In-The-Ear (ITE) Style Transistor Hearing Aids—General InformationEarly In-The-Ear (ITE), sometimes referred to as At the Ear, hearing aids quickly followed the BTE hearing aid onto the market. The earliest ITE hearing aids were relatively large and protruded from the ear in such a way that they were quite visible. Many consisted of a modular device attached to a either a generic or a custom made ear mold. | | Click picture for larger view | | Example of an In-The-Ear (ITE) Transistor Hearing Aid Click on the "Transistor (Ear)" button (on the left), and then "In-the-Ear" and/or "In-the-Canal" to see the details of this and other In-the-Ear/In-the-Canal transistor hearing aids. | | | | |
There were four basic sizes of In-The-Ear hearing aids. Pictured at the right are the "big" full-shell hearing aid (left), mid-sized half-shell hearing aid, in-the canal hearing aid, and the tiny almost invisible completely-in-canal (CIC) hearing aid (right). ITE aids are suitable for mild, moderate and severe hearing losses today. | | Click picture for larger view | | Examples of a the Four Sizes of In-the-Ear Hearing Aids | |
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