[obol] Hearing them birds

[STEVE JAGGERS]

This thread reminds me that I have seen ads for various birder specific hearing aids in..?.Audubon, some other birding oriented publication, ABA sales.?..not sure. 
I think there are some available that are quite specific to birding in that they are designed to amplify only higher pitch sounds.

I hope they keep working out the bugs and get costs down as I realize I too begin to experience some progressive loss. 

Steve Jaggers
Portland.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dennis P. Vroman<mailto:dpvroman at budget.net> 
  To: Larry Mcqueen<mailto:larmcqueen at msn.com> ; 'Charles R. Gates'<mailto:cgates at empnet.com> 
  Cc: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu<mailto:obol at lists.oregonstate.edu> 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 5:41 PM
  Subject: [obol] Hearing them birds


  Larry, and other hearing loss folks (me included I'm afraid)

  Perhaps a decade and a bit more now, there was an article in Oregon Birds on 
  this.  A lady in PA composed it I believe.  Her work was to help those with 
  hearing loss, she was a hearing specialist.  I contacted her and ended up 
  purchasing a set of hearing aids.  I'm happy I did, for as Larry mentions 
  they do not correct 100% for hearing loss, but they sure do help!  The 
  really high pitch birds need to be close before I can hear them, but they 
  help greatly to hear even lower pitch songs and calls at a distance further 
  away from me than I could with out them.  It's likely there are better aids 
  out there now than when I got them year ago.  On a side note, the good 
  hearing aids are a bit spendy.

  Dennis...still listening north of Grants Pass



  > Thanks, Charles, for your post.  It's tough for those with normal and
  > supernormal hearing to understand or at least consider, this hidden 
  > handicap
  > of aging birders.  I have new hearing aids (my second pair), which help in
  > many ways, but hearing aids do not restore normal hearing.  In fact, they
  > can block some aspects of normal hearing which are taken for granted, and
  > they can change the quality and reduce the presence of bird calls.  This 
  > is
  > an issue experienced by many and rarely discussed.
  >
  > Larry McQueen 


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