Today's Hearing

09/10/2026

09/09/2026

To keep the good news coming, the puzzle table has been completed! Stop by at your next appointment to help us complete the new cozy fall scene 🍁🏰

09/08/2026

Last Thursday Today's Hearing staff celebrated the start of college football season by sporting our favorite teams t-shirts! 🏈📣We hope everyone enjoyed their Labor Day weekend, and got to cheer on a team of their own.

09/03/2026

Reminder!!

09/02/2026

Communication with family and friends can be difficult, and even a little frustrating when dealing with a hearing loss. Today’s Hearing would like to share some tips that you can send with those that are closest to you, to make communication a better experience for everyone.

“Let Me Tell You About Communication Strategies"

When chatting with someone with a hearing loss..

-Face them directly. It is helpful to someone who is hard of hearing to be able to read your lips and body language when having a conversation. Sometimes our brains use these extra clues to fill in the gaps of what our ears may be missing.

-Minimize background noise. Turn off, or mute the television when you are ready to have a conversation. Doing dishes or even having a vent in the background can make it very hard for someone who is hard of hearing to be able to pick up on all of the words in a conversation.

-Speak clearly. Loudness isn’t always the solution to helping someone who is hard of hearing to understand you. Slowing down your speech and enunciating each word is more helpful than simply speaking loudly.

-Be patient. Your loved ones with hearing loss are trying their best! Repeating yourself can be frustrating, but using these tips and setting up the conversation for success can make communication a pleasant experience for everyone!

08/25/2026

It's that time of the week! This week's "Let Me Tell You Something Tuesday" is about a staff member near and dear to our hearts.

"Let Me Tell You How I Met Rachel!"

It was 2001 at Taylor High School. I had just started my freshman year, and my volleyball coach was introducing me to my fellow managers. And there stood Rachel! She was the volleyball manager for the varsity team and was going to show me around.

Little did I know that day that I was meeting my future best friend.

From that day on, Rachel and I were inseparable. One of our favorite things to do was drive around the new neighborhoods being built—Cinco Ranch, at the time—and pick up street reflectors that had popped off the road. By the time we graduated, we each had quite a stash! Looking back, I'm not sure what we thought we were going to do with them, but we sure had fun collecting them.

We both decided to attend Texas Tech and were even lucky enough to be roommates one of those years. After college, we both moved back home to Katy. Rachel graduated with her undergraduate degree in Early Childhood Education in 2006, and I graduated with my degree in Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management in 2008.

We were each other's maid of honor in our 2008 weddings—hers in September and mine in October. As we settled into our new jobs and married lives, we realized that if we weren't intentional about making time for each other, life could easily get in the way. So, we started our Taco Tuesday tradition. Every week, no matter how busy we were, we made sure we got to see each other at least once.
Rachel was a busy teacher at our alma mater, Nottingham Country Elementary, and I was working 60-plus hours a week at Luby's. We also enjoyed house hunting together and both found our first homes in 2009.

After I left Luby's and started working at Today's Hearing in 2009, I would show up at NCE every Friday after school to help Rachel clean up her classroom and get ready for the next week. Of course, that was typically followed by a double date, which often included a margarita or two.

Rachel taught at Nottingham Country Elementary for 15 years. She was one of those teachers who gave her students EVERYTHING. It wasn't uncommon for her to spend 10–12 hours at school most days. She poured her heart and soul into her classroom and her students.

When Rachel became a mom in 2021, she quickly realized that she wouldn't be able to give her students the same amount of time and energy that she had always wanted to give them. Leaving the classroom in 2022 was an incredibly difficult decision for her. That summer, I suggested she come hang out at the office for a couple of weeks and see if Today's Hearing could fill her cup in the same way teaching had.

Thankfully, she took a chance on us—and on a whole new career.
Knowing Rachel's love of people and her natural gift for teaching, I knew she would be a great fit as an audiology assistant. She gets to use her science brain to troubleshoot and diagnose issues with hearing aids, while also using her teacher's heart to help patients learn how to care for their devices, pair their phones, and feel confident using their technology.

But Rachel has taken the role to a whole new level—far beyond anything I ever imagined. The systems, processes, and resources she has helped implement to make our office more efficient have been an incredible asset. She has brought so much to our team, and I am incredibly proud of everything she has accomplished.
And then there's the best part: I get to have my best friend of 25 years sitting next to me at work every day.

That is one of my favorite things in the world.

Rachel's laugh is infectious. Her heart brightens every room she walks into. I often say that Rachel is the other half of my brain—and now that we're both in perimenopause, that seems more true than ever! On the days when neither of us can remember the word we're trying to say, somehow the other one always knows exactly what it is.

For 25 years, we've grown up together. We've gone from high school volleyball managers to college roommates, newlyweds, homeowners, and now working moms and coworkers. We've celebrated the highs, supported each other through the lows, and somehow managed to collect a ridiculous number of road reflectors along the way.

I truly can't imagine my life without Rachel in it.

It is such a blessing to call her my best friend—and an even greater blessing to get to call her my coworker. I am so thankful that life brought us together back in 2001, and even more thankful that after all these years, I still get to walk through life with my very best friend by my side.

08/19/2026

REMINDER:
To provide our patients with the highest level of service, the Today’s Hearing team will be attending staff training on Thursday, August 20, from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., and all day Friday, August 21.

We will be unable to accommodate walk-in appointments or phone calls during this time. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this temporary closure may cause and appreciate your understanding as we take time to further improve our services.

We will reopen and be ready to assist you on Monday, August 24, at 8:30 a.m.

Thank you for your patience and continued support. We hope you have a wonderful weekend!

08/18/2026

We’re back with another informative “Let Me Tell You Something Tuesday”! This week’s topic helps visualize why people with hearing loss may have a hard time understanding speech.

“Let Me Tell You About The Speech Banana”

The speech banana is a tool used by audiologists to help patients and families understand speech sounds. Each speech sound has a designated frequency. The higher frequencies are usually the first to go when people experience hearing loss, which would be the /s, f, p, h/ and unvoiced “th” speech sounds. As hearing loss becomes more profound, sounds like /z,v,g,k/, and discerning between /m/ and /n/ and /d/ and /b/ increase in difficulty.

Missing these sounds can impact someone’s ability to grasp verbal conversation. It is fatiguing to the brain trying to fill in the gaps of conversation that your ears are missing.

If you feel like you are having trouble understanding conversation in quiet settings, or in busy restaurants, or at a distance, schedule a hearing test. Even if it may not feel like it's time to pull the trigger on hearing aids just yet, it is helpful to your audiologist to have a baseline to monitor the possibility of progressive loss.

To give a better perspective of your loved ones, read the following text again outloud, only this time, the high frequency sounds are missing:

“Let -e Tell You A-ou- The -peech Ba-a-a”

Because of the context clues, and the fact that you have read this sentence before, your brain is able to fill in the gaps of what is missing. Same applies to spoken language. Without clues like heightened volume, lip reading, and situational context, these gaps become harder to fill.

08/12/2026

On this weeks "Let Me Tell You Something Tuesday"...

"Let us tell you about Lydia"

If you tuned in last time, you learned about Robyn—and how we quickly discovered that what we really needed at our front desk was an octopus-type human. Someone who could answer the phone, check patients in, check patients out, schedule appointments, handle hearing aids, solve problems, calm people down, and somehow remember what everyone had for breakfast three years ago. Basically, someone with eight arms and the patience of a saint!

Enter Lydia, in January 2018.

I was about four months pregnant with my second child, Harrison, and I knew I needed to find someone who could keep the wheels on the bus while I was out on maternity leave. Unlike everyone else on our team, we found Lydia through an Indeed listing. We interviewed several people, but Lydia stood out from the very beginning.

For starters, she had previous hearing aid experience—which is a rare and precious commodity when you’re hiring for the front office. But even more than that, she was willing to do whatever needed to be done to help our patients and our office.

And then there was her calm.

Lydia is just…calm. Naturally calm. Unshakably calm. The kind of calm that makes you wonder if she has a secret meditation room somewhere in the back that the rest of us don’t know about.

She could be juggling 15 things at once, have the phone ringing, three people standing at the front desk, a hearing aid that suddenly decided it didn’t want to work, and a patient who was frustrated—and somehow Lydia would still be standing there calmly saying, “Let’s see what we can do.”

That is a special trait that simply cannot be taught.

And the best part? Those patients who sometimes came in frustrated would often leave happy. Many would come back for future visits and specifically request Lydia. She had a way of making people feel heard and cared for, even when they weren’t necessarily at their best.

Lydia fit into our front office like the final piece of a puzzle. She picked everything up quickly, became someone we could completely depend on, and has been the steady presence we didn’t even know we needed.

Over the past eight and a half years, Lydia has become so much more than someone who works at our front desk. She’s become part of our Today’s Hearing family.

She’s fun to work with, dependable, incredibly thoughtful, and somehow remembers details about things the rest of us have long forgotten. She’s always willing to help, always willing to jump in, and always seems to know what needs to happen next.

And honestly, I don’t know how we would have made it through the past eight and a half years without her.

I’m so thankful that an Indeed job posting brought Lydia through our doors in 2018. What started as a search for someone to help me while I was having a baby turned into finding someone who would become such an important part of our team—and someone I’m lucky to call a friend.

Lydia, we are so grateful for you. ❤️

08/06/2026

!!August Birthdays!! Check your mail, Today's Hearing has sent you a gift. Stop by the office with your card to redeem your prize.