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A common misconception is that if a person has a hearing loss, they don’t hear much at all.  They are practically without any hearing – they are deaf.

This is not the case!  Hearing loss can occur at varying degrees, deteriorating gradually over time.  Because of the structure of the cochlea (organ of hearing), a greater number of people will lose their high pitched hearing first.

When a person develops such a loss, they may still hear deeper tones (such as footsteps on the floor, knocking on a door, most male voices) fairly well/normally, leading the person to believe that they still hear well.  However, even a very slight change to the region of the cochlear that processes high pitched sounds may mean that a person no longer hears sounds like ‘f’, ‘s’, ‘th’, or with slightly more deterioration ‘k’, ‘sh’.

If you hear someone saying “I can hear, but people mumble or don’t speak clearly anymore”, or “I can hear, but just not clearly when I’m in noise”, this more than likely means the person has either developed, or is developing, a high-pitched hearing loss.

The reason a person might experience this loss of clarity or feeling that people mumble is because these consonant sounds usually begin and end words, thus removing important pieces of the conversation.  So even a mild high-pitched hearing loss can have quite an impact on a person’s ability to hear and in turn communicate effectively in day to day life.

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