The Fitting

Your audiogram and your own comments about how well you can hear in a variety of listening environments help determine the optimum setting for your hearing aids. Your Hearing Care Professional adjusts hearing instruments by taking measurements to check how well you can hear. They teach you to operate the hearing instruments, and how to hear best in different environments. They may also offer tips for communicating while wearing hearing instruments, encourage you to practice inserting and removing the hearing instruments, and instruct you in cleaning and caring for your hearing instruments as well as proper battery use.

Typically, you will return for a follow up visit some days later. Your part is to wear your new hearing instruments for a few days in your regular surroundings. You may even want to keep a diary to record your impressions of the sounds you hear. Based upon how well you can hear in your everyday surroundings, your Hearing Health Care Professional may make additional adjustments to your hearing instruments if necessary. next