Hearing Aid Education and Adaptation System
Hearing Aid Education and Adaptation System
This RCT will have two arms: A control group that receives the standard of care from
 audiologists and an experimental group that receives both the standard of care and the
 at-home use of the TELLYHealth intervention. Subjects in each group will complete
 questionnaires at enrollment, mid-study and at the end of the study.
HTM will develop the "TELLYHealth (tm) system" that will provide education on hearing aid use
 and maintenance. HTM will conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to quantify the
 benefits of TELLYHealth to patients and audiologists including: reductions in hearing
 handicap, improved knowledge of hearing aid handling, use and communications strategies; and
 improved audiologist aftercare. The investigators will recruit 80 subjects (half in each
 group) and each subject will participate in the study for 8-12 weeks.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  Speaks and reads English fluently

 -  Has mild (25-40 dB) to severe (70-95 dB) monaural sensorineural hearing loss

 -  Will be fitted with one or two hearing aids at the time of enrollment

 -  Owns a standard TV

 -  Has Internet access at home

 -  Has sufficient corrected vision to watch videos and read text on the TV and mobile
 device

 -  No signs of dementia

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  Lives with person who has enrolled in the study