Hearing Exams
Comprehensive Hearing Evaluations
Your hearing is as individual as your fingerprint—shaped by your life experiences, work environment, family history, and the moments that matter most to you. That's why your comprehensive hearing evaluation goes far beyond simply testing whether you can hear sounds. We take the time to understand your personal hearing journey, exploring how your current hearing affects your relationships, work performance, and daily enjoyment of life. This personal insight guides every aspect of your diagnostic process, helping us understand not just what you're experiencing, but how it's impacting the life you want to live.
Your Personalized Diagnostic Experience
Using state-of-the-art technology in our comfortable, soundproof environment, we'll map your individual hearing profile with precision and care. Our audiologists will explain each step of the process, ensuring you understand exactly what we're discovering about the state of your current hearing health. Your results become the foundation for developing a hearing wellness plan that's specifically designed around your lifestyle, communication needs, and personal goals.
Whether your evaluation reveals changes that can be addressed through simple lifestyle modifications, medical referrals, or personalized hearing solutions, you'll leave with a clear understanding of your hearing health and a roadmap for moving forward.
Hearing Aid Fitting
Crafting Your Personal Sound Experience
Your hearing aid fitting is where modern technology meets professional expertise. Our audiologists will transforms your unique hearing profile into a personalized sound experience that reconnects you with the conversations, music, and moments you've been missing. This isn't about simply placing a device in your ear; it's about carefully sculpting how sound will flow back into your life, tailored specifically to your individual hearing patterns and the listening environments that matter most to you.
Every aspect of your fitting is customized around your personal needs and expectations. Whether you're eager to hear your spouse's whispered "good morning," follow your colleagues during important presentations, or simply enjoy your favorite music again, our audiologists will program your hearing aids to prioritize the sounds that enrich your daily experiences. Your lifestyle, your listening preferences, and even your comfort with new technology all shape how your instruments are precisely calibrated.
Your Comfort, Your Timeline
We understand that adapting to hearing aids is a deeply personal journey that unfolds differently for everyone. That's why your fitting includes comprehensive guidance on what to expect as your brain relearns to process the fuller spectrum of sounds now available to you. We will walk you through every feature, ensuring you feel confident and comfortable with your new hearing aids.
Your 45-day risk-free satisfaction period isn't just a trial—it's your opportunity to live fully with your hearing aids while we fine-tune and adjust them to match your evolving comfort and performance needs. We remain closely connected throughout this adjustment period, celebrating your progress and addressing any concerns that arise along the way.
Hearing Aid Programming and Repairs
Fine Tuning Your Connections to the World Around You
Your hearing aids are sophisticated companions that evolve alongside your changing life—and sometimes they need expert attention to continue serving you at their highest potential. Whether your hearing has shifted over time, your lifestyle has changed, or your trusted devices simply need professional care, we will approach every programming session and repair with the same personalized attention that guided your original fitting.
Your hearing journey doesn't end when you walk out with new hearing aids. As you rediscover conversations with loved ones, navigate different work environments, or embrace new social activities, your auditory needs naturally evolve. Perhaps you've noticed that your hearing aids aren't quite capturing your grandchild's soft voice the way they used to, or maybe you've started a new hobby that requires different listening priorities. These moments signal that it's time for reprogramming, and we will work with you to fine-tune your devices to match your current hearing profile and lifestyle demands.
Your Hearing Aids, Expertly Restored
When your hearing aids need repair, we understand the urgency you feel—these aren't just devices, they're your bridge to meaningful connection with the people and experiences you cherish most. We service all major hearing aid brands with the same meticulous care and expertise, whether you're a long-time patient or new to our practice.
Cochlear Implants
When Your Hearing Journey Calls for Life-Changing Innovation
If you've found that even the most advanced hearing aids aren't providing the clarity you need to engage fully in conversations with your family, participate confidently in work meetings, or simply feel connected to the world around you, a cochlear implant evaluation might be the next chapter in your personal hearing journey. These surgically implanted devices bypass damaged parts of your inner ear to directly stimulate your auditory nerve, and they can restore hearing to individuals with severe to profound hearing loss. At Sound Hearing Solutions, we conduct cochlear implant candidacy evaluations as well as activate and program the devices.
