Your Hearing Could be Affecting Your Job The way you hear can have a huge impact on your effectiveness in the workplace.
Your Hearing Could be Affecting Your Job: Avada Hearing Care Centers Offering Free Hearing Screenings for Better Hearing and Speech Month
Louisville, KY-May 2009
It is a strong statement: "Your Hearing Could be Affecting Your Job." But in this economy, it is a serious matter. The way you hear can have a huge impact on your effectiveness in the workplace. In the tough economic times we are facing, Americans are working harder than ever to hang on to their jobs. A hearing loss can be an impediment to job performance, which in this climate, could be a danger to job security. Sergei Kochkin, PHD, Executive Director of the Better Hearing Institute says, "Unaddressed hearing loss has a negative impact on overall job effectiveness, opportunity for promotion, and even lifelong earning power. Now, more than ever, people in the workforce need to put their best foot forward and address untreated hearing loss. Currently, more than 24 million people in the United States who say they have hearing loss don't have hearing aids."
If you suspect a loss, this is a critical time to take the steps towards improving your hearing. For the entire month of May, Avada Hearing Care Centers, operating subsidiary of Hearing Healthcare Management, Inc, (HHM), is offering free hearing screenings to provide area citizens the tools to help improve their hearing and quality of life.
Steve Barlow, Chief Executive Officer of Avada Hearing Care Centers stresses the importance of telling anyone you care about to take care of their hearing, "This country and our community must stop treating hearing loss as a minor problem. Research shows that when people cannot hear properly, they make less money and their inability to hear can disrupt family life," said Barlow. "The good news is that hearing loss can easily be diagnosed and for most people, there are solutions in the form of digital and programmable hearing instruments, many of which are not visible.
Symptoms of hearing loss include not being able to understand well in a crowded room or restaurant, having to ask friends to repeat what they are saying, or not being able to hear sounds that others seem to be able to hear. Studies conducted by the Better Hearing Institute (BHI), a not-for-profit organization that educates the public about the neglected problem of hearing loss and what can be done about it, have found that people with untreated hearing loss experience a lower quality of life then people with normal hearing or people who use hearing instruments.
Everyone over the age of 55 should have annual hearing screenings. Avada Hearing Care Centers offers free hearing screenings for those interested. Nationwide, Avada Hearing Care Centers' mission has always been to serve the hearing impaired with the highest degree of professionalism, technology and service available. Avada operates more than 280 hearing care centers nationwide. For more information visit www.avada.com.
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