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Ear horn and ear trumpet lead to this page, but it contains no information about them. This page leads you to horn (acoustic), which just leads you back here again. Which means there's essentially no information on Wikipedia about ear trumpets.... Why isn't there a separate article? --Toastedcheese (talk) 23:41, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Quick question
Does the fact that hearing aids amplify sound for a person who already has hearing loss speed up the rate at which such a person loses their hearing? I'm completely deaf in one ear and partially in the other, myself; but I've never had a hearing aid nor even had one suggested for me. Corporal 20:56, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Visiting an audiologist or an Ear-Nose-Throat physician (outside of the US, Canada and the UK) is always your best bet. To me this sounds like an ad, not NPOV. --Etxrge 06:47, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Advice duly accepted. As I was the one who put up the original statement, I have edited it a little for clarity.--Coryp 20:57, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
As an audiologist in the UK for the last 18 years, I've yet to see any evidence that hearing aid use speeds up the rate of hearing loss. If you have it, I would be very keen to see it.--86.148.60.22 (talk) 23:06, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Re:violation of NPOV
Quote: "This chapter is biased determinative opinion which is in violation of NPOV.In the similar way ststement "audiologists are often provides substandard services" would be equallyt unacceptable." What exactly does all this mean?
Have you ever bought a digital hearing aid? One that hasn't been thoroughly adjusted to your individual needs, measured and electonically/digitally tested? Only a qualified audiometrist (or its equivalent titles and accompanying qualifications) can do that. You may want to throw £200 away but I would rather spend £800 on professional services which can guarantee (or as near as dammit) me an aid that works for me. This has absolutely nothing to do with POV, this is helpful reminder of what may happen if you don't care. Have reversed the para in the article. Dieter Simon 00:48, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
To: Dieter Simon. You can't simply give advises based on your personal experience. If you want give information about alternative way of getting HA , such as online its fine, but you can't say "this is better than that, so don't do that'. "BEWARE"(???). You put warning inside the information article.(???) Who are you kidding. You want to state "There is A and there is B". Fine. You want to say "A is the first letter and B is second". Fine. But you can't simply state "I like B. It's better sound. It's better than A". Why do I even have to explain this basic things about neutrality to a grown person, unless he has a personal agenda. BTW I clearly explained reason for my edit. Go ahead refresh your info about rules of NPOV. That what you should've done before reediting me. Do the right thing and undo your edit. P.S. BTW Been there, done it. Both way. Our personal experiences has nothing to do with neutral and unbiased info. Even if they 100% true. There is numerous discussion boards, forums to vent your anger, to express your personal opinion or to give advice. One of it,which I put link to could've been just the right place for you. And why did you remove link to it? What's resonable unbiased explanation you can give me about it? Mind boggling...216.233.120.165
To: Dieter Simon.If you would've been asked to create a manual for TV set, people would've know exactly which program is best for them, but have no idea how to switch channels. Give them info of how to use it and let them make their own mind what to watch. You replace one mess with another. Same judgmental opinion, only now compounded into semantic."Need, should, have to, must be, more important"... A lot of recommendations, very little info. May be I am not fair to your efforts. Criticizing you all the time and you are the one who's trying... But I have to. You have such a record contributing to Wiki, you should know better what favoritism means. I might take up on your advise and contribute to this issue in a little while. Meanwhile, I see that you are making attempts, but perhaps something personal, biased holding you back. You asked me a few questions before. I answered them. Now its my turn. Are you an audi? Do you have any personal relation to that field? Regards.216.233.120.165
Buyer beware
It should be noted that the heading "Buyer beware" has been reverted some time ago as being POV. Expect the worst. Heading changer beware. Dieter Simon 22:54, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Hearing Aid Sale
It was not an experiment. I've contributed to this article before. If you have bias or no info regarding the article paragraph please restrain yourself of further editing. The latest edit provided very little or hardly any related info regarding paragraph title. If the potential editor willing to make informative contribution I'll be gladly provide some points to cover for the paragraph title purpose. I'm reverting it back to previous version by SM. Please discus it before you attempt to make any changes. 216.233.121.2 6:42PM MAY9 2006
and, still, i would like to hear of personal experience regarding types and makes of HA. I need this for my old mother (88) who is a misician , loosing her hearing. thanks ashrab
A reminder to please keep opinions out of the article itself, especially in the "hearing aid sales" section . (I've made some small edits to bring this back in line with WP policy.) Government standards for consumer practices are things we can cite and leave verifiable for readers. No matter how good or helpful you think advice is, advice and opinions that are not previously published and cited from a reliable source cannot be verified and, thus, do not belong in the article. --Ds13 17:23, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Buying a Hearing Aid The article should make it clear that outside the United States many advanced countries have health services which supply free or cheap hearing aids. Such a service has no built-in money making bias so the advice given is probably more trustworthy. 82.47.176.254 23:20, 2 January 2007 (UTC)mikeL
Hearing Loop systems
I have added a note to the telecoil section about hearing loops. I was surprised that there seems currently no article about these on WP but I guess it is because they remain relatively rare in the US. In the UK they are almost mandatory in many public places because of our Disability Discrimination Act 2005. For a number of years I have been on the Environmental Aids committee of Hearing Concern - see http://www.hearingconcern.org.uk/campaigns/camp_envaids.html
I shall shortly be writing a seperate article on Induction Loop systems to expand this topic. Dsergeant 15:37, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Hard of Hearing Advocacy link
The link I tried to add was removed because it was was considered spam. If you go to the "US and News and World Report" site and do a search on hearing aids, you will find a comprehensive article regarding hearing aids, "Good Vibrations: They're still hearing aids. But they're better--and smaller". In this article the site I tried to add is referenced along with all the other sites that are already in the external link to this article. The following is a quote from the article:
"If Ralph Nader had run a website in the '60s for people with hearing problems, it might have been like Hard of Hearing Advocates. Nothing and no one are beyond criticism on this volunteer-run site. The message board is especially feisty."
I am confused as to how this was perceived as spam as this site does not sell anything and I don't believe there are any advertisements on it either. This is the premier hard of hearing online forum. hoha2 00:18 AM, April 20 2007 (UTC)
Pasting the following from elsewhere in reply to hoha2's comments:
Dieter Simon 22:44, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Recent advancements etc.
There are many references in this article to "recently" that I would think need "as of" beside them. I don't know if the recent advancements mentioned are from now (2007) or from the day wikipedia was started. Just giving "as of" would be enough, because the word "recently" can only apply for a while, and can mean anything (World War I was a recent war compared to the crusades, but WWI isn't recent at all compared to Desert Storm). Just give the date whatever was introduced, or if you only know that its recent, at least say "recent as of" so that the article can stand up to time even if it isn't continually edited. I'd like to think the guidelines would want articles in a state that if archived now would still provide a lot
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