Royal South Hants Hospital and Audiology Outstations
Audiology & Hearing Therapy, Royal South Hants Hospital, Brintons Terrace, Southampton, SO14 0YG
Tel: 023 8082 5124; Minicom: 023 8082 5436; Fax: 023 8082 5085
Your hearing aid is fully automatic and will make its own adjustments to
suit your environment. However, you have the option, if you wish, of
making your own adjustments using the following manual controls:
Volume wheel
When you turn the hearing aid on, it should automatically go to a volume
level which is comfortable for you. It may take a few days for the hearing
aid to ‘learn’ what this level is.
You can alter the volume by rolling the volume wheel up (to make the aid
louder) or down (to make it quieter). If you try to move the hearing aid
beyond the loudest or quietest level it can provide, it will beep to tell you
that it is at the edge of its volume range and cannot be altered any further.
Programme button
Your hearing aid has up to 3 different programmes, as follows:
Programme Description
1
(1 beep)
General programme adapting itself to most situations
The hearing aid automatically goes to Programme 1 every time you switch
it off and then on again. If we have added other programmes and you
want to access them, you can do this by pressing the programme button
briefly, but only after the aid is turned on.
e2e
If you have a Reflex hearing aid in each ear, they will automatically
communicate with each other to help provide you with balanced hearing.
For example, if you manually increase the volume on one hearing aid, the
other one will increase its volume as well.
Data Logging
It is important to us that your hearing aid sounds right. The hearing aid
stores information such as how long you have it turned on per day, what
settings you have it on and what type of sound environments you are in.
This helps us to identify adjustments we may need to make to the aid, and
also assists us in giving you the best possible advice on using the aid.
