What advantages do digital hearing aids have?
Hearing aids have come along way since the simplistic instrument of years ago that could only achieve simple amplification with the wearer manually adjusting the volume control. The word digital is used to describe two different aspects of the technology of many hearing aids today: the sound processing and the programming or adjusting ability. Some hearing aids are digitally programmable, meaning that the settings of the instrument can be programmed using computer software. This ability allows the Hearing Health Care Professional to truly customize the hearing aid for an individual’s shape and degree of hearing loss, as well as their sound preferences. Hearing aids may also incorporate digital sound processing, which provides a better sound quality (consider the quality you hear on a cassette tape, versus that on a compact disc) with less distortion. Hearing aids that incorporate both digital sound processing and are digitally adjusted or programmed are sometimes referred to as “fully
