Alpha Hearing & Speech Centers

3 Things to Expect from Hearing Aid Repairs

In an effort to provide an element of reassurance, we’ve put together a guide to 3 simple things you should expect when your hearing aid needs repairs.

Risks of Occupational Hearing Loss and How Employers Can Mitigate Them

On the job, hearing is one of your most important senses. When it is lost, either partially or totally, it can affect how you do your job.

Trends in Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids and Hearing Aid Compatibility for Wireless Phones

A 10-year snapshot of the availability of telecoil and Bluetooth wireless technologies for hearing aid users. It also shows how the different Bluetooth technologies are becoming more widely employed in hearing aids, and why there is good reason to believe more universal streaming will be available soon.

How to Eliminate Feedback from Your Hearing Aid

Hearing aid feedback can be alarming, annoying, distracting and embarrassing all at the same time. Fortunately, eliminating feedback in your hearing aids is a simple process.

Why restaurants are so loud nowadays

The Right Way to Clean Your Ears

Your ears are self-cleaning, and the movements of your jaw force earwax from the canal to the outer ear. If you try to remove it, your ear produces more wax

Q-tips are sending thousands of kids to the ER

Feel the need to clean your child's ears? Step away from that cotton swab.

How to determine if your child has speech and hearing impairments

ST. LOUIS, MO- May is national Better Hearing And Speech Month and Walker Scottish Rite Clinic is working to raise awareness about their no-cost services available to parents to help detect and treat childhood speech and hearing issues.Director Jacob Gutshall and Sheri Mistretta of the Light Foundation join FOX2 to discuss the warning signs parents should look to determine whether their child has a speech or language disorder.

Live Speech Mapping. How do you know if your hearing aids are in tune

Live speech mapping allows a more accurate fit of hearing aids.

Hearing, speech problems can be detected, dealt with early

Hearing is a complicated process starting with sound waves bumping into the eardrum and causing a vibration.

There are resources for the hard of hearing

Viewpoint: Hearing loss among grandparents or seniors is increasing.

Opti-Speech Clinical Trial helping remove speech impediments

Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center is only facility in the world running a clinical trial using a new speech "training" device to help those with speech impediment or error.

Does Your Significant Other Have "Selective Hearing"?

Do you think your partner has “selective hearing” . . . where they conveniently only hear SOME

Show your loved ones you care: Get hearing aids!

It goes without saying that relationships take work. Communication is especially important, as it is the way we listen to our partner’s concerns and frustrations, and allows us to have conversations about things both important and trivial. But if one of those in the relationship has hearing loss, frustrations can begin to mount. Just a simple conversation becomes difficult, and one of the most crucial elements of a good relationship can be lost.

What’s the difference between physical, occupational or speech therapy?

What is physical, occupational and speech therapy?

Take this test to figure out how tone-deaf you are

And then take a quiz to see if you can tell what different songs are used for

Hearing Loss Linked To Aging of The Brain

Study says older brains may have trouble processing in noisy places