Re: Widex Inteo hearing aids

[Guest guest]

Hi - yes, our clinic does the same if you do a trial. The charge

is for the audiologist's time and programming (at least in our

situation). I haven't heard of this particular widex hearing aid

although I understand Widex makes excellent aids and are very cutting

edge. My boys both wear Phonak Superos in their umimplanted ear.

Barbara

Kearns wrote:

> Has anybody heard about or tried the Widex Inteo hearing aids?

> I have been considering a new hearing aid for for the past year and a

half. He uses a MEDEL CI and a phonak sono Forte hearing aid. His aid is over

five years old. He got them when he was 3 months old. He does have some

residual hearing in that ear. His last audiogram showed he heard at 45dB at

250Hz... 85dB at 500 and 1k... 90dB at 2k... 80dB at 4k.

> My audi has been confident with the phonaks and thinks has a good aid for

his needs. She had given me some brochures for other aids to consider when his

current aid dies or I make the decision to upgrade. When we were in the office

last month for earmold impressions I asked again about upgrades and digitals.

Another audi discussed my concerns and added that a lot of kids don't like the

noise reduction feature, which I discussed on this list. She said she would

review 's chart and get back with us on some suggestions.

> Last week when we picked up the earmold our audi recommended the Widex Inteo.

She said they are the latest in technology. They have a special cutting edge

feature that can transfer high pitched sounds into your audible range.

>

> From the brochure - " Somewhat similar to the example of using night-vision

goggles to see in a dark location, Inteo's exciting Audibility Extender can

bring high-pitched sounds like rustling leaves or a bird's song back to you. "

>

> The way it was simply explained to me is that the aid can put the sounds you

can't hear into another range that you are able to hear.

> It's got some other features like " High Definition locator " which is a 15

channel directional microphone system to maximize speech understanding in quiet

and noisy environments. It's got the noise reduction, feedback cancellation and

a bunch of other stuff. It's a bit overwhelming sorting it all out.

> A lot of people have talked about " trialing " hearing aids. That would be the

next step for us. My audi tells me that we would make a decision on which aids

we want, pay for them and then we have 60 - 90 days to " trial " them. If we

don't like them we can return them but they still keep $100. So there still is

an investment. Is this the kind of plan others have done with trialing? I was

hoping that you could try them and only put out money when you confirmed you

liked them.

> Any thoughts on the Inteo?

> Thank you!

>

> K

> 's mom 5.5 years old.

>

>

[Guest guest]

, one thing to consider is that many of these aids are simply too complex

for kids to handle and may require a remote. The Inteo is Widex's top of the

line with gobs of bells and whistles. maggie has had Widex Senso's for nearly 6

years and we've had great success with them. They only have one program, no

remote etc. Digital but no bells and whistles. We realized that while some of

these aids looked terrific on paper, they were totally different when trialing,

figured this out with the Phonak MicroPower. Maggie is 14 and she would have

needed a remote to change programs. Seeing as she lost an entire hearing aid,

I don't have a lot of hope that she'd hold on to a remote. Also it had

automatic noise cancellation. Maggie hated that, which is one of the big

selling points for the aid. In talking to my audiologist, she said that the

most important of the bells and whistles for kids is a directional microphone,

and extended frequencies (amplifying above 4K.) and a program that would

provide more noise cancellation. Does really need the frequency

transposition? - his hearing is not what you'd call a left corner audiogram and

his threshold at 500 is about the same as at 4K. With those type of thresholds,

a power digital should be able to amplify him up to the speech banana nicely.

I'm not an audiologist but the Inteo really looked like it would be more useful

to a grown person who also happened to be an engineer!! Not that it's not a

good aid, but its like my husband says to me - Your car has a 6 CD changer and

you listen to the AM radio. nice to have but if you aren't going to use all the

features you might not want to buy the top of the line.

[Guest guest]

What is a " left corner " audiogram?

Just wondering.

Thanks from Orlando

[Guest guest]

What is a " left corner " audiogram?

Just wondering.

Thanks from Orlando

[Guest guest]

What is a " left corner " audiogram?

Just wondering.

Thanks from Orlando

[Guest guest]

Take a blank audiogram and draw a line making the left corner kind of a

triangle. Just a tiny bit of hearing in the lows, loss greater than 100-110

elsewhere. Basically very profoundly deaf.

Re: Widex Inteo hearing aids

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>What is a " left corner " audiogram?

>Just wondering.

>Thanks from Orlando

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[Guest guest]

Take a blank audiogram and draw a line making the left corner kind of a

triangle. Just a tiny bit of hearing in the lows, loss greater than 100-110

elsewhere. Basically very profoundly deaf.

Re: Widex Inteo hearing aids

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>What is a " left corner " audiogram?

>Just wondering.

>Thanks from Orlando

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>All messages posted to this list are private and confidential. Each post is

the intellectual property of the author and therefore subject to copyright

restrictions.

>

[Guest guest]

Take a blank audiogram and draw a line making the left corner kind of a

triangle. Just a tiny bit of hearing in the lows, loss greater than 100-110

elsewhere. Basically very profoundly deaf.

Re: Widex Inteo hearing aids

>

>What is a " left corner " audiogram?

>Just wondering.

>Thanks from Orlando

>

>

>

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>

>All messages posted to this list are private and confidential. Each post is

the intellectual property of the author and therefore subject to copyright

restrictions.

>

[Guest guest]

pcknott@... wrote:

> Take a blank audiogram and draw a line making the left corner kind of

> a triangle. Just a tiny bit of hearing in the lows, loss greater than

> 100-110 elsewhere. Basically very profoundly deaf.

>

Got it. Thanks .

from Orlando

[Guest guest]

pcknott@... wrote:

> Take a blank audiogram and draw a line making the left corner kind of

> a triangle. Just a tiny bit of hearing in the lows, loss greater than

> 100-110 elsewhere. Basically very profoundly deaf.

>

Got it. Thanks .

from Orlando

[Guest guest]

pcknott@... wrote:

> Take a blank audiogram and draw a line making the left corner kind of

> a triangle. Just a tiny bit of hearing in the lows, loss greater than

> 100-110 elsewhere. Basically very profoundly deaf.

>

Got it. Thanks .

from Orlando