How to master listening skills after wearing a hearing aid


The purpose of mastering listening skills is to enable deaf patients to listen well in different environments and improve their listening ability.It can help deaf patients use a variety of senses (hearing, vision, associative abilities), so that they can be effectively combined, and hope to get help and cooperation from family, society, and friends, so that deaf people can enhance their self-confidence and be better. Communicate with people.Listening skills include the following aspects:

1. For people with hearing loss

(1) Appropriately change the lifestyle for quietness and avoid noise environment.

(2) Bring the good ear close to the speaker.Minimize environmental noise, such as turning off the radio or TV.

(4) If possible, the listening position should be as close as possible to the speaker (but not too close).

(5) At the party, you can sit with someone who is willing to help to achieve the purpose of explaining the topic of the conversation.

(6) Try to find the best seat as much as possible when attending the meeting.

(7) Choose the best hearing distance (1 to 5 meters) so that you can hear the speaker’s voice and see the speaker’s mouth shape.

(8) Relax and not be nervous when listening.

(9) For the unheard question, you can ask the speaker in another way or ask for repetition.

(10) Try to understand the topic of the conversation or the content of the meeting before the meeting.

(11) Prepare paper and pen for written communication.

2. For family members and relatives and friends

(1) The speaker should face the hearing impaired with his face facing the light. (2) Do not cover the face when talking, so that the listener can notice the speaker’s facial expressions and mouth movements.

(3) The talk between the speaker and the hearing-impaired person should be at the same level. The listener is standing, you should be standing; the listener is sitting, you should be sitting.

(4) Draw the interviewer’s attention to the context.

(5) Speaking speed can be a little slower, but not too slow; speaking clearly, but avoid yelling.

(6) The speaker and the listener should stay in the same room as much as possible.

(7) Tell the content of the conversation in advance and communicate around the topic.

(8) Make sure that people with hearing loss can understand the conversation.

(9) Encourage people to talk to people with hearing loss. This will make them relax and talk easier.

3. Listening environment

(1) When dining in a restaurant, you can find a place away from doors, windows and kitchens to avoid noise.

(2) Put some soft furniture in the room to reduce echo.

(3) Apply soft material surface treatment to the walls and floors of the room to reduce echo and impact noise.

(4) Avoid outdoor noise.

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