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POWERFUL PERSPECTIVES

How we experience the world depends a lot on our perspective. Sometimes, changing our perspective changes our interpretation of the situation. Other times, changing our perspective makes the impossible seem possible. With the Supremia Super Power BTE, we at Bernafon strive to offer people with severe to profound hearing losses a new perspective in hearing. Supremia’s contemporary design, strong performance, and sophisticated features together have the power to inspire and support people every day. Complementary accessories also increase the possibilities for successful communication in many...

SUPREMIA SUPER POWER BTE Offer a New Perspective People with a severe to profound hearing loss often experience more challenges than the average hearing-impaired person. They typically have a reduced dynamic range. They require extra gain, but their loudness discomfort levels can be quickly reached or exceeded. There is a large variability in speech perception. They normally have poor speech discrimination in noise and even in quiet. What your clients are asking for is a powerful hearing aid which can help them to overcome their hearing limitations as much as possible. Power is one core...

SUPREMIA SUPER POWER BTE

A New Option for Speech Understanding People with severe to profound degrees of hearing loss are more likely to have problems understanding speech. They often have poor speech discrimination in quiet, and background noise further complicates the problem. Additionally, speech performance can vary widely between clients. It has been observed that speech scores can range from 10% to 100% for clients with similar hearing losses (Souza, 2009). Speech intelligibility cannot be predicted by the hearing thresholds. When listening in noise, severe to profound hearingimpaired clients require a...

With Speech Cue Priority™, Bernafon offers two different amplification strategies: Phoneme Priority and Envelope Priority. The goal of this amplification strategy is to maximize the loudness contrast between phonemes. Soft sounds remain soft in contrast to loud sounds. Only small variations in gain are applied and Envelope Priority preserves the crucial speech envelope cues (see Figure 2). Phoneme Priority’s amplification algorithm strives to make all parts of the speech signal audible. For people with a milder hearing loss, this strategy is beneficial since they still have the ability to...

FREQUENCY COMPOSITION™ Changing Ideas of What’s Possible Original Signal (unamplied) Duplicate High-Frequency Signal (source) Compress High-Frequency Signal HF Lower High-Frequency Signal (destination) Figure 3: Working principle of Bernafon’s Frequency Composition™ For people with a severe to profound hearing loss, it is usually a special challenge to hear high-frequency sounds. Without sufficient high-frequency audibility, clients miss out on important speech cues. This can lead to clients confusing words, not hearing words correctly, or finding it hard to communicate even in quiet...

Strong Features Bring Clear Benefits A powerful hearing aid requires strong features that will make a big difference for your clients in terms of speech understanding, listening comfort, and convenience. Directionality People with a severe to profound hearing loss normally have poor speech discrimination and require a higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). They often have difficulty separating two signals which reduces their ability to recognize speech in the presence of noise. Directional microphones are the most important feature needed to improve the SNR for increased intelligibility of...

Adaptive Feedback Canceller Plus (AFC Plus) Acoustic feedback has been a challenge as long as there have been hearing aids. More so when talking about a Super Power fitting, because of the high amplification levels which are required. Bernafon’s proven AFC Plus feedback cancellation system has been designed to detect and remove acoustic feedback signals immediately. Be it when the feedback path is static (as it often is during the instrument fitting) or when the feedback path changes suddenly (as when your client changes the volume), AFC Plus is designed to react effectively. VC Step Size...

POWERFUL PERSPECTIVES

From A Child’s Perspective Supremia also offers a new perspective in hearing to the smallest among us. Children discover, experience, and learn every day. Their lives are full of big and small events, and Supremia can give them the power to actively participate in any occasion. Sounds are important to all of us, but for children they are indispensable for their auditory and cognitive development. Supremia is designed to assist children in every stage of their lives. In order to do so properly, Supremia can be equipped with a range of components dedicated to the pediatric population. LED...

Turn a Standard Fitting Session into an Efficient One For good speech and language development, children need as much access to speech information as possible. Additionally, special consideration should be given to pediatric fittings to avoid over-amplification. Oasis supports pediatric fittings by offering the DSL 5.0 Child fitting rationale. In addition to the DSL 5.0 Child, Oasis can apply measured Real Ear to Coupler Difference (RECD) values and Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) thresholds when determining fitting targets. DSL 5.0 Child This fitting rationale is specifically designed...

WIRELESS ACCESSORIES Open Up the Full Power of Supremia People with a severe to profound hearing loss can especially benefit from accessories that pair with their hearing aids. Sounds which are streamed directly into their ears can become even more clear and understandable. Furthermore, accessories can help to reduce the listening fatigue in very challenging hearing environments. SoundGate App Bernafon has a wide range of wireless connectivity accessories which brings added value to your clients. With the Bernafon SoundGate App, it is possible for your clients to manipulate their hearing...