Hearing Loss Solutions With Lace

By Author: Mike Walker
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If you’ve been on YouTube lately, maybe you’ve seen some videos of people suffering from hearing disabilities hearing their own voices for the first time. These touching videos help to show just how far the technology has come. Living with partial or full hearing disability isn’t easy, and the technology is finally here to help many people recover some of their hearing.

Of course, the technology only covers one aspect of hearing recovery. There’s more to hearing than the physical act of hearing alone. Hearing, listening, it has to do with how your brain absorbs and interprets sound, it’s not just about having the right equipment, biological or mechanical, to pick up the vibrations in the air.

When you think about all that your senses have to do for you, it’s really incredible. Those of us with no problems in the listening department can take it for granted, but at any given moment, your ears are picking up any number of sounds. They could be picking up your air conditioner, your refrigerator, traffic outside, music from across the street, a conversation in the next room and your roommate telling you ...
... that we’re out of milk.

So, when you come back home with a gallon of milk an hour later, how is it that we heard that so clearly over the noise and static? To someone who is hearing for the first time, all sounds might sound completely alike, blending together in a flat, static hum.

Well, it’s not magic that allows us to pick the important sounds out of the air and block out or muffle the rest. It has to do with training our brains to pick up what we need to hear. Believe it or not, it’s not just people with disabilities who have a problem with this.

People who grew up in a quiet, rural area might get stressed out in large crowds, or they might have trouble focusing when living in the city. People who grew up with a lot of brothers and sisters might never have to say “What was that?” when someone says something to them. Some of us can’t even make out what a person is saying if they have the slightest accent.

The LACE system helps us to train our brains to better pick up on speech regardless of what’s going on in the background, with results showing improvements of up to forty percent in hearing ability. It’s not just about training us to develop the right habits, but getting rid of the bad ones.

LACE has been proven in field tests to help people with partial and full hearing disability recover not just their hearing, but their ability to listen and listen well.

The Hearing Center has served the Fort Collins, Colorado area and its surrounding communities for several years. We offer a full range of diagnostic and preventative hearing healthcare professional services, including hearing aid screening, evaluations, hearing aids sales and rehabilitative and preventative counseling. We are dedicated to keeping abreast of the latest improvements in technological advancements in the hearing industry and are committed to offering the most current options to our patients. For up-to-date hearing aid information visit The Hearing Center blog.