Lakeside Hearing

Lakeside Hearing Visit us at one of our two locations:

KELOWNA: #202 - 3295 Lakeshore Road, Kelowna, BC

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Lakeside Hearing, Balance and Tinnitus is a team of Audiologists providing diagnostic assessment and treatment for in all areas of Audiology. The clinic is independently owned and operated by Nichole Sorensen, Doctor of Audiology.

Help Reduce Cochlear Implant Wait Times for British ColumbiansWhere you live shouldn’t determine how long you wait for e...
06/04/2026

Help Reduce Cochlear Implant Wait Times for British Columbians

Where you live shouldn’t determine how long you wait for essential hearing care.

A new national report found that adults in British Columbia are currently waiting 40 to 48 months for cochlear implant surgery, the longest wait times in Canada. The recommended timeline is six months or less.

For adults with severe to profound hearing loss, cochlear implants can restore access to speech and communication when hearing aids are no longer effective. Every year spent waiting can mean increased social isolation, communication difficulties, employment challenges, mental health impacts, and a higher risk of cognitive decline.

The Canadian Hard of Hearing Association is calling on the Province of British Columbia to:

→ Increase funding for cochlear implant procedures
→ Reduce wait times to medically appropriate levels
→ Publicly report assessment and surgery wait times

If you believe British Columbians deserve timely access to medically necessary hearing care, please add your name to this advocacy campaign.

Together, we can help ensure that people who qualify for cochlear implants receive the care they need when they need it.

Sign the petition: https://win.newmode.net/canadianhardofhearingassociation

Today we got to be part of something really good. 💜Lakeside Hearing was proud to participate in the Colours for Caring 2...
05/24/2026

Today we got to be part of something really good. 💜

Lakeside Hearing was proud to participate in the Colours for Caring 2026 Fun Run in support of Childhood Connections (https://childhoodconnections.ca/) and the families they care for here in our community.

Funds raised through the event help support the Strong Roots Centre and provide programs, resources, and support services for children and families across the Central Okanagan.

One of the things we love most about being an independent local clinic is getting to show up for the people around us, outside the walls of the clinic too. Good communities are built through small acts repeated over time. Conversations. Support. Showing up on a Sunday morning with coffee in hand and runners everywhere in neon powder chaos. 🌈

Huge thank you to the organizers, volunteers, participants, and everyone who helped make today happen. Kelowna really does have a big heart.

🎉🏅 Thank You, Kelowna! 🏅🎉We’re incredibly grateful to have our community vote for us in both the Capital News Best of th...
05/22/2026

🎉🏅 Thank You, Kelowna! 🏅🎉

We’re incredibly grateful to have our community vote for us in both the Capital News Best of