Fitting Demo: Complex Hearing Aid Fittings (sponsored by Signia)-Complex Hearing Aid Fittings

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The video reviews complex hearing-aid fittings: tinnitus, frequency compression, reverse hearing loss, and single-sided deafness. For tinnitus, it recommends trying hearing aids alone first, then reducing noise reduction so low-level environmental sound can help mask ringing. Signia offers sound therapy noises and exclusive notch therapy, which uses pitch matching and removes a narrow frequency band to retrain the brain. For steep high-frequency loss, frequency compression lowers inaudible highs into a usable range; Signia turns it on automatically when needed, and settings can be adjusted for audibility or sound quality. For reverse hearing loss, the advice is to fit more like a flat loss, reduce low-frequency gain, and use in-situ testing for better outcomes. For single-sided deafness, it explains CROS and BiCROS, recommending BiCROS for better balance, plus careful balancing of the transmitted signal. An Amp-CROSS option using telephone program routing is also mentioned.

Keywords

tinnitus

frequency compression

reverse hearing loss

single-sided deafness

BiCROS