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Help for a Better Quality of Life<br />
Hearing Professionals of Alabama (HPOAL) is locally owned<br />
and operated by Audiologists Dr. Beth Hoven and Dr. Allison<br />
Kelly. HPOAL opened in 2014 to serve both pediatric and adult<br />
populations who experience hearing loss. The practice provides<br />
newborn hearing assessment, pediatric and adult hearing aid,<br />
cochlear implant and bone-anchored hearing aid services.<br />
In 2017, HPOAL expanded their services and opened their<br />
second practice in Montgomery, Alabama. It is the goal of the<br />
audiologists at HPOAL to provide the most knowledgeable and<br />
trusted hearing healthcare.<br />
Since opening in 2014, Hearing Professionals of Alabama has<br />
helped thousands of patients hear better and have found that<br />
being a part of improving someone’s quality of life is a truly<br />
rewarding opportunity. In 2021, Drs. Hoven and Kelly established<br />
The Hearing Foundation at Hearing Professionals of Alabama, the<br />
first non-profit 501(c)(3) organization in East and Central Alabama<br />
aimed at providing access to amplification devices to lowincome<br />
individuals. The Foundation’s vision is to make quality<br />
hearing health care and technology available and accessible to<br />
those with financial need who are struggling with hearing loss.<br />
The Hearing Foundation at Hearing Professionals of Alabama<br />
depends on generous monetary gifts and in-kind donations of<br />
gently used hearing aids and cochlear implant devices. To learn<br />
more, please visit www.hpoal.com/hearing-foundation.<br />
The owners and audiologists at Hearing Professionals are grateful<br />
for the opportunity that God has given them to be able to serve<br />
their communities. To learn more about Hearing Professionals of<br />
Alabama and the services they provide, or to schedule an evaluation,<br />
please call (334) 521-7501 or visit www.HPOAL.com.<br />
Dr. Beth Hoven<br />
Dr. Allison Kelly<br />
Call us today to set up your<br />
hearing consultation.<br />
334-521-7501<br />
2415 Moore’s Mill Road, Suite 225,<br />
Hamilton Place<br />
(next to Publix)<br />
Auburn, AL 36830<br />
www.hpoal.com<br />
Ray Thomas<br />
Age: 73<br />
Occupation: Rental Property<br />
Ray Thomas was diagnosed with<br />
hearing loss in his mid 40’s. “I couldn’t<br />
hear my wife, at church and normal<br />
conversations without saying ‘Please<br />
repeat that’”. A friend suggested he see the audiologists<br />
at HPOAL. Now, Mr. Thomas doesn’t go a day without<br />
his hearing aids. He sees Dr. Hoven for his hearing aid<br />
services and reports that wearing hearing aids is “the<br />
best decision I have ever made concerning my health<br />
and quality of life”.<br />
He wants others to know that they should purchase<br />
quality hearing aids and go to a good doctor. Mr.<br />
Thomas raves that “they (hearing aids) have changed my<br />
whole world. I had forgotten how pretty the birds sing!”<br />
McKinley Kytan<br />
Age: 7<br />
McKinley Kytan was 4 years old when<br />
she was officially diagnosed with<br />
hearing loss. McKinley’s hearing loss<br />
is hereditary. Her mother Erica recalls<br />
she failed her newborn hearing test.<br />
As McKinley got older her hearing loss progressed. “We<br />
first noticed her hearing loss when she would tell us<br />
she couldn’t hear the tv despite turning the volume up.<br />
Her preschool teachers also noticed she had a hard time<br />
listening.”<br />
McKinley began receiving services at Hearing<br />
Professionals of Alabama in 2019 and was soon fit with<br />
her first set of hearing aids. Her mother explains that<br />
for McKinley “the fitting process was super easy! Once<br />
the hearing aids came in, we came to the office for her<br />
fitting. Dr. Allison set the hearing aids for McKinley’s<br />
hearing loss and we were ready to go. McKinley adjusted<br />
super well to having to wear hearing aids.” McKinley is<br />
now a student in Auburn City Schools and explains to<br />
other children that the things in her ears are “my hearing<br />
aids and they help me hear better”.<br />
The staff at Hearing Professionals of Alabama have been<br />
phenomenal. Dr. Allison is so sweet and gentle with her<br />
pediatric patients. She has definitely made our hearing<br />
loss process so much easier to deal with. We absolutely<br />
would recommend HPOAL for your hearing loss journey.<br />
EAST ALABAMA LIVING 35
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