Losing your hearing
Most hearing loss occurs gradually and as we adjust and compensate, the symptoms become difficult to recognize. You might being turning up the volume on the TV or ask others to repeat themselves.When our hearing begins to fade, we tend to forget how things really sound. We live in a quieter world, unaware that we missing many soft sounds of everyday like the patter of rain or birdsongs.
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Indicators of Hearing Loss
Most hearing losses occur gradually, so the symptoms are often that you’re not even sure if its happening.
Test yourself below. If you answer YES to any of these questions, you need to have a through examination by a hearing care professional.
- Do people seem to number or speak in a softer voice than they used to?
- Do you feel tired or irritable after a long conversation?
- Do you sometimes miss key words in a sentence, or frequently need to ask people to repeat themselves?
Infants Born with Hearing Loss
In many situations, this type of Congenital Hearing Loss occurs as a direct result of heredity. ALPS runs an early identification program to benefit the hearing impaired child from the very beginning to ensure early integration into the social main stream.
What causes us to lose our hearing?
Hearing loss is a natural consequence of getting older. Our hearing ability worsens from our 30s or 40s & onwards and almost half of people over age of 50 have difficulties understanding speech in noisy situations. And when we reach our 80s, more than 75% of us suffer from a hearing loss.
Noise at work is a common cause of hearing loss. But also loud music can damage one’s hearing severely. Music is the main reason that so many young people suffer from diminished hearing.
Hearing loss can have other causes than ones mentioned above. Disease, infections, drugs, heredity, congenital or physical damage can also play a role.