June 10, 2026

Insights for Your Hearing Health

Get trusted tips, insights, and hearing health updates from your hearing care team.

Whether you’re exploring solutions for the first time or a long-time hearing aid user, our experts at Colonial Center for Hearing Audiology are here to offer advice and resources to support your journey.

A Short Guide to Hearing Aids

Hearing aid guides are not hard to find, but most are not exactly reader-friendly, either. Most are generally too lengthy or complicated, generating more confusion rather than less. My guess is that you’re a great deal less interested in the physiology of hearing or in the ins and outs of acoustical engineering and a lot

What Makes Modern Digital Hearing Aids Better?

Technology evolves rapidly: in 2005, the average 40-inch flat screen TV would’ve cost you over $1,500. Now, 10 years later, you can find a 40-inch flat screen TV for about $230. The same has occurred with hearing aids, even though it’s more likely to escape our notice. We notice that TVs become larger, better, and

How to Tell Others About Your Hearing Loss

Hearing loss is known as the invisible disability for a reason. No one can view or observe your hearing loss, and no one can experience your difficulty and stress. The only thing someone can sense is their OWN frustration when they have to constantly repeat themselves. Sadly, those with hearing loss infrequently get the benefit

Life Hacks For Healthy Hearing

Life hack is defined by Oxford Dictionaries as: “A strategy or technique adopted in order to manage one’s time and daily activities in a more efficient way.” Life hacks can help you save both time and money, and some are so simple you’ll wonder why you hadn’t previously thought of them. Creative but simple life-hacks

Preparing For Your Hearing Test

Congratulations on taking the initial step toward better hearing by booking your hearing assessment. You’re already ahead of the game, as a large number of people delay getting a hearing test for years—in some cases decades. But now that you’ve arranged your hearing test, you’ll want to see to it that you’re prepared for the

How Hearing Aids Can Boost Brain Function

Twentieth-century neuroscience has discovered something utterly astonishing: specifically that your brain can change itself well into your adult years. Whereas in the early 1900s it was thought that the brain stopped changing in adolescence, we now understand that the brain reacts to change all throughout life. Neuroplasticity To appreciate how your brain changes, think of

6 Things a Hearing Care Professional Can Do For You

There seems to be more misunderstanding when it pertains to hearing care than with most other medical specializations. We don’t need to ask, for example, what a dentist or eye doctor can do for us. But when it comes to our hearing, we’re oftentimes uncertain as to what action we should take or who we

Getting the Most Out of Your New Hearing Aids

Congratulations—you’re ready to join the millions of Americans who have learned how utilizing hearing aids can make life more exciting and fulfilling. Before long, you’ll be hearing sounds you’ve long forgotten, engaging in stimulating discussions, and listening to music with improved perceptiveness for each instrument. But before you can get to all that, you’ll have

5 Reasons To Pick a Hearing Aid Over a PSAP

You have probably watched the commercials. The ones promoting PSAPs, or personal sound amplification products, assuring an improvement to hearing for as little as 20 dollars. It seems like a terrific bargain—particularly when compared to the substantial selling price of a hearing aid. The fact is, it’s not so much a great deal as it

5 Reasons To Pick a Hearing Aid Over a PSAP

You have probably watched the commercials. The ones promoting PSAPs, or personal sound amplification products, assuring an improvement to hearing for as little as 20 dollars. It seems like a terrific bargain—particularly when compared to the substantial selling price of a hearing aid. The fact is, it’s not so much a great deal as it

10 Surprising Facts About Hearing Loss

Quick question: how many people in the US suffer from some type of hearing loss? What is your answer? I’m willing to bet, if I had to guess, that it was short of the correct answer of 48 million individuals. Let’s take a shot at one more. How many individuals in the United States under

Give the Gift of Hearing This Holiday Season

With one out of every five people in the United States afflicted by some degree of hearing loss, there’s a good chance you know at the least one person who has some difficulty hearing. And bearing in mind the strong connections between healthy hearing and physical, mental, and social health, the holiday season is the