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Connecting with Your Dad This Father’s Day
With Father’s Day just around the corner, chances are you’ll be visiting your family for the weekend. Family is an important part of our lives, giving us a place where we can be ourselves and feel accepted. What’s the biggest barrier to easy communication with your...
How do Hearing Aids Work?
Your hearing aids accompany you every day, whether you’re going to the grocery store or the office. As with most of our electronics, hearing aids are user-friendly and simple to operate. Simply insert them and switch them on – and voila! Clear sound. But if you stop...
Healthy Hearing and Healthy Families
It may be obvious from our name: here at Family Hearing Center of Hawaii, we care about families. In this month of May, we are celebrating Better Speech and Hearing Month, organized by the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA). Better Speech and Hearing...
Three Major Issues to Consider With Any Hearing Aid Purchase
1. Lifetime of On Going Maintenance & Service. Regardless of the brand or cost of your hearing aid living in Hawaii if you’re not getting your instruments cleaned and serviced at a minimum of every three months it is very likely you’re not hearing like you should...
The Side Effects of Wearing Hearing Aids
Many are aware of the awesome benefit wearing hearing aids can bring, such as being able to hear conversations more clearly, enjoying social situation with family and friends and the safety benefits of being able to hear one’s surroundings properly. Yet, did you know...
Hearing Aids: Staying Close with Mom & Dad
While some may shy away from hearing aids, they’re often the difference between having a relationship or none at all. To me, being closely connected with your family is what life’s about. I just visited my Mom and Dad. My mom just turned 88 and a couple of months ago...
Sluggish Connections
Don’t you just hate it when your talking to someone on the phone an the call gets dropped? Or you can hear them but they can’t hear you. Also what I can hardly tolerate is when an Internet connection is very, very slow. Or the connection drops off and I have to try to...
I have been waiting for 39 years to tell you this…
A Game Changer. I have been waiting for 39 years to tell you this. At Family Hearing Centers we exclusively have a new hearing aid that can help people hear better in noisy situations and environments than people with normal hearing. Yep you heard me right. In fact up...
Correcting a Hearing Loss Changes Everything
Correcting a hearing loss will change everything in your life. If you have an uncorrected hearing loss you may not realize: How many times you misunderstand what others say. How much resentment everyone talking with you develops because they have to repeat what they...
Noise & Permanent Hearing Loss
Most People don’t realize that it doesn’t take a gun shot or a jet plane accelerating near you to cause permanent hearing loss. Permanent hearing loss can occur from simple daily tasks such as yard work (mowing the lawn) or using power tools for hobbies or home...