About Us
Your Hearing Illuminated
If you have never visited a hearing care professional, you probably don’t realize what to expect. You are in for a pleasant experience that is interesting, informative, and a great start on your path to better hearing. You should feel at ease during this visit because you have taken an important step and have started to explore answers and solutions to your hearing needs.
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Your sense of hearing is a vital link to your world – a source of pleasure, information and communication. A hearing assessment by a qualified hearing care professional is an important step in learning more about your hearing capabilities. If you have a hearing loss, there is something can do to take control of the situation. Hearing loss should not get in the way of enjoy your life.
The Hearing Assessment
Your hearing care professional will discuss your hearing history to understand what factors have influenced your hearing, and also to get more information on your personal hearing needs:
- How you think you are doing in different situations.
- What you are doing to deal with hearing issues in your everyday life.
The Hearing Evaluation Audiogram
Your hearing care professional will conduct a thorough assessment of your hearing in a sound controlled setting, usually a sound booth or quiet room. While wearing an earphone on each ear, you will listen to quiet sounds an indicate when you hear each one by pressing a button or raising your hand. You may be asked to repeat words. The instructions will be clear, and the test wil be as brief as possible to obtain the necessary information. The test is comfortable. All you have to do is listen and respond.
The sounds you hear vary in pitch from a deep bass to a high treble, measured on a “frequency scale” from 250 to 8000Hz. This range is the most important for hearing of everyday sounds and speech. Lower pitched bass sounds have a lower number on the scale and higher pitched, treble sounds have a higher number. The volume of each sound is adjusted until the softest level for each sound is detected. This level is called your “threshold.”
Next Steps
Your hearing care professional will interpret the results of your hearing evaluation and explain them to you clearly. If you have a hearing loss, hearing instruments may be recommended. Fortunately, hearing instrument can help most people and today’s choices are easy to try, often, right in the office, or in your own home. People who use hearing instruments report an improved quality of life, and a new dimension in hearing and belonging.
Our Practice
At Family Hearing Center, we are committed to providing you the absolute best care for your hearing health possible. With our decades of experience and expertise, we can show you how being able to hear properly will have a positive impact in multiple facets of everyday life.
We strive for excellence and our reviews reflect this. We treat our patients like family because they entrust us with the care of a SENSE- and we only have five of them. We operate state-of-the-art technology in our pristine offices; to be the best, we must utilize the best resources available. Know that you and your loved ones are in good hands.
We have a wide array of diagnostic services to evaluate your hearing. From this assessment, we make a recommendation on how to improve your hearing, protect your hearing, manage your tinnitus and/or enhance your enjoyment of sound. From beginning to end you can count on us to make sure your individual needs are met and that ultimately the quality of your life is improved.
I came here in 2016 or 2017 because my husband told me to get my hearing checked. The gentleman working was very nice and the test was quick and painless. As it turned out, my hearing was near perfect. He said he was not authorized to make a diagnosis, but quite often when the spouse was saying to get your hearing checked and your hearing test was good, it was often due to ADHD. I kind of put that aside, and was just grateful that I didn't need hearing aides. Fast forward to early 2025 and I had not been having good results with my psych meds controlling my anxiety for a while. My prescriber separated from the practice and I was assigned to someone else. After 3 visits with her she said she thought I have ADHD. We started treating that and my anxiety went away as did my husband needing to repeat things several times before I hear him. This guy called it almost 10 years ago and I should have followed up with my psych person then, I could have been feeling better much sooner!
Jamie ButterweckNovember 10, 2025