Hearing aids can rehabilitate our access to sounds we are incapable of hearing. Still, there is a vital part of how we hear that can’t be relieved with hearing aids. When we encounter hearing loss, the loss is generally gradual. We usually seek help when we are mindful of experiencing more difficulty hearing, particularly in understanding conversation. Many modifications have already emerged in our brains, causing discussion more difficult.
The changes that occur can:
- Lessen speech processing
- Inability to remember or store what we just heard
- Make it more challenging to hear the fine details in speech
These transformations result in more effort needed to listen, differences in memory, and a lack of confidence that we have heard accurately. Hearing loss weakens three brain skills (1) auditory memory (2) sound processing and (3) capacity to distinguish sounds.
Auditory training allows you to slow down, stop, and rebound from brain-based hearing problems.
Auditory training strengthens your brain’s neural pathways by exercising them. This enhances your:
- Auditory memory
- Sound processing speed
- Sound differentiation (processing various sounds at noisy restaurants and parties)
Home Exercises Program: Improve with AMPTIFY
Amptify is a special program developed by Nancy Tye Murray, Ph.D. of Washington University. This program uses different games on smartphones, laptops, or tablets. You can use this program anytime, anywhere, and for any amount of time. The games are engineered to be fun and challenging, each precise targeting skill. The games become more formidable as you improve.
The optimal hearing includes two parts: our ears and our brain. Amptify reinforces what we do with what we actually hear. Think of this as training for our brains through aural.
This ‘training’ is suggestive for:
- New hearing aid users
- Those who can hear but have difficulty holding a conversation
- Users who are challenged by noise
- All those who seek optimal performance in noise-focused listening and enhanced recollection (memory recall)
The program aims to offer patients the same caliber of care only found through face-to-face follow-up visitations. You will profit from motivational quizzes, interactive programs, a supervised peer-to-peer setting for participants, and science-backed video games. This can aid you in improving your listening, cognitive skills, and advice from other certified hearing health care professionals.
If you wait long before seeking treatment, you will find yourself at risk of encountering adverse social, medical, and vocational effects. Untreated hearing loss can lead to social seclusion, depression, early retirement, and cognitive deterioration.
Those with untreated mild hearing loss are more likely to suffer Alzheimer’s disease and affiliated dementias than those without hearing loss. People receiving treatment earlier may reduce their risk of adverse consequences, including dementia progression. Using AMPTIFY will help rehabilitate and train your aural and cognitive skills.
The Listening Lab Singapore provides free listening rehabilitation sessions with selected hearing aid model purchases. Its goal is to meet the needs of individuals seeking faster improvement through their hearing aids. We also recommend exercises with your hearing aid device(s) to help improve your listening skills. We have been offering quality hearing care services to hearing loss patients, including a professional hearing test and a lifetime aftercare program. Visit any of our branches to find out more about this service.
About The Listening Lab
Listening Lab is a home-grown company whose mission is to help our clients restore their hearing to enjoy the life that they desire. Experiencing hearing loss can be detrimental to one’s quality of life. Hence we commit to providing high-quality hearing solutions.
Our hearing solutions include hearing tests and treatment and prescribing hearing aids. Clients may come to get their hearing checked, and we will assess whether hearing aids are required.
If hearing aids are required, clients can choose from a variety of the best hearing aid brands we provide. Each of the products offers unique features that complement daily use and perform well in helping our clients enjoy the life that they desire.
