The document discusses the history and development of hearing aid technology. It notes that early hearing aids were large and noticeable, but that technology and motivated inventors have helped make hearing aids smaller and less visible over time. Major hearing aid companies like Phonak and Oticon were founded by people seeking to help loved ones with hearing loss. The document poses the hypothetical question of what if these pioneering individuals and companies had not existed - hearing aid technology may have developed 50 years later than it did.

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The Big What If
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Technology brought the
hearing aid into the
twenty-first century.
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Helen Keller never used a
hearing aid because she felt
they were cumbersome devices
that made others focus on her
disabilities.
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Taking that sentiment to heart,
many hearing aid companies
have strived to make the hearing
aid less noticeable.
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The newest BTE hearing aids
have smaller receivers, no large
battery packs or processors,
clear tubing and flesh colored
parts.
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Two major hearing aid companies,
Phonak and Oticon, were first
started because their owners were
motivated to make hearing devices
to help loved ones.
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Another company, Resound, is the
direct result of the desire to build
hearing aids that are better, faster,
smaller and easier to use.
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But what if none of the people who
started these companies had lived
or been motivated to do what they
did?
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Chances are hearing aid technology
would just have gotten off the
ground fifty years ago rather than
over a hundred.
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So many lives touch another,
and too often we forget that.
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