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Our Blog Communication Workshops – 2019 People are often under the impression that hearing aids will restore their hearing back to normal but this is not the case. Hearing aids will help you hear better in many situations but having communication skills will...

Our Blog Join Our Latest Technology Open House We are having an Open House and you’re invited! Join us on Thursday, June 20th to see all of the latest technology in the hearing industry. We will be demonstrating new hearing aids that feature Bluetooth technology,...

Our Blog Not Your Grandparent’s Hearing Aids! It’s an age in which we all need the technology that makes our lives easier to work effortlessly, automatically and seamlessly. Turn on your smartphone, computer, television and other devices and they should work...

Our Blog Talking About Hearing Loss Communication is, perhaps, themost important part of life.  We’re social creatures.  We share knowledge, jokes, smiles, kind words and even arguments.  We share everything. The ability to hear is integral to how we share with...

Our Blog A Healthy Heart = Healthy Hearing The health of your heart and your ability to hear may seem unrelated, but recent research has found a correlation between the two.  If you’re at risk for heart disease, you may have an increased risk of hearing loss. ...

Our Blog How to Spot Those Dangerous Decibels When you go to a concert and see the band come onstage, it’s easy to be carried away by the excitement as the music begins!  Beware if your ears ring for a day or two afterwards.  This is a classic sign that the...

Our Blog Here’s What Connectivity Means Early hearing aid manufacturers focused on making hearing aid electronics smaller, so the devices could fit on or in your ears.  Once that was achieved, they focused on improving the sound quality.  When Apple released the...

Our Blog Problems Hearing in Background Noise The ability to hear in the presence of background noise is largely due to spatial processing abilities. Spatial processing is your ability to tell where sounds are coming from. Studies have found that the majority of...

Our Blog Thank-you! We’ve won Brampton’s Best Audiology and Hearing Aid Clinic again for 2018! We want to thank everyone in our community who voted for us as this year’s Best Audiology and Hearing Aid Clinic in Brampton! This is the third consecutive year in a row we...

Our Blog Introducing Phonak Audéo Marvel It’s an age in which we all need the technology that makes our lives easier to work effortlessly, automatically and seamlessly. Turn on your smartphone, computer, television and other devices and they should work flawlessly...

Our Blog Strong Evidence Connects Hearing Loss to Falls Among Seniors If you think you’ve heard all the reasons why delaying hearing loss treatment is a bad idea, here’s one you may have missed. Research says untreated hearing loss is a risk factor in falls among...

Our Blog Don’t miss a single word of the holiday season! Don’t miss a single word of the holiday season! In addition to all of the amazing developments in hearing aids themselves over the years, technology that works WITH hearing aids has been developed. Roger Select...

Physician Partner Resources Make Listening Safe World Health Organization (WHO) highlights serious threat posed by exposure to recreational noise. According to WHO, 1.1 billion teenagers and young adults are at risk of hearing loss due to the unsafe use of personal...

Physician Partner Resources Hearing Aids – Do More Than Just Help With Hearing! A study performed at the Washington University School of Medicine found that there was a positive correlation between the risk of falling in seniors and hearing loss. Although the subject...

Our Blog 10 Tips for Family and Friends Many people expect that hearing aids “should make your hearing normal again”. As we know, this is not the case. There are a number of strategies family and friends can use that will help YOU hear better with your...

Our Blog Hearing Aids do Make a Difference Making the decision to try hearing aids often takes a long time. An average person will wait seven years from first noticing hearing loss before doing anything about it. Many barriers exist which prevent people from...

Our Blog Life in Cambridge Bay The sun came out and we had a great day exploring Cambridge Bay. We had 24 hours to explore as the sun never sets! We found the old Hudson Bay building. The new Canada High Arctic Research Station (CHARS). We found a qamutiik. We...

Our Blog Kugluktuk to Cambridge Bay We finished up our last day in Kugluktuk with an information session on hearing loss for the parents. We have met so many diverse and interesting people during our stay in “Kug”: six veterinarians in town for a spay and neutering...

Our Blog Life in Kugluktuk Monday May 21 We spent the morning wandering around Kugluktuk getting the lay of the land. In the afternoon we were taken ice fishing on the Arctic Ocean. We even caught fish (I think our hosts were happy since we weren’t leaving until we...

Our Blog Toronto to Kugluktuk After a day and a half of travel we’ve arrived in Kugluktuk.  We flew from Toronto to Calgary and then on to Yellowknife.  When we landed in Yellowknife we were greeted by a polar bear. Our flight to Kugluktuk was leaving the next day so...

Our Blog Are Two Hearing Aids Better than One? If there is hearing loss in both ears it is almost always advantageous to wear a hearing aid in each ear. The most obvious advantage of having two hearing aids is that it will allow you to localize sound. The ability to...

Our Blog Hearing Loss & Dementia A recent study done at Johns Hopkins suggests that seniors with hearing loss are more likely to develop dementia than their normal hearing peers. They also found that the degree of hearing loss an individual has affects the...

Our Blog Are the New Hearing Aids Really Better? We are often asked if the new hearing aids are really better than the older hearing aid technology. The answer is Yes, however, there are still no hearing aids that restore an individual’s hearing to normal. The hearing...

Our Blog Helping Children Hear in Nunavut The Better Hearing in Education for Northern Youth (BHENY) began as a Rotary project in Guelph. Over the past two years they have assisted school staff in 10 communities in Nunavut in implementing soundfield systems.  A...

Our Blog Hearing Technology Update: Hearing Aids Go Wireless With devices in our homes and cars all talking to one another via Bluetooth, it was only a matter of time before hearing aids got into the conversation, as well. The product-development team at a company...

Our Blog Smoking Can Cloud Your Ears, As Well As Your Lungs The fact that inhaling smoke into your lungs, on purpose, was once seen as a good idea, seems amazing to us today. More amazing is that one out of every six Canadians still smokes, despite hard evidence of...