Local hearing care
Bedford patients often arrive having read about hearing aids for a year first. What the test adds is which sounds you are actually missing, and that is frequently not what people assume from the reading. Bring the notes. The audiologist will go through them with you.
Practical appointment planning
Bedford patients drive to the Somers office at 325 NY 100 for hearing tests, hearing aid selection, tinnitus appointments, and custom earplugs.
Somers is the closer of the two offices, on (914) 556-6720. It takes appointments Monday through Wednesday and on Friday morning, and it is closed Thursdays. Harrison is open five days if the week only leaves you a Thursday.
Bring notes about where hearing feels hardest — restaurants, phone calls, family conversations, commuting, outdoor activity, tinnitus, or hearing aid comfort — so the visit can focus on the situations that matter most.
Bedford patients often arrive having read about hearing aids for a year first. What the test adds is which sounds you are actually missing, and that is frequently not what people assume from the reading. Bring the notes. The audiologist will go through them with you.
Group rooms with a hard floor and a soft speaker are the hardest ordinary listening there is. Speech-in-noise testing measures it directly. Ask for that result in plain words rather than a number on a chart, because the useful answer is whether the room will be manageable and what would make it better.
Wind and distance take the top of speech off before it reaches you. Hearing aids have limits outdoors that nobody selling them enjoys mentioning, and knowing them ahead of time saves a disappointing first week. If most of your conversation happens on a trail or across a paddock, say so before the fitting rather than after.
Equipment that runs for an hour at a time sits above the level where protection matters, and the exposure repeats all season. Custom plugs are molded from an impression taken in the office and still let a shout or an engine note through, which is why they stay in. Ringing that outlasts the work belongs in a tinnitus appointment.
High ceilings and hard floors make a room reverberant, and reverberation smears speech in a way that raising the volume cannot repair. It is why a dinner in a handsome room can be harder than one in a plain one. A microphone placed near the person talking does more than any setting will.
Expertise & trust
Patients near Bedford, NY are seen at our Somers, NY office at 325 NY 100, Somers, NY 10589. Every hearing evaluation and hearing aid fitting is performed by a New York State–licensed Doctor of Audiology (Au.D.) on our team — the same clinicians who provide diagnostic testing, real-ear verification, tinnitus care, and follow-up across Westchester. Where Bedford, NY is a service area rather than a physical office, we say so plainly and point you to the nearest location.
Partner, Doctor of Audiology
Au.D., Vanderbilt University School of Medicine · Tinnitus-certified (CH-TM) · musician-focused care
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Au.D., Salus University · Lyric invisible extended-wear devices · Tinnitus management (CH-TM)
View profile: Dr. Kira Savin, Au.D.Lead Audiologist, Doctor of Audiology
Au.D., Vanderbilt · cochlear implants, cerumen removal & ASL · White Plains native
View profile: Dr. Caitlin Dold, Au.D.Diagnostic hearing evaluations that help identify hearing needs and next steps.
Personalized hearing aid selection, fitting, verification, and follow-up care.
Patient-centered tinnitus support and management options.
Custom hearing protection for musicians, work, recreation, and daily life.
Troubleshooting, cleaning, adjustment, and repair support for hearing aids.
Somers, at 325 NY 100, on (914) 556-6720. It takes appointments Monday through Wednesday and on Friday morning and is closed Thursdays. Harrison, on (914) 949-0034, is open five weekdays if the only day your week leaves you is a Thursday.
It tells you which frequencies you have lost and how well you separate speech from noise, and those two results decide almost everything that follows. Most of what is written about hearing aids is about features. What determines whether a given device helps you is your own audiogram and your speech-in-noise score. Bring your notes and they will be gone through against the results.
Less well than indoors, and it is better to know that beforehand. Microphones are a few millimetres across and sit at your ear, so past a certain distance they collect wind and space rather than voice. Wind handling differs a lot between models. For conversation that regularly happens at a distance, a remote microphone is the honest answer rather than a more expensive hearing aid.
If you live in or near Bedford, NY, call Audiology Associates of Westchester to confirm appointment availability and the best office for your needs.