title: The successful hearing aid user.
abstract: Improvements and modifications in design, construction, evaluation, and application procedures with the wearable hearing aid have brought the benefits of successful hearing aid use to an ever increasing proportion of the hearing impaired population. Many of today's successful hearing aid users would have been regarded at one time as extremely poor risks for hearing aid use. As a consequence, many of the prognostic principles developed as guidelines in advising for or against hearing aid trial are no longer true and should be discarded. Every person who experiences difficulties related to a permanent hearing impairment, no matter how slight or severe hearing loss, should have access to aural rehabilitation, including the use of wearable amplication.
mesh_terms: D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006310:Hearing Aids / Q000592:standards; D008722:Methods; D012682:Sensory Aids