If you’re reading this, chances are that you’re dealing with some hearing loss challenges: turning the TV volume up, feeling lost in conversations, missing instructions at work… hearing loss can be confusing, frustrating, and isolating. Many of us believe that...
Apple’s Hearing Aid Features Released | Our Initial Impressions
Today, October 28, 2024, Apple released its iOS 18.1 software, which includes the long-anticipated hearing health features. This release has been a long time coming, as we have closely monitored the progress, announcements, and initial rumors over the past nine...
What Is Lenire, and How Does It Work?
Lenire is a scientifically backed treatment method for tinnitus that you can use from the comfort of your own home. While many other tinnitus treatment methods feature single stimulation methods like sound therapy and tinnitus retraining therapies, Lenire is unique...
Apple Officially Announces a Hearing Test and Hearing Aid Feature | What This Means
Yesterday (September 9, 2024), Apple held an online event to make a number of announcements about their next generation of iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods. Having shared that Apple was rumored to be launching a 'Hearing Aid Mode' earlier this year, we watched with...
Effective Earwax Removal Techniques: A Guide by Highline Hearing
Managing your earwax, or cerumen, is an important part of keeping your ears and your hearing healthy. However, it’s often mishandled or overlooked entirely, which can lead to hearing loss challenges, dizziness, tinnitus, and more. At Highline Audiology and Hearing...
Turn Down the Volume! Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in Children
When you think of hearing loss, what kind of person do you think of? Perhaps your parents, turning up the volume on the TV, or your grandparents, trying to hear the family around the dinner table. We don’t often think of children with hearing loss. For many of us, we...
Inspiring Stories from Our Patients—Send These to a Loved One Considering Hearing Loss Treatment
We get calls each day from people across the Seattle area who are concerned about their own hearing or that of a loved one—questions, concerns, and a need for clarification are all understandable, and we’re happy to provide answers! However, we’ve noticed a common...
How Can Hearing Aids Help Me at Work?
Did you know that approximately 15% of American adults ages 18 or older report some level of hearing loss? That’s almost 38 million people, about twice the population of New York! Hearing is an essential part of our daily lives: from driving to cooking to chatting...
Are You Too Young to Have Hearing Loss?
Perhaps you’ve noticed some struggles hearing recently. Someone says something to you and you have to ask for repetition, or you don’t hear them entirely. Perhaps the music you listen to is more muffled, or you have to turn up the volume on the TV at night. But you’re...
How Hearing Loss Can Lead to Cognitive Decline
Despite how intrinsically linked our hearing is to many other functions of our bodies, people often don’t realize just how much hearing loss can affect the rest of our bodies. Untreated hearing loss has been connected to issues with balance, social isolation, and...