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Originally Posted by Hear Again
If this is true, how come I haven't been able to understand speech with HAs since 1995? I wore my aids 16 hours/day. According to all of my former HA audis (3 in 20+ years), I was always very good at using my residual hearing.
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Your hearing loss is much worse than mine and you weren't able to benefit from HAs as much as I am. You heard at 60db before you got CIs. I hear better than 30db. I have turned the volume on my HAs way down just to see what difference it makes and I lost my ability to hear speech and most environmental sounds.
To be honest, my audiologist was actually surprised I am doing this well but he did encourage me to keep training. If I had less residual hearing, no amount of training will get me above a certain point since id hear only vowels, it would be nearly useless. I am still able to hear alot of consonents so therefore I can still understand some speech.