We approach cochlear implant candidacy evaluations with the same individualized care that defines every aspect of our practice. Your evaluation goes far beyond medical criteria—we explore how your current hearing challenges are affecting your relationships, your career aspirations, and the activities that bring you joy. These personal experiences guide our comprehensive assessment of whether cochlear implant technology could transform your communication abilities.
Your Activation and Programming Journey
The day your cochlear implant is activated marks an extraordinary milestone—the moment when electrical signals begin creating your new relationship with sound. We will be there to guide you through this profound experience, carefully mapping how your unique auditory system responds to this revolutionary technology. Your initial programming session becomes the foundation for months of personalized fine-tuning, as your brain learns to interpret these new electrical signals as meaningful sounds.
Your programming appointments are deeply collaborative experiences where we adjust your cochlear implant processor to match your evolving listening skills and personal preferences. Whether you're working to distinguish your spouse's voice from background noise or hoping to enjoy music again, every programming session is tailored to support your individual communication goals and lifestyle needs.
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Custom Ear Molds
Custom Protection for Your Unique Lifestyle
Whether you're a musician who needs to preserve your hearing while still experiencing the full richness of your art, a hunter who requires precise sound filtering during those quiet dawn moments, or a swimmer who wants to enjoy the water without compromising your ear health, we can create custom earmolds that are sculpted specifically for your ear anatomy and your unique protection needs. Your lifestyle shapes how we design and our personalized ear protection, ensuring it enhances rather than hinders your daily experiences.
Tinnitus Management
Finding Peace When the Silence Won't Come
The ringing, buzzing, or humming that lives in your ears isn't just a sound—it's become an unwelcome companion that follows you through quiet evenings with your family, interrupts your concentration during important work, and sometimes makes peaceful sleep feel impossible to achieve. Your tinnitus experience is as individual as you are, shaped by your unique auditory system, your daily stressors, and the specific moments when those phantom sounds feel most overwhelming or intrusive.
Our audiologists understand that your tinnitus affects far more than just your hearing—it touches your emotional well-being, your relationships, and your ability to fully engage in the activities that bring you joy. Perhaps you've noticed that the ringing becomes more prominent during stressful meetings, or maybe the buzzing seems loudest just when you're trying to fall asleep. These personal patterns become the foundation of your individualized tinnitus management plan, designed around your unique triggers, lifestyle, and goals for finding relief.
Your Personalized Path to Relief
Your tinnitus management journey combines cutting-edge sound therapy technologies with personalized counseling strategies that address both the auditory and emotional aspects of your experience. We might recommend specialized hearing devices that generate soothing background sounds specifically calibrated to mask your particular tinnitus frequency, or develop relaxation techniques tailored to your most challenging listening environments.
Every aspect of your treatment plan evolves with your progress and changing needs. Whether you're learning to redirect your attention away from tinnitus during important conversations, discovering which environmental sounds bring you the most relief, or developing bedtime routines that promote restful sleep despite persistent ringing, your management strategy becomes as unique as your personal tinnitus story.
Auditory Processing Disorder
Helping You Find Clarity When You Struggle to Understand
You might notice that you hear sounds perfectly well, yet struggle to understand conversations in noisy environments, follow multi-step directions, or distinguish between similar-sounding words. This isn't a hearing loss in the traditional sense—it's Auditory Processing Disorder, a condition where your auditory system has difficulty interpreting and organizing the sounds your ears are clearly receiving.
APD affects how your brain processes auditory information, making it challenging to filter background noise, understand speech in complex listening situations, or remember what you've heard. You might find yourself frequently asking "what?" even though you heard someone speaking, or feeling exhausted after trying to follow conversations in restaurants or meetings.
Every person's auditory processing challenges are unique to their individual neurological patterns and life experiences. That's why we begin with comprehensive diagnostic testing specifically designed to understand how your auditory system processes information—not just whether you can hear sounds, but how effectively your brain interprets them.
Your treatment plan might include specialized auditory training exercises, environmental modifications tailored to your daily routines, or assistive listening technologies that enhance speech clarity in your most challenging listening environments. We work closely with you to develop strategies that fit seamlessly into your work, social, and family life.