St. John Health offers audiology services, including evaluation of hearing and hearing aids at several locations. We are also linked to The Holley Ear Institute, a non-profit organization that provides life-enhancing programs for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Programs include educational and recreational summer programs for Deaf families, hearing families with Deaf children, Deaf/Blind adults and teens, Deaf seniors and Hard of Hearing and late-deafened adults.
Rating Your Hearing
How can you tell if you have a hearing problem? Look over this list of questions from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. If you answer yes to three or more of them, you may want to talk to your health care provider about getting a hearing evaluation.
Do you have a problem hearing over the telephone?
Do you have trouble following the conversation when two or more people are talking at the same time?
Do people complain that you turn the TV volume up too high?
Do you have to strain to understand conversation?
Do you have trouble hearing in a noisy background?
Do you find yourself asking people to repeat themselves?
Do many people you talk to seem to mumble (or not speak clearly)?
Do you misunderstand what others are saying and respond inappropriately?
Do you have trouble understanding the speech of women and children?
Do people get annoyed because you misunderstand what they say?
