Spotlight on: Spring Cleaning your Hearing Aids
There’s nothing more frustrating than technology that doesn’t work correctly – especially when it’s something you depend upon, like your hearing aids. So now that Spring is in the air and you are thinking about a spring clean for your home or your garden, how about giving that technology that you need to communicate a spring clean too?
Farewell Viki
After over 6 years, Viki has decided to move onto a new adventure, so will be leaving our team. Viki has been a terrific asset to Victorian Hearing, and will be missed by many of our clients with whom she has built up a great rapport over the years.
Lyric making the news again
Have you seen our editorial and adds in the Herald Sun newspapers recently? See what real Lyric wearers are saying about Lyric – the worlds first 100% invisible, 24/7 worn hearing aids – watch the video here.
Spotlight on Hearing Aid Batteries
Different batteries are based on different chemical reactions in order for them to provide power. Hearing aid batteries are most commonly Zinc-Air batteries. Advances in zinc-air chemistry and battery cell engineering make it possible to provide more consistent power in ever-shrinking cell sizes.
Rayovac, one of the largest manufacturers of zinc air batteries, recently stated that they believed zinc air batteries “would probably be the most widely used battery type in the world, surpassing even alkaline batteries in popularity, if not for one problem: “those pesky air holes”.
So what is the problem with those holes?
Victorian Hearing on Facebook!
Victorian Hearing is excited to announce that we are now on Facebook! We hope you like us!
Victorian Hearing announces partnership with Victorian Seniors Card
We are pleased to announce that we are now an official business partner with Victorian Seniors Card. This means that if you are a Victorian Seniors Card holder, you are eligible for discounts on our already competitively priced range of hearing aids
Website Bloopers
Many of the photo’s on our new website feature our staff here at Victorian Hearing. We had so much fun creating the photo’s for the new website – although some of us clearly had more fun than others! Check out our photo shoot bloopers for a giggle!!
Lyric 100% Invisible Hearing Aid
Lyric is the first extended wear hearing device that is 100% invisible. It is comfortably placed in the ear canal by a Lyric trained hearing professional and can be worn 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for up to 4 months at a time.
Victorian Hearing welcomes new audiologist
We are pleased to welcome Patrice Lockwood to our team. Patrice graduated from Macquarie University in 1995 and after realising Audiology was her passion, she returned to University to complete a Masters of Audiology in 1998. Patrice worked in the UK at the Neurology and Neurosurgery Hospital and Northampton Hospital, returned to Australia to a management role in Sydney before deciding to give up surfing before work every morning to relocate to Melbourne for a year or so…and that was 11 years ago!
