Do any of these situations apply to the way your current hearing aid system works for you? While watching your favorite TV show, movie or sports game, have you noticed the volume is so loud that others have to raise their voices to talk to you and each other? Do you strain to hear soft sounds or cringe at the playful screeches of your grandchildren because they are too loud? Or, while eating dinner at your favorite restaurant with others, do you find yourself wishing that your old-style hearing aids adjusted more accurately for volume and reverberant background noise?

Understanding speech in noisy environments, such as restaurants, is perhaps the greatest challenge a hearing aid wearer faces. It is, in many cases, the ultimate test of a hearing instrument. Widex, the manufacturer of fully digital hearing instruments, has announced the results of a recent clinical study that shows Senso Diva, their premier digital hearing instrument, automatically improves speech understanding in noise.

The research study, conducted at a prestigious U.S. university and at the Widex research center in Chicago, conclusively demonstrated how the advanced Diva improves hearing in quiet and noisy situations, at distances, in music, and on the telephone. A detailed summary of the study is available in our offices, but a highlight includes: Twenty adult subject-patients participated, all with mild to moderate hearing losses. The subjects, who all wore analog or programmable hearing aids, were unaware of the purpose of the study. Diva provided more benefit in speech understanding in noisy and reverberant environments than the subject's hearing aids.

As many of our patients know, we respect Widex hearing aid technology. The advanced noise reduction system in the Diva constantly analyzes incoming sounds in all 15 of its independent channels in order to better distinguish between speech and noise. The clinical study also demonstrated that the unique Diva Locator%u2122 feature, combined with advanced dual microphone technology and digital signal processing, improved speech understanding in noise.

If you find it a challenge to hear in noisy situations, as so many hearing-impaired people do with or without their hearing aids, then we challenge you and your old-style aids to come in for a demonstration of the performance of the clinically proven Senso Diva 100% digital hearing instrument. Come hear the digital difference the Diva could make for you!