Happy New Year 2018 to dearest readers and clients!
Hopefully it is not too late to wish you all a joyous and successful year
ahead. I am pretty sure most of us have prepared ourselves for the New Year
with a long list of 2018 resolution. For parents with school-aged children, it
must be exciting preparing your children mentally and physically for the new
term. While for working individuals, you must have prepared yourself for new
goals as an employee. Prepare. Prepare. Prepare. Notice how many times the
word PREPARE appears in the above paragraph? Indeed preparation is an important
aspect in our daily life.
So as a start for 2018, I would like to share a simple
topic but can greatly contribute to a successful audiologist appointment. Let’s
have a look at the tips to prepare yourselves to meet your audiologist:
1. PRE BOOK YOUR APPOINTMENT
Booking your appointment in advance will
keep you from the hassle of waiting when you
arrived at the centre. You surely do
not want to wake up and arrive very early but ended up
waiting for an hour or two because of
the long list of clients who had pre booked their
sessions. This is especially true
when you plan for an appointment for your little kids.
To ensure you have a smooth day, make
a call or send an email to your preferred audiology
centre to book a session which best
suits to your time.
With that, you can make the most of
your time during the session as well as for the rest of
the day after your session ends.
2. LIST DOWN YOUR CONCERN, SYMPTOMS, MEDICAL HISTORY AND
LIFESTYLE
It is a standard procedure in any
audiologist appointment to ask you questions at the
beginning of the session. So do not
get panic when you are given a set of
questionnaire for you to fill in.
Instead, few days before your
appointment, take a moment to think about
your condition and concern,
medical history and lifestyle or
any simple details that you
think are related to your reason for
seeing an audiologist at the first place. If you are not
good at memorizing (wait, that’s me),
write down all those information on
a piece of paper.
All your input will significantly
help the audiologist to determine suitable assessments and
management for you.
3. BRING RELATED DOCUMENTS
If you have any related documents (if
you think it is related to your current audiology
condition) such as referral letters
or your previous hearing assessments report, bring it
together with you. This could give
some idea or info to your audiologist to the current
condition you have.
4. DO YOUR RESEARCH
Prepare yourself by doing simple reading on your condition either
you are experiencing
hearing loss, tinnitus or balance
problem or if you decides to buy hearing aids.
Get yourself exposed to some of the
terminology so that you won’t be totally clueless during
your first visit. This can help you
to understand the audiologist explanation easier and save
you some time too. For a start, you
can read about hearing loss at this link:
5. LIST DOWN QUESTIONS
Remember the time you went for your
first dentist appointment? Or the first time
you met your future in laws? Or maybe
the first time you went on a date? Do you have any
regrets after leaving for not asking
questions or doing things that you have set in mind earlier
on? Exactly, this can also happen to
you during your audiologist appointment and surely it
can happen to anyone. Especially if
this is your first time to see an audiologist,
you can get a bit overwhelm with the
new inputs provided to you.
Keep calm and make sure you write down your questions before the
appointment day. Never ever think
that a question is too simple or ridiculous to be asked.
Never underestimate the power of
asking.
6. BRING A FAMILY MEMBER OR FRIENDS
If you are not confident to go alone,
bring a family member or a friend to your appointment.
If it is your parents or husband or
wife who is scheduled for the appointment, take time to
accompany them. Having someone
accompanying you can be a great of help as they might
have questions which you might have
not think about or they can take notes on important
information that you might have
missed. Two heads is always better than one :)
With all these tips, I hope you get to make the most
out of your visit to your preferred audiology centre. Remember to always
prepare beforehand and if you are in doubt, give a call to your chosen
audiology centre. There will always someone to help you.
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best
today.”
― H.J. Brown
We Hear You.
Written by,
Tasnim Hazizan
Audiologist & Product specialist
Eartistic Hearing & Balance Centre
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