Aural Rehabilitation Classes
At Hearing Associates, we offer informative classes on many topics, including aural rehabilitation. These classes involve different therapies designed to help you live well with hearing issues. We’ll help you make the best use of your hearing aids, explore assistive listening devices and take charge of your communication strategies.
The Benefits of Aural Rehabilitation
Emotional support: Getting to know others who share similar hearing loss experiences can ease feelings of isolation and frustration. You’ll have the opportunity to socialize during each session and get to know your peers.
Hearing aid education: If you’re new to wearing hearing aids, attending our classes will help you learn what to expect and how to take care of them.
Better communication: Aural rehabilitation includes auditory training and communication strategies to improve speech comprehension and reduce confusion. Those techniques boost cognitive function and ease listening fatigue.
Increased confidence: Learning how to communicate effectively with hearing loss can provide you with a sense of self-assurance. It also boosts your independence, so you don’t have to rely on others for hearing assistance.
What to Expect from Our Aural Rehabilitation Classes
We discuss topics including the physical process of hearing, why we lose our hearing, protecting your ears, hearing wellness and how to improve your hearing. We’ll teach you how to care for your devices and show you how to improve your listening experience.
As you wear your hearing aids, you’ll become more acclimated to the sounds you’ve been missing. Our aural rehab sessions also focus on the importance of that progress and how it influences device adjustments.
Networking
Build your confidence in social settings by working with others to learn visual cues and how to position yourself for optimal hearing. Connecting with others is also an effective way to practice what you learn during each session.
Answers to Questions
Our classes are led by our audiologists who have the experience and expertise to answer all your hearing health-related questions. Aural rehabilitation is also interactive, so you can participate in hands-on demonstrations.
Sound Amplification Expectations
It can be difficult to know what to expect when you wear hearing aids for the first time. Attending aural rehabilitation provides you with perspective so you can gradually adapt to listening to different scenarios with hearing aids and amplification devices.
Hearing Aid Care
Hearing aids require consistent maintenance to enhance and clarify sounds. Our team will teach you how to safely clean and care for your hearing aids and advise you when it’s time to bring them in for service.
Communication Strategies
Learning how to communicate to enhance your comprehension helps you optimize the volume enhancement provided by your hearing aids. We discuss active listening, lipreading, visual cues and environmental modifications to help you stay engaged.
Overcoming Environmental Obstacles
Learn how to identify and navigate common environmental obstacles that can impede your hearing, including background noise, multiple speakers, miscommunications and listening fatigue.
Hearing Protection Strategies
Preserving your hearing ability is essential to maintaining your quality of life. You’ll learn how to protect your hearing from short- and long-term noise exposure. We also offer custom hearing protection for various careers and hobbies.
Bringing a Support Partner
Improving communication between people with hearing loss and their loved ones is vital during this process. We encourage patients and their families to learn ways to overcome challenges together to enhance their social engagement.
A support partner will:
- Offer another set of ears to help you retain as much information as possible.
- Learn practical techniques to assist conversations.
- Provide encouragement.
Start Your Journey Toward Better Hearing
Are you interested in signing up for aural rehabilitation classes? We host classes once a week for three weeks, so you can choose which session works for your schedule. Email us, and a staff member will contact you to get you set up. The team at Hearing Associates looks forward to guiding you and your family on your path to better hearing. For more information on our aural rehabilitation services, call 888.760.2032.