Can long time hearing disability cause loose memory?

[neva]

After not having a HA very long time, 20 years, I realised that generally I dont listen exactly my environment, all I perceipt is actually just a sound howling, even when people are talking.

Worse, this causes a weak perception of words and sentences in my brain.
I mean when I am getting low volume from a person, words told me dont impact my understanding so deeply, and I am easily forgetting what they say to me after a while, but if the volume is high enough, and I got all things exactly, they really impact my understanding room in my brain as if it is hammering enough strong.

I wonder is it possible to effect memorisation process by hearing efficiency or amount? or do I have even amnesia?

[adgraham]

Originally Posted by neva

After not having a HA very long time, 20 years, I realised that generally I dont listen exactly my environment, all I perceipt is actually just a sound howling, even when people are talking.

Worse, this causes a weak perception of words and sentences in my brain.
I mean when I am getting low volume from a person, words told me dont impact my understanding so deeply, and I am easily forgetting what they say to me after a while, but if the volume is high enough, and I got all things exactly, they really impact my understanding room in my brain as if it is hammering enough strong.

I wonder is it possible to effect memorisation process by hearing efficiency or amount? or do I have even amnesia?

See a doctor, maybe an ear nose throat specialist first and ask him/her your questions. They should steer you in the right direction.

[xbulder]

Originally Posted by neva

After not having a HA very long time, 20 years, I realised that generally I dont listen exactly my environment, all I perceipt is actually just a sound howling, even when people are talking.

Worse, this causes a weak perception of words and sentences in my brain.
I mean when I am getting low volume from a person, words told me dont impact my understanding so deeply, and I am easily forgetting what they say to me after a while, but if the volume is high enough, and I got all things exactly, they really impact my understanding room in my brain as if it is hammering enough strong.

I wonder is it possible to effect memorisation process by hearing efficiency or amount? or do I have even amnesia?

i would seek medical help, sounds odd

[inmate23]

Audio processing disorder does. It proven. But I don't know about memory loss in deafness.

[fhjmom]

I attended a lecture by audiologist and hearing guru, Carol Flexor, a couple of weeks ago. The lecture I attended was mostly about the importance of developing auditory neural pathways in babies/young children by early amplification and language rich environments. She did mention though that adults with hearing loss should be amplified as soon as possible after a hearing loss is identified. She basically explained that the auditory processing centers in the brain operate on a 'use it or loose it' platform. If we were once hearing, but go with out stimulating all the auditory areas for a period of time, then the brain reallocates those areas for something else. I thought it was really interesting and made a lot of sense.

I also find myself working so hard to understand each individual word sometimes, that once a person completes a sentence, I have to stop for a minute and put it all together in my head to really get the meaning of what they are trying to say. Think of a child just learning to read. If they have to digest each individual word in a paragraph, bit by bit, when they get done reading the paragraph, they may have gotten all the words but won't be able to tell you what the meaning of the passage as a whole was about.

If it is really a problem, you may talk to your doctor and see if there are any audio verbal therapists or other type of therapists in your area that work with adults.

[neva]

fhjmom thank you for informing;

Exactly, even the delay is a so hard problem to me, recently I was kidding; I wish I had an HA that pre-records input and slowers this source and gets back to you, actually at this time there would be a dynamically changing delays

but as you said, exactly it is the issue that happens to me especially while listening english (my lang. is not english), every time I have to stop and permeate all that information, even mostly I perceive words after hearing nearly 3 seconds, as if something inside me is processing the knowledge but slowly and getting me back to release the information.
Sometimes I feel myself as a dumb because of understanding late.

What can audio verbal therapists give us for this problem? would they teach us listening? can I get back my lost areas in the brain?

[shelley]

An audi I saw mentioned the auditory processing thing to me and suggested that I read aloud for 15 minutes a day as one way to keep my auditory processing sharp.

I also started a program online, the Brain Fitness Classic through http://www.positscience.com/gaw/sem6/. This program is specifically designed to help develop the auditory processing speed, and from what I've seen, it does what a speech therapist would do. I did it for an hour a day for 40 days and saw definite benefits in my memory and concentration and ability to focus on words. I hadn't even realized how "lazy" and "sloppy" my hearing had gotten until I did this. I couldn't even focus for 10 seconds without my mind wandering to something else. I just wish an audi had said something to me years ago so I could have avoided deteriorating to this level. Now I'm going through the program a second time, continuing to work on my phoneme recognition, processing speed, etc.