News & Events
At Alpha Hearing we’re passionate about the work we do for our community. We want to keep our community up to date with the latest information that may affect them, and we want to actively create community engagement. Our news and events will share what’s been happening with our community and to keep you all informed of the latest trends, news and research.
Coronavirus Update – We are open!
To our dear Alpha Hearing community, We hope this post finds you all healthy, well and in good spirits. This website will be an important source of updates, news and information. At Alpha Hearing, we are aware that the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak will create unique...
Research Links Hearing Loss to Dementia
People often ask why untreated hearing loss matters. They wonder why someone should wear hearing aids all day if they can “get by” without them or why they need them if they don’t socialize.The answers are not always simple and resistance to use of hearing aids is...
Jacket allows deaf people to ‘feel’ the music
by Hasan Chowdhury of the telegraph.co.uk 9 Oct 2019. A high-tech jacket is giving deaf people the chance to “feel music” through an immersive experience that aims to open the doors of gigs and concerts to the hard of hearing for the first time. CuteCircuit, a...
Sea Anemone May Repair Damaged Hearing
The small hearing cells (called hair cells) in mammals, such as humans, have limited ability to repair themselves after trauma. For this reason, when our hair cells are damaged due to noise, trauma or aging (wear-and-tear), we suffer permanent...
Hearing Aid Evolution – An Imagined Retrospective
Source: HearingLikeMe.comAs a hearing aid wearer, I’ve always been fascinated with the evolution of the hearing aid. The device has come a long way in just a few hundred years. With technology evolving so fast, who the heck knows what hearing technology will be like a...
Slowing Brain Changes
Article review by Michael Wong; Principal Audiologist, Alpha Hearing. I was interested to read this article by journalist Jill Margo in the Australian Financial Review (Apr 5 2016). Through my years in clinical practice, I have come to believe that...