle the company needed to cross to bring the hearing aid features to Canada, but there are still some provincial restrictions." <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/HearingAids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HearingAids</a> <a href="https://mobilesyrup.com/2024/12/18/airpods-pro-2-hearing-aid-coming-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mobilesyrup.com/2024/12/18/airpods-pro-2-hearing-aid-coming-2025/</a>

Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦Bluetooth hearing aids for our elderly parents? 🦻 Oh great, now I have to explain all of the foibles of Bluetooth pairing issues to a 96-year old who retired before the PC revolution arrived at his career. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Eldercare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Eldercare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HearingAids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HearingAids</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bluetooth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bluetooth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Starkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starkey</a>

HoinkasParę przemyśleń jako osoba z aparatami słuchowymi żyjąca w Polsce:1. Polecam kupować baterie do aparatów z hurtowni. Grafika poniżej. Ceny zaobserwowane w moim otoczeniu.2. Protetycy słuchu nie zawsze wiedzą co jest dobre dla młodej osoby głuchej/słabosłyszącej. Warto powiedzieć, że jakiś dźwięk boli albo by zrobili tak by np własny głos był cichszy w takiej i takiej sytuacji. Często spotykam się z traktowaniem jak klienta 80+ późnoogłuchłego a nie młodą osobę głuchą od urodzenia.3. Aparaty to technologia wspierająca, więc warto podejść cyberpunkowo. Warto korzystać z wszystkich ciekawych opcji technologii, których nie ma normalny słuch - ale warto pamiętać, aby coś zostawić dla mózgu aby sam się nauczył np wyciszać, wyłapywać dźwięk itd. Zatem nie całkowita automatyzacja, aby nie utracić tej umiejętności słyszenia, ale wciąż.4. Pętle indukcyjne są dostępne w wielu miejscach, ale obsługujący je często nie wiedzą, jak ich używać, a czasem nawet, jak się to nazywa. Nawet protetycy słuchu mogą źle ustawić odbiór pętli w aparatach. 5. Parowanie urządzeń łączących z aparatami słuchowymi jest trudne, bo nie da się zobaczyć, jak aparat reaguje ani jaki jest jego stan. Nie da się parować za bardzo bez strzelania na ślepo z włączaniem i wyłączaniem.6. Większość ustawień aparatów słuchowych można zmienić tylko u protetyka, ponieważ urządzenia regulujące aparaty są dostępne tylko dla takich firm. Odbiera mi to kontrolę nad własnym słuchem i zmusza do wielokrotnych wizyt, aż protetyk ustawi wszystko poprawnie. Rozumiem, że chodzi o ochronę przed uszkodzeniem sobie słuchu, ale powinno to działać jak wybór systemu Windows-Linux czy zakup zapalniczki – na własną odpowiedzialność.7. Mam teorię, że słuchawki douszne dla muzyków obsługujące do 120db podgłośnienia dają o wiele czystszy i szerszy zakres dźwięków niż aparaty słuchowe, które skupiają się tylko na zakresie mowy. No i są tańsze od aparatów o kilka tysięcy. Muszę to bardziej przetestować.8. Kolejny vent coming...<a href="https://pol.social/tags/accesibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#accesibility</a> <a href="https://pol.social/tags/hearingaids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hearingaids</a>

UnCoveredMythsThis post will be about the <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/AirPods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AirPods</a> being used as <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/HearingAids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HearingAids</a> If you can afford the $150 tomorrow, do it!In the month I have had them, they have been wonderful. Noise cancellation keeps the screaming chef at a tolerable volume. The cell phones ringing at top volume, and residents using speaker phone at top volume almost can’t be heard from 20 feet away.I can clearly hear in meetings when the speaker uses a microphone, and don’t have to turn them off.The hearing aids I had were great when I first got them. However, the fire alarms going off as much as they did, and the screaming chef, had managed to totally mangle them after just two years. They did not have any noise cancellation features at all!And somehow, every time the hearing aid adjuster would visit, they had turned themselves to max, so even a whisper felt like a scream in my ears. I cried from the constant pain. And the phone program could not set them back by themselves.Setting up the AirPods was easy. They instantly attached to my phone, Ipad, and Mac. My hearing aids had taken an hour to connect to my phone, and never did connect to the ipad or Mac, though they should have.The noise cancellation means I can be out and about. Or at least go to meals.There are only 2 downsides.1. I had to make braided leashes to attach them to my glasses, for fear of the falling out.2. The left one has some kind of noise issue. Just turn on background sounds to the lowest setting every time you put them in.And yes, the battery only lasts about six hours. However, the case can charge them without it being plugged in. And my ears enjoy a 45 minute break while they recharge for the afternoon.I am rarely so happy with a purchase.And honestly, even if you bought two of them, and Apple Care, that is still only about 1/10 of the cost of hearing aids that do not have noise cancellation.I was told I would need to replace my hearing aids, and that would be over $2,000.For $300, I have Apple Air Pods that do so much better for reverse slope hearing loss!I wouldn’t mind if I could turn them up just a smidge, especially my left, almost completely deaf ear.However, I think these will last far longer than my last hearing aids.Even with the occasional $20 cost for ear tip replacements.

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