Digital aid advice er stupidity?

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Hi all

The school system is providing with new digital hearing aids. These are

his first digital, vs digitally programmable. Now, the school audiologist, who

I consider to be incompetent and who has had minimal programming experience,

said she's going to program the aid and then give it to him to try at school.

First of all, I've never had an audiologist program a hearing aid without his

input regarding how he wants it to sound and the mean loudness comfort level.

suffers from recruitment and cannot turn the hearing aid as loud as his

hearing loss warrants because he finds it painful. Also, he doesn't like super

amplification of the highs which is where he has 70-90 db losses. He says that

makes speech sound robotic. He has never been able to be amplified according to

his loss. He has his own preferences. I'm just so sick of battling this woman

and this year, for the first year she's actually supportive of him in school,

that I want to make sure that I'm still correct in my opinion. Anyone else out

there have audiologists that just program the aid, and stick it in without any

feedback from the child? is 15 so he knows what he wants.