Hearing Aids: Beware and Be Wise!
Learn how to find the right hearing aid for you!
Join Bonnie O'Leary, Outreach Manager and Certified Peer Mentor from the Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons (NVRC) for an objective presentation about hearing aids from the consumers' perspective. Bonnie O'Leary is a late-deafened adult and has been wearing hearing aids for 25 years. She will bring a personal amplifier to demo which can be useful with (or without!) hearing aids.
Included in this program will be:
- Information about types and causes of hearing loss
- Information about the hearing evaluation
- How to interpret an audiogram
- Styles and types of hearing aids
- OTC vs. prescription hearing aids and who is a candidate
- Useful apps that can be helpful.
REGISTRATION RECOMMENDED. Seating is limited and first-come, first seated.
For more information, contact Lib-CentralOperations@arlingtonva.us.
- Date:
- Monday, March 30, 2026
- Time:
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Location:
- Bluemont Room
- Library:
- Central Library
- Audience:
- Events for Adults Good for Adults Age 55+
- Categories:
- Community Resources Health, Wellness & Food
- Calendar:
- Arlington Public Library
NVRC is a non-profit and no sales are ever involved. The NVRC serves a diverse range of people, including the deaf, deaf-blind, late-deafened, hard of hearing, parents with deaf and hard of hearing children, children of deaf and hard of hearing parents, educators, sign language teachers and students, hearing aid users, people with cochlear implants, people with tinnitus, and people with auditory processing disorders.