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Hearing aids are not perfect

Explains why hearing aids are not perfect. They help some people some of the time, but hearing aids also are limited.
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Why hearing aids fail (and what will make them better): Why hearing aids are frustratingly imperfect and continue to be a tough challenge for technology to solve.

This article explains why hearing aids do not fix your hearing. Hearing aids help some people some of the time, but hearing aids also are limited. Although this article is old (2011), most of the information is still true today. Hearing aid technology will continue to improve, but will also continue to have some limits.

Some of the text in this article is accessible for people using screen reading software. However, images do not use well-written alternate text to describe them for people who can see them and links may be confusing when using screen reading software.

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