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Show A-8 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, April 14-17, 2012 The Park Record MARKETPLACE Nightly Lodging Tally Projected Tally for week of April 15 -April 21, 2012 Audiologist aids hearing with practice Local doctor screens, cleans and fits for patients 20000 18000 16000 14000 12000 10000 8000 6000 4000 2000 0 Sun Mon Tues Wed 19,952 3,413 (Sun.) 2,850 1,153,848 Total Visitor Nights: Weekly High: Nightly Average: Year-To-Date: By GINA BARKER The Park Record When Wyoming native Leanne Norman moved to Utah to take her first job as an audiologist, she had no idea she would one day be opening a practice in the state. That was 1998. Thirteen years later, Norman decided to start Utah Audiology and Hearing, cementing Park City as home. "I really love Utah," Norman said. "I was happy here. There was never a reason to think about relocating, so I never did." For more than a year, Utah Audiology and Hearing has seen patients throughout Summit County, from Sidewinder Drive to Coalville. And the job comes with its own challenges, hurdles Norman finds she is regularly jumping with incoming patients. When it comes to hearing loss, most people will wait years before seeking help, and often times the doctor's visit was a family member's idea and not their own. "People don't want to get hearing aids, but they know that they need them," Norman said. "Its just amazing, how long people will go and how amazing it is when they hear all the little things around them. "We're exposing these patients to a new lifestyle, opening a world they've been shut out from for years." Norman said her job is filled with these kinds of rewards, the stories of someone hearing the water heater kick on for the first time or the moment where someone realizes mid-hike Thurs Fri Sat -1.0% -3.1% Nightly Lodging Tally Estimates Occupancy At: 12% Computed by adding the projected number of visitors per night for the week. Actual number of overnight visitors may vary due to last-minute reservations and walk-ins. Source: Park City Chamber Bureau or doing a raid depending on the situation," Williams said. "One construction company we audited in Coalville had potential fines of $128,000 just from rushing through forms and not getting the information out there correctly." But ICE offers programs and assistance to businesses paperwork." The I-9 system has been in seeking to meet the guidelines, place for more than two de- including a free program called cades, but the E-Verify system IMAGE, which has not had a started less than 10 years ago single Utah business particiand only became mandatory pant since it began. "We want to do under Utah law everything we can a year ago. to aid businesses While Kice interested in abidsaid the puring by the law," pose of ICE We want to do everyKice said. was not to slap thing we can to aid Utah employers every business interested in learnbusinesses interested on the wrist for ing more about the not having the in abiding by the IMAGE program date filled out law." can contact the or for missing local Homeland a piece of in- Virginia Kice Security Office formation for a ICE Spokesperson at 801-886-7539. former employStaff can arrange ee, businesses for interested busiout of compliance could face fines for: bad record keeping. nesses to receive an informaOne tip will often result in an tional presentation about best investigation, with a potential hiring practices. If employers have questions about the law raid or audit. "One business could turn in and their responsibilities, they another business, and ICE will can call the number for more investigate it by doing an audit assistance. Continued From A-7 GINA BARKER / PARK RECORD Leanne Norman, owner of Utah Audiology and Hearing, sits next to a hearing booth from where she tests patients' hearing. Today's hearing aid can be as small as a dime but still provides specialized amplifications to fit each person's needs. that the sound that was following them was their feet. The power of hearing again seems to hit many patients in waves, she said. "I love the success stories," she said. "… Those are the great, happy stories." Norman also tries to take the practice into the community, volunteering at the People's Health Clinic and with elderly services where she will clean hearing aids and perform screenings. What many people may not realize - what her more reluctant patients learn along the way - is that hearing aid technology is always improving. Hearing aids are no longer attached to a brick-sized piece of equipment worn at the hip. Instead, the flat, tinny amplification of hearing aids from yester-year have been replaced with an aid as small as a thumbnail, barely visible to those who know it's there. And size isn't the only improvement. "There's a stigma that hearing aids are only for older people, or that hearing aids are big, bulky and ugly," Norman said. "Hearing aids are so cosmetically hidden these days that people don't know they're talking to someone with a hearing aid anymore." The actual sound hearing aids pick up can be fine tuned - and not with a screwdriver like the hearing aid technology from 20 years ago - to every individual need from the comfort of Norman's computer keyboard. Problems with low pitch noises? The hearing aid can be adjusted to amplify noises only in that range. Hearing aids are moving farther into the future every year, with some hearing aids currently on the market that can be used in place of Blue- tooth, allowing a person to answer the phone without ever touching it. Even watching television next to a sleeping spouse has become much easier. From a child with a predisposition to ear infections to spending 12 years of her career helping train other audiologists how to use the wireless hearing aids, Norman said the career path she's taken never stops amazing her as it progresses. "The ear is this amazing organ," Norman said. "There's so much going on in that little space, it's just fascinating. The industry, the field, it's fascinating." 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