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Hearing loss can cause a wide range of problems, from an inability to hear words clearly to a lack of awareness of the surrounding environment, leading to social isolation and, in severe cases, depression. Hearing loss often develops slowly, so the individual with the loss adjusts to living life at reduced sound levels. Family members or friends often first notice the loss, and alert the individual to the problem. The signs of hearing loss include misunderstanding words, having to frequently ask others to repeat what they said, raising the volume of the television excessively, and difficulty hearing group conversations or hearing over background noise. Hearing loss can occur at any age, and it is becoming more prevalent in younger generations due to exposure to daily levels of excessive noise from work, music, concerts, and MP3 players. Hearing loss is a hidden disability and society in general can be unaware of the severe side effects of hearing loss. It is estimated that 17 per cent of Irish people suffer some form of hearing loss. The good news is that hearing loss can be helped by a few simple measures.

We are Irish hearing aid specialists, with over ten years in business in the Leinster area, with qualified hearing aid audiologists.

Coronation Street star William Roache (Ken Barlow) recently revealed he is 50 per cent deaf in both ears, which he left untreated, refusing to wear hearing aids for many years, and suffered from social isolation and difficulties at work as a result. The Coronation Street actor reportedly said that vanity had stopped him from wearing a hearing device until now.

The children of Kilkenny and the south-east region need a second level school for deaf so that they can continue to live at home during their second level education.

AES Sound Reduction Solutions, is introducing an eco-friendly answer to noise pollution at this year’s Modern Homes and Building Exhibition in Kilkenny, (7, 8 & 9 November 2008).

Following the opening of the new state-of-the-art hearing clinic Hidden Hearing this week, Kilkenny people now have the country’s most technologically advanced hearing clinic at their disposal.

Children with ear problems are unable to access audiograms in Kilkenny as public patients, as there is no audiologist available.

The use of Ipods and listening to loud music is one of the main sources of hearing problems in young people.

Blindness, they say, cuts you off from things. Deafness cuts you off from people. The ability to communicate is one of the things that makes us human, yet many people go through life with impaired hearing and do little or nothing about it. If we needed glasses, we would see an optician, but when we need a hearing aid, not everyone will see an audiologist.

Blindness, they say, cuts you off from things. Deafness cuts you off from people. The ability to communicate is one of the things that makes us human, and yet many people go through life with impaired hearing and do little or nothing about it. If we needed glasses, we would see an optician. But when we need a hearing aid, not everyone will see an audiologist.