Widex Inteo hearing aids

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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.