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<blockquote data-quote="TheyAreLegallyAdultsNow" data-source="post: 379775" data-attributes="member: 8405"><p>Star, </p><p></p><p>Wow... sending big hugs to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p><p></p><p>I believe many states have a Vocational Rehab type program that sometimes provides funding for hearing aids. There can be a lonnnnnng wait depending on how funds for the year have been spent. I'm not sure if they follow the "Fiscal Year" that either ends or begins in October.... but I'd go ahead and make an appointment to get that ball rolling. </p><p></p><p>ALSO my brother is a bargain hunter. He found a tremendous deal through COSTCO for very high tech "digital" hearing aids at a mere fraction of the cost of what a private provider (dr/audiologist office) would charge.</p><p></p><p>ALSO I don't know what kind of hearing loss your DF has... but if simple amplification can provide a partial improvement there are some pretty cool options that are fairly inexpensive. </p><p></p><p>A couple of years ago my brother had been complaining that his co-workers didn't believe he had a hearing loss because he was young, and my brother's original "invisible in the ear" hearing aid actually did not serve him well for many reasons. </p><p></p><p>My brother frequently said he thought people might be more contientious about looking into his face to speak if he had the "honking big" over the ear "old-fashioned" type of hearing aid that would be pretty obvious. </p><p></p><p>I saw a hearing device that looked like the old fashioned beige over-the-ear aid for $5.00 YES FIVE DOLLARS at Dollar General chain. (They may still have some? Might be worth a try!!!!) I mailed them to my brother as a joke encouraging him to hang the back over his ears to help buy his coworkers a clue. He tried them and found they actually worked better to help him hear than his VERY EXPENSIVE first pair of "invisible" in-canal aids. </p><p></p><p>It turns out my brother has multiple contributing factors to his hearing loss and SIMPLE AMPLIFICATION is one of the types of aid that helps him best. He now has his "Costco" digital aids with amplification and other perks. He loves them. They haven't made his hearing perfect... but they have improved his hearing quite a bit. </p><p></p><p>As a matter of fact... he told me he was bringing the "Dollar General" $5 aids when he went white water rafting because they did work well and he didn't want to risk damaging or loosing his new fancy aids in the rapids!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheyAreLegallyAdultsNow, post: 379775, member: 8405"] Star, Wow... sending big hugs to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I believe many states have a Vocational Rehab type program that sometimes provides funding for hearing aids. There can be a lonnnnnng wait depending on how funds for the year have been spent. I'm not sure if they follow the "Fiscal Year" that either ends or begins in October.... but I'd go ahead and make an appointment to get that ball rolling. ALSO my brother is a bargain hunter. He found a tremendous deal through COSTCO for very high tech "digital" hearing aids at a mere fraction of the cost of what a private provider (dr/audiologist office) would charge. ALSO I don't know what kind of hearing loss your DF has... but if simple amplification can provide a partial improvement there are some pretty cool options that are fairly inexpensive. A couple of years ago my brother had been complaining that his co-workers didn't believe he had a hearing loss because he was young, and my brother's original "invisible in the ear" hearing aid actually did not serve him well for many reasons. My brother frequently said he thought people might be more contientious about looking into his face to speak if he had the "honking big" over the ear "old-fashioned" type of hearing aid that would be pretty obvious. I saw a hearing device that looked like the old fashioned beige over-the-ear aid for $5.00 YES FIVE DOLLARS at Dollar General chain. (They may still have some? Might be worth a try!!!!) I mailed them to my brother as a joke encouraging him to hang the back over his ears to help buy his coworkers a clue. He tried them and found they actually worked better to help him hear than his VERY EXPENSIVE first pair of "invisible" in-canal aids. It turns out my brother has multiple contributing factors to his hearing loss and SIMPLE AMPLIFICATION is one of the types of aid that helps him best. He now has his "Costco" digital aids with amplification and other perks. He loves them. They haven't made his hearing perfect... but they have improved his hearing quite a bit. As a matter of fact... he told me he was bringing the "Dollar General" $5 aids when he went white water rafting because they did work well and he didn't want to risk damaging or loosing his new fancy aids in the rapids! [/QUOTE]
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