When you hear better, you live better. Let smart hearing aids do all the work.

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When you hear better, you live better. Let smart hearing aids do all the work.

schedule a free consultation

Hearing is one of our primary senses.

Maintaining our best health and well-being requires periodic attention to our sense of hearing all through our lives. It doesn’t have to consume us, but a regular hearing test, habitual use of hearing protection, and treatment for hearing loss are all important ways to maintain our best health and well-being throughout our lives.

Focus Hearing is one of the premier hearing healthcare and audiology practices in the Kansas City area. We bring a broad range of solutions to any hearing-related issues and are committed to offering the best in protection and treatment for patients of all needs.

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State-of-the-Art Solutions for Hearing Loss

Hearing loss brings a lot of unwelcome changes to our lives. At Focus Hearing, we understand that everyone is different, and we take an individual approach to find the best solution for your particular hearing loss and lifestyle. Whatever matters most to you, we’ll help you find a way to keep hearing loss from interfering.

Focus Hearing employs experienced, licensed hearing instrument specialists and audiologists. We get to the bottom of why you’re having hearing issues, so we’re sure to find the most appropriate treatment for your situation. Hearing care should not be about changing your life to accommodate your hearing instruments, but finding the right hearing instruments to accommodate your lifestyle. We work with each of our patients to determine the best course of treatment for the things that matter most to them.

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Even mild hearing loss causes us to change the way we relate to the world around us. Have you noticed yourself getting tired earlier in social situations? Earlier social fatigue is a major indicator of hearing loss. Especially in larger groups and when background noise is louder, hearing loss can be exhausting! Treating hearing loss helps you stay tuned in to the people around you for longer, and to enjoy your time with them much more.

Mild hearing loss can also contribute to memory issues. While evidence for this is anecdotal, those with untreated mild hearing loss are indeed much more likely to report having memory issues than those with normal hearing or who wear hearing aids. This is likely because the hearing center in our brain is closely tied to short-term memory. When we have to work harder with other parts of our brain to understand what is being said, it is also harder to commit that understanding to memory!

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As hearing loss progresses, it is tied to other unfortunate outcomes like headaches, depression, anxiety, social isolation, and even earlier onset of cognitive decline and dementia. The World Health Organization has named untreated hearing loss as the #1 modifiable risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, ahead of 11 others.

Don’t ignore your hearing loss! At Focus Hearing, we’ll work with you to find the best solution to treat your hearing loss so you can continue to enjoy life as you always have. We’re committed to finding the treatment that best fits your lifestyle!

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Comprehensive Hearing Tests

Focus Hearing offers comprehensive hearing tests to people of all ages. Regular hearing testing is an important way to maintain your best hearing ability over time. Rather than waiting until hearing loss becomes unavoidably noticeable, regular hearing testing can help you throughout your life to improve your methods of hearing protection and avoid unnecessary hearing loss.

The Better Hearing Institute, a non-profit organization, recommends getting a hearing test once every decade until age 50, and once every three years after that. Those in higher-risk professions or with a higher risk of hearing loss due to their medical history should be tested even more frequently.

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When should you get a hearing test?

  • If you have not been tested in the last 10 years.
  • If you work around loud sounds or spend a lot of recreational time around loud sounds, you should be tested each year.
  • Has someone else suggested you might have hearing loss? It’s usually another person who first points out that we’re having hearing issues.
  • Do you frequently ask people to repeat themselves?
  • Is it difficult to focus on speech in noisy environments?
  • Is it hard to hear people on the telephone?
  • Do other people frequently ask you to turn down the music or the television?
  • Are you noticing tinnitus or “ringing in the ears?”
Whether you think you might be having hearing issues, or you’re simply due for a hearing test, Focus Hearing can help empower you with a better understanding of your hearing health over time.
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Lisa Lauver
Lisa Lauver
2023-05-29
The doctors are great. They made my Mom feel comfortable and explained insurance coverage up front so no surprises
James Hester
James Hester
2023-02-23
This is a great audiologist office to work with. VERY courteous and professional AND it seems they are approach audiology from a medical perspective and someone trying to sell you expensive hearing aids. HIGHLY RECOMMEND Focused Hearing!
Derek Shea
Derek Shea
2023-02-16
I have to complement the people that work at focus hearing. I am not even a patient there and they have helped me many times with parts for my hearing aids and are the nicest folks I’ve ever dealt with in a retail situation. I wish I knew the receptionist name, but she is so nice and so cordial when I come in. I will continue to use her and focus hearing as my main place that I buy parts for my hearing aids although I did not even get them from focus they continue to be nice and give me great service and great deals on the stuff that I
Brian Lang
Brian Lang
2023-01-04
Always very helpful. The people there are awesome!
Leona Daniels
Leona Daniels
2022-08-31
I am so delighted that I have found focus hearing. The entire staff is remarkable, accommodating, and caring. Their followup is amazing. I would highly recommended anyone consider them for their hearing needs.
William Adams
William Adams
2022-07-29
Put simply, Shannon is the best audiologist I've ever had, and as a 72-year old with moderate hearing loss who plays piano and appreciates high-quality music, I've seen more than a few, including those affiliated with ENTs. If you need hearing aids, or an assessment of whether you could benefit from them, you need look no further. She performed hearing tests for me that I had never had, and was able to tune settings to a level of hearing well beyond what prior audiologists and ENTs had been able to achieve. They have an extensive range of makes/models to choose from to match budgets and features sought, and with Shannon at the helm, you can't go wrong.
Leonard Fausset
Leonard Fausset
2022-07-01
Once again, Annie, Shannon, Michael, they are the best. Awesome people to work with, and I am so grateful to be able to hear so well. Not only have they provided the best product but the service they have given me is just outstanding. They've got a customer for life with me. Those who I have referred to them, are just as pleased as I have been. Thank you Annie, Leonard Fausset
Joshua Ardery
Joshua Ardery
2022-04-06
I had a great experience and love my hearing aids. I missed some appointments and they were still very flexible with me and made sure to get me in. also helped me to get the best price possible for what I needed which I appreciated.