Mastodawn

Hive mind! My partner has fairly extensive bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and is meant to wear hearing aids but found the NHS ones very uncomfortable.

We’re looking at private options, and I’m wondering if anyone in my network has any recommendations for something comfortable that can be worn with glasses.

#HearingLoss #A11y

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techsimplified Mar 6

@Amy_Hupe Not hearing aid advice specifically, but as someone in the assistive tech space — your partner might also benefit from caption/transcription tools alongside hearing aids. Real-time captions on calls + meetings can fill gaps that hearing aids miss, especially in noisy environments. The assistive tech world has made huge strides recently. Hope they find something comfortable that works! #a11y #accessibility

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Amy Hupe Mar 6

@techsimplified thank you! I will definitely let him know. The most difficult environments are restaurants and bars really, he has such a rubbish time because he just can’t hear well at all with so much background noise

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techsimplified

@Amy_Hupe Restaurants are the worst for that — all hard surfaces bouncing sound everywhere. Some people have had good results with directional microphone hearing aids that focus on the person in front and filter background noise. Oticon and Phonak make some good ones apparently. Worth asking an audiologist about specifically for noisy environments. Hope he finds something that helps! 🤞