Lace UK
Pindrop Hearing is proud to be one of only 30 Hearing Clinics in the UK to provide LACE
LACE can help you get the most from your hearing aids by training your brain
to make the best use of all the new auditory information provided by your
hearing aids.
What is LACE?
LACE (Listening and Communication Enhancement) is an interactive software
training program that enhances your ability to communicate by maximizing
listening skills and communication strategies.
Who should use LACE?
LACE is intended for adult patients, with or without hearing loss who have
difficulty understanding speech in challenging listening environments.
Examples of challenging listening environments:
Noisy Surroundings
Rapid Talkers
Competing voices
LACE is recommended for:
New hearing aid wearers who are getting used to their hearing aids
Hearing aid wearers who need to improve their listening skills
Hearing aid users with new hearing aids
Non-users of hearing aids who find it difficult to understand speech
LACE may also help some people with Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)
About LACE
LACE is developed from research in the University of California by Dr. Robert
Sweetow. The worlds only user-based listening training software, LACE uses
precisely controlled voice recordings to retrain the brain to understand speech.
LACE uses a self-paced, adaptive training structure. The system presents
interesting subject matter in 3 types of task that challenge the user but are
not frustrating:
Degraded Speech Tasks
Cognitive Tasks
Interactive Communication Strategies
After training, LACE users hear up to 40% better in difficult listening
situations such as:
Noisy Surroundings
Rapid Talkers
Competing voices
LACE UK Edition
LACE has been successfully used by over 60,000 people in the USA alone.
LACE UK Edition applies British accents and subject matter to the LACE system
and is now available in the UK through a network of Certified Lace Training
Centres, optimising the benefits of LACE to a UK audience.
For a limited time only Pindrop Hearing is giving out LACE for FREE with
every new hearing aid purchase.