Hearing Devices & Other Resources
Sutter Children's Services
The ability is hear is very important for understanding speech and for a wide variety of other functions in everyday life such as detecting warning alarms and listening to music. When the abnormal or damaged auditory system is not directly repairable through surgical or medical means, a wide variety of advanced hearing devices are available that can improve these functions, sometimes dramatically.
With the proper selected, fitted and adjusted hearing device, patients with any degree of hearing loss from very mild to profound deafness can achieve hearing functions that are not obtainable otherwise. Because these devices generally do not restore the underlying abnormal auditory structures, the sense of hearing is not restored to its natural or normal state. However, hearing aids can optimize or even replace the remaining hearing function and improve hearing ability such that significant life style changes often occur.
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