The Many Parts That Make Up a Hearing Aid

While you may have been wearing a hearing aid for several years, you may not realize the many components that work together to help you hear things daily. If your hearing aid is newer, it works similar to a mini-computer. The most common type of hearing aid used today is the receiver-in-the-ear (RITE) (also known as receiver-in-ear). In this article, we review the different parts of a RITE (or RIE) hearing aid.