Unilateral hearing loss

effectively, ideas and thoughts are easily misunderstood, and the whole system breaks down. Unlike hearing, listening requires focus rather than just hearing sounds. In addition, listening requires paying attention to not only what is said, but also to how it is being said, as well as non-verbal messages. Active listening Active listening is the key to effective communication because it encompasses hearing…

Let me introduce myself, I am George the Basset Hound and I am 44 years old (dog years that is). Today my mom Betty, and my dad Bob, are taking me on a walk to the park down the road. I heard them talking about it from across my house, but it was a little muffled due to my luxurious ears. I hear them walking down the hallway now, and I hear the sound of my leash jingling in my mom’s hand. We are walking down the side of the road now, and I hear all sorts of animals scattering in the leaves and…

When an artist of any kind: musician, painter, writer, comedian, entertainer; is working on their next piece, they are on a mission to see it realized to their exact image, but sometimes their work is stifled. This is most prevalent in the music industry. They are trying to convey their message in the littlest of details, mixing, mastering, wordplay and lyrical references. It is wonderful to see humanity display their imagination. It is creation, but there is also a presence waiting to shred it…

Hearing God “God spoke to me” are words that create unease in the most dedicated of Christians. “I sense that God is speaking to my heart” are also words that can give sincere faithful people a feeling of being second class believers if in all honesty they cannot say they have had such an experience. Others have had encounters that are unexplainable other than to turn to Moses’s encounter at the burning bush and Abraham’s visitation at Mount Moriah but have kept them private for fear of…

skills to understand and take information to which we convert the language to which we tend to understand the meaning of what we are hearing. The sound process and sent the signal to the brain to translate into the meaning words. For example, when the baby was born about one to two years old, parent like mother and father teaches the baby by making the baby hearing the repeated words every time like saying “mommy and daddy”. This process takes in listening skill by the time the baby got the…

The Pitfalls of “Locked Hearing Aids:” Doug’s Story With hearing aid dealers popping up on nearly every corner, many patients (and their families) aren’t aware of the common pitfalls they can encounter when making their selection of hearing aid dealer or audiologist. Doug, a Raleigh resident and patient of Now Hear This®, shares his story: “I bought my first pair of hearing aids in 2007 from a Starkey dealer in Nashville, TN. A few years later, my wife and I relocated to Raleigh to retire.…

place is the different experiences we all have had in our lives and the places where we are from. One of the similarities is that we all have a sense place, even though our places different. Picking the images for the song did not contribute to me hearing or seeing the music differently. I think one of the main reasons for this is because I have heard the song many times, so I already had those preset images in my head. It was very interesting to see my partner pick out images because he picked…

Music is a wonderful tool for everyone to experience something different. Each person can relate to music in a positive way. Music releases hormones in the body that make you feel good. Something that intrigued me about music is the way it impacts a person’s life. Music is able to touch the lives of many in a way that can’t be described. In my case music was my get away. Anytime I was having a bad day I would turn up my music and sing as loud as I could. In that moment nothing mattered. The bad…

or taken away to notice a change is known as the difference threshold. The study that has been done was to show the absolute threshold and difference threshold. The study conducted was on three different people of different ages and tested their hearing on if the individuals could hear a clock ticking from twenty feet away. Subject A will be my stepmother, Stephanie, who is forty years old while Subject B will be my husband, Jonathan, who is twenty-four years old, and lastly, Subject C is going…

reality and personal experiences is a very complex process. Sacks points out “Comparable studies in those born blind, or blinded early, show that some area of the visual cortex may be reallocated…with this reallocation of parts of the visual cortex, hearing, touch, and other senses in the blind can take on a hyperacuity that perhaps no sighted person can imagine” (Sacks 331). Human reality and personal experience are the very complex system, people’s sense of reality and experience will maintain…