We understand words when our brains connect --- the right sound with the right meaning. As we get older, our brains gradually lose the speed and accuracy to process sound. Sound begins to lose meaning. As sound loses meaning, words stop making sense. If our brains stop processing sound, we stop understanding words and hearing aids become useless. Left untreated, this leads to “word understanding deafness.”
Thankfully,
I found Auditory Aerobics®
KEY TO HEARING REHAB.
While hearing aids make sound louder, Auditory Aerobics® helps make the hearing system stronger. Auditory Aerobics® trains your hearing system to process sound more quickly and efficiently.
It is an activity that increases the amount of sound your hearing system can process effectively. The more sound your hearing system processes, the more clearly you hear.
Auditory Aerobics® involves making new meaning from Wordplay. Wordplay is a novel use of words and their multiple meanings. In doing this, new connections form between sound and words.The brain reinforces these connections to make them stronger. This is called Hebbian learning.
These stronger connections strengthen your hearing system, making it stronger and much more efficient. A strong hearing system helps you understand words faster and better. It helps you sharpen your hearing and keep it sharp, longer.
UNDERSTAND MORE
A strong hearing system helps insure that the brain will connect the right sound with the right word to help you hear at your best.