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Saline Audiology is the sweetest place around to have your hearing checked!

Give Saline Audiology a call and schedule a hearing check-up today!
501-778-3868 or 501-922-0053

    February Special
Dry & Store $100.00
(Reg. $125.00)

Dry & Store gently circulates warm, dry air around your hearing instruments.

Most users report better sound quality and fewer hearing aid repairs.
Receive a small box of chocolate with any Dry & Store purchase
during the month of February!

 Saline Audiology
501-778-3868 or 501-922-0053

Saline Audiology is a full service audiology practice owned and operated since 1997 by veteran doctors of Audiology, Lisa Richey and Credonna Miller.

With offices in Benton and Hot Springs Village, the clinics offer a wide range of services for infants through geriatrics.  Evaluations and follow-up care are provided for all types of hearing problems, dizziness/vertigo, and state-of-the-art hearing aid fittings.

Keeping abreast of the latest technologies in amplification devices and latest research in the field, Saline Audiology provides each patient with the assurance of excellent expertise and knowledgeable guidance with patient commitment being a top priority.

Saline Audiology
5 Medical Park Drive, Suite 101
Benton, Arkansas 72105
501-778-3868
or
101 Este Way, Suite 2
Hot Springs Village, Arkansas 71909
501-922-0053

www.salineaudiology.com

By making assistive listening hearing aid compatible, churches are leading the way to doubled hearing aid functionality for people with hearing loss.

“Let’s Loop America’s Worship Centers”

Click the link below to read the entire article by David Myers

http://www.hearingloop.org/00TechWorship.pdf

If you have a hearing loss in both ears, you can take advantage of your ear’s inamte ability to process sound in the most natural way: to hear with two ears.  this is called binaural hearing.  Wearing two hearing instruments can improve your hearing in noise, create the “stereo effect” and provide better sound identification and localization.

If you’re thankful for hearing the sounds of life…

Here’s a way you can start enjoying even better sound quality, dependability, and comfort today!

Dry & Store
Dry & Store gently circulates warm, dry air around your hearing instruments.
Most users report better sound quality and fewer hearing aid repairs.

During the month of January we are offering the Dry & Store at a discounted price of $100.00 (reg. $125.00)
Stop by either office and get your Dry & Store at this great price!

Saline Audiology
5 Medical Park Drive, Suite 101
Benton, Ar. 72015
501-778-3868

DON”T MISS OUT ON THIS GREAT OFFER!

Why churches notoriously have poor acoustics…

Churches are usually large, with very high ceilings and a large volume of space.  Add to that the fact that most churches are constructed of hard – walled materials such as stone, cement, plaster, marble, and glass.   The ceilings are usually peaked which gives a megaphone effect.  This can create annoyingly loud spots and / or acoustically “dead” spots.

So when a pastor speaks at a large church, the sound bounces off multiple hard surfaces.  The prolongation of the voice caused by multiple reflections is called reverberation.  Reverberation time can be measured:  large churches have a large reverberation time.  This lengthy reverberation time “smears” speech by eliminating the stops or gaps in speech that allows us to recognize the beginnings and endings of words.  This is why it is so difficult to understand the sermon.  To complicate this even more, any noise generated by talking, coughing, by babies crying, and the like adds to the overall noise level to further degrade the speech of the presenter.

In church, the best solution is a hearing loop system.  A hearing loop encircles the congregation’s seating area with a cooper wire.  Hearing aids equipped with a telecoil (which can be activated by pushing your program button) will pick up the sound that is plugged into the loop area, which should be the speaker or musician coming through the microphone.  This provides direct-to-your-ear sound delivery and avoids the noise and reverberation that degrades the speech message.

Arkansas Loops a division of Saline Audiology can do a free site survery and demo for your church.  Contact us if you have questions about a loop system or want to set up a survey.  501-778-3868

More than 31 million Americans have some type of hearing problem.  Below is a hearing health quick test.  Score 2 points for Yes, 1 point for Sometimes, and ) points for No.  Scores of 3 or more may mean that you have a hearing problem.  scores of 6 or more strongly suggest that a hearing check is warranted.

1.  Do you find it difficult to follow a converasation in a noisy restaurant or crowded room?
YES     NO     SOMETIMES

2.  Do you sometimes feel that people are mumbling or not speaking clearly?
YES    NO     SOMETIMES

3.  Do you experience difficulty following dialog in the theater?
YES     NO     SOMETIMES

4.  Do you sometimes find it difficult to understand a speaker at a public meeting religious service?
YES     NO     SOMETIMES

5.  Do you find yourself asking people to repeat themselves?
YES     NO     SOMETIMES

6.  Do you find men’s voices easier to understand than women’s?
YES     NO     SOMETIMES

7.  Do you experience difficulty understanding soft or whispered speech?
YES     NO     SOMETIMES

8.  Do you sometimes have difficulty understanding speech on the telephone?
YES     NO     SOMETIMES

9.  Does a hearing problem cause you to feel embarrassed when meeting new people?
YES     NO     SOMETIMES

10.  Do you feel handicapped by a hearing problem?
YES     NO     SOMETIMES

11.Does a hearing problem cause you to visit friends, relatives or neighbors less than you would like?
YES     NO     SOMETIMES

12.  Do you experience ringing or noise in your ears?
YES     NO     SOMETIMES

13.  Do you hear better with one ear than the other?
YES     NO      SOMETIMES

14.  Have you had any significant noise exposure during work, recreation or military service?
YES    NO     SOMETIMES

15.  Have any of your relatives (by birth) had a hearing loss?
YES     NO     SOMETIMES

Call Saline Audiology at 501-778-3868 or 501-922-0053 to schedule and hearing exam.

Audiologists use audiometers, computers, and other testing devices to meausre the loudness at which a person begins to hear sounds, the ability to distinguish between sounds, and the impact of hearing loss on an individual’s daily life.  In an addition audiologists use computer equipment to evaluate and diagnose balance disorders.  Audiologists interpret these results and may coordinate them with medical, educational, and psychological information to make a diagnosis and determine a course of treatment.

As a primary hearing health provider, audiologists refer patients to physicans when the hearing or balance problem requires medical or surgical evaluation or treatment.

At Saline Audiology , we are here to help you hear better!
Schedule an appointment today at 501-778-3868 or 501-922-0053