Hey Kristina,

 

Do you have an FM system? If you do there is a great way to do listening checks. This is how I do mine. So you would need your reciever on your hearing aid, and then an FM system. I have the Phonak Smartlink. The smartlink comes with an adapter at the bottom that allows you to connect other accessories to it. One of the accesories is a boom mic. This is traditionally a microphone worn around the ear and has an extension that goes to the front of the mouth. So you take the mic of the boom mic and you put the tubing of the stethoset (or size 13 tubing) and put it over the mic. If it's too tight, expand it with tubing expander) Once you have the tubing over the microphone, put a stethoset bulb on the tubing. You then place the hearing aid into the bulb, the sound from the hearing aid is then transferred thru the mic thru the FM and then wireless thru the air to your hearing aids. It works great for me. Let me know if you need anything.

 

I'm a 4th year AuD student and have gone down your road. Let me know if I can be of any help.

 

Mark

 

On 9/5/08, ka25@... <ka25@...> wrote:

Hello everyone!

I am a second year audiology grad student and i was wondering how you
can test other hearing aids when we have hearing aids and things
ourselves. I know there are ways to do it and i just wanted to get some
feedback on how its done.

Thanks!
Kristina