How do I set the volume control?

[Desmo]

How do you set the volume control, on HA's that have them, to the appropriate level?

Do you find a volume control to be a necessity? The Hearing Aid's I have currently don't have volume controls and it's not something I used on my old HA's.
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[Digital Hearing Care]

Hi Desmo, most of the hearing aids we supply, unless specifically asked for by the client, we tend not to include a volume control. The technology available today pretty much negates the need for a volume control, even for entry level technology. Any hearing aid audiologist worth their salt should be able to program your hearing aids to a level where you just leave them to do what they need to do to enable you to hear well....
The exception tends to be with profound hearing loss where a good result is harder to achieve, then we quite often find the client prefers a bit of manual adjustment...
If a volume control is present we would tend to set the mid point at which the hearing aid starts up to be at an appropriate level so in most cases the client should not need to stray from this setting anyway.
Hope this helps
Regards

Paul

[mackwilson755]

listen only that much that you ears can hear.

[jjanderton]

Most of the hearing aids have got sweep action for volume control, it is very easy one just touch your hearing aid with a finger and sweep the tiny volume regulator according to your adjustment. That's it. But it might be so that the different companies hearing aids may have different option for it.