Are meetings at work a problem?

We often see professionals in our office who report hearing in business meetings as their primary hearing concern. Meetings are typically held in large reverberant rooms with long tables that can pose difficulty for even those with good hearing. Additionally there is usually someone who just won't speak up or may have a foreign accent posing difficulty in both meeting settings and on the telephone. The same holds true for seminars, which are notoriously held in rooms with poor acoustics or questionable sound systems.

A hearing impaired person who works in a professional setting may not want to draw attention or appear uninformed by asking the speaker to repeat what is often very valuable information.

We now have products that can help in these situation and are practically invisible, a common concern of the professional community. We offer several different styles of hearing instruments. The most common is the "Completely in the Canal" instrument often referred to as the "CIC." This tiny custom device site in the aperture, or shadow, of the ear canal where it is truly not visible. We are also finding that many of our patients enjoy wearing the newest technology that sits behind the ear called "dot," by GNResound. This instrument sits in the shadow behind the ear and leaves the patients ear canal open which makes the hearing aid sound extremely natural and is not visible b others, and is so comfortable that the patient often forgets that it is even in their ear.