Operation Manual

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Tips for Better Communication
Your hearing care professional will recommend an
appropriate schedule to help you adapt to your
new hearing system. It will take practice, time and
patience for your brain to adapt to the new sounds
thatyourhearingsystemprovides.Hearingisonly
part of how we share thoughts, ideas and feelings.
Reading lips, facial expressions and gestures
can help the learning process and add to what
amplification alone may miss.
Please review the following simple
communication tips:
For You
•Moveclosertoandlookatthespeaker
• Sitface-to-faceinaquietroom
• Trydifferentlocationstondthebestplace
to listen
• Minimizedistractions
• Backgroundnoisesmaybefrustratingatrst;
remember, you have not heard them for a while