ROUTINE HEARING CHECKS
Teeth Checked
Eyes Checked
Hearing Checked
It’s wise to check your teeth, eyes and HEARING
“The trick to problem solving is to get to the root of a problem before it shows up.”
A baby’s hearing can be measured at just a few days old; young children undergo a hearing test at school and some professions require regular hearing checks.
Whilst it is likely your hearing is perfectly OK and will remain so for much of your life, most of us will experience a reduction in hearing as we age – who knows when?
Glasses have become acceptable, improving vision almost instantly but our sense of hearing is far more complicated. Changes to our hearing are usually very slow; often going undetected for many years. By the time the need for help is accepted, our hearing could be far worse than we realise
The mechanism of hearing is a telephone line between the outside world and our brain and mind. If less information is ‘heard’, we lose some ability to listen and understand. A reduction in these skills can leave us feeling isolated and anxious leading to depression.
“When your sight begins to change, you lose touch with things. If your hearing starts to go, you lose touch with people.”
Routine Hearing Checks throughout our adult lives will detect subtle changes
in our hearing and highlight the most appropriate time to get help – before we begin to struggle. Our quality of life can be maintained by the ability to carry on listening as well as we can hear.
Teeth Checked
Eyes Checked
Hearing Checked?
THAT’S WHY IT’S JUST WISE TO GET YOUR HEARING CHECKED, ROUTINELY
CONTACT US FOR A ROUTINE HEARING CHECK
Andrew Hyde
Rectory Cottage
Church Lane, Ufton Nervet
Reading RG7 4HH
0118 933 3162
07882 912634
andrewhyde@hearinthecommunity.com
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Andrew Hyde
Theale Wellbeing Centre
37 High Street, Theale
Reading RG7 5AH
0118 930 3535
07882 912634
andrewhyde@hearinthecommunity.com
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Andrew Hyde
The Wellbeing Centre
6 Pound Street
Newbury RG14 6AA
01635 552874
07882 912634
andrewhyde@hearinthecommunity.com
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ABOUT ANDREW HYDE AND ROUTINE HEARING CHECKS
Andrew Hyde has hearing difficulties not recogised by hospital consultants during childhood. In 1994, at the age of 30, he qualified as a Hearing Aid Audiologist and has worn “communication devices” (hearing aids) since then. Feeling left out and isolated for so many years led him to become a passionate advocate for Routine Hearing Checks.
Recognising the importance of keeping the World in our Ears and ourselves in this world of relationships, catching it early is crucial; and the only way to do that is through professional audiometric hearing checks.
If you are in your 20s, 30s or 40s, getting a bench level will serve you well into the future. Undergoing a routine hearing check every 7-8 years may help reduce the social stigma around changes to hearing and accepting communication devices further along. It may even help drive down the cost.
Peace of mind can be alleviated if you are in your 50s + as our hearing ability does begin reduce around this time. The objective measurement of your hearing ability can be measured over time. Our subjective response is not reliable. Yes, you can hear the TV but how loud is it?!
Should you be at that point of your journey where you (or your loved ones) feel help is needed, Hear in the Community provides an evidence based solution. We also recognise that you will want to have time to decide so all our consultations are followed up with recommendations. On the spot decisions is not us.
Decisions allow you to present your hearing check results to your GP for free NHS communication devices. You can also choose Hear in the Community to help you maintain your quality of life and our policy of price transparency guarentees that you know exacly what you are paying for.
Sensibly Priced Hearing
As an after thought: if you are part of a small or large organisation and because reduced hearing will affect most of us AND the retirement age is NOT going down, perhaps routine hearing checks could be offered in the work-place?