The holiday season is all about family, fun, and cold weather get-togethers. For us at REM, the next few months are also about seasonal hearing health tips. Coming up in December and January, we’re ...Read More
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The Problem with Earwax
Did you know that earwax increases — and thickens — with age? That as you get older, it can accumulate, get impacted, and cause problems with everything from hearing to balance? First things first...Read More
Attention and Hearing
Why isn’t my child paying attention? Why is she getting frustrated listening in class? How come he isn’t following directions? As any parent will tell you, these are questions with no easy answers...Read More
Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease
Hearing loss doesn’t always have to be from noise. Exposure to high levels of sound over an extended period of time may be a leading cause, but there are many others. Aging, genetics, and head injur...Read More
The Dog Who Helped Her Hear
Whenever the doorbell rang, Spike ran up to Beverly, barking, bothering her, until she answered the door. Every morning, after hearing the alarm, Spike woke her up, putting his paw on her arm. At rest...Read More
TBI and Hearing Loss
Brain Injury Symptoms The past couple of years have seen a rise in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) awareness, perhaps due to their prevalence in both professional and junior-league sports. But did you kn...Read More
Seeing Movies with Hearing Loss
It’s movie time, with or without hearing loss. With October’s scary flicks and winter’s Oscar® contenders on the horizon, fall is the perfect time to find yourself at the theater. For those wor...Read More
National Audiology Awareness Month
October is National Audiology Awareness Month. What does that mean? What can you do? How can you help spread awareness? Do a Google search, and you’ll find half a dozen calls to action from a variet...Read More
ARIA Therapy
If your child has a condition known as amblyaudia — a disorder that prohibits the ability of the brain to process competing information from ear-to-ear — he or she might need a type of dichotic th...Read More
Speech and Language Development
Speech and language development is every parent’s first concern. How your child receives, processes, and expresses information can be a huge determining factor affecting the rest of his or her life....Read More