Your First Appointment

We always budget plenty of time to give you a full evaluation and answer your questions. Your first appointment will take approximately two hours, and you'll walk out with an understanding of your hearing loss, your treatment options, and (if you decide to purchase hearing aids) how to get the most out of your hearing devices.

We recommend bringing your significant other to your appointment. They can give additional insight into your hearing loss and make notes of the information we give you. This also allows us to run our tests using their familiar voice instead of ours.

• When you arrive, we'll greet you and help you get situated. Our office is comfortable and relaxing. We prefill our forms based on the responses you've already given us so we don’t overwhelm you with paperwork.
• Our hearing instrument specialist will get to know you and then ask you questions to get a better sense of your hearing. She will ask you about your lifestyle and what you've been having trouble hearing. She will also walk you through how the ear works, what exactly hearing loss is, and how hearing loss affects cognitive issues and memory.
• Next, we run through our hearing evaluation. This includes a video otoscope (which lets you see inside your own ear), as well as pure tone, bone conduction, speech recognition testing, and more. We'll also do a speech-in-noise test, which lets us evaluate a common challenge among people with hearing loss.
• After your evaluation, we'll go over your results and what they mean. Then we'll talk about what kind of hearing aids might fit your hearing loss and your lifestyle. We'll program a pair of demo hearing aids to your prescription and let you try them out while we discuss your options.
• If you decide you do want to move forward with hearing aids, we'll set you up with a 45-day risk-free trial, and then we'll keep in touch to see how you feel about your new hearing devices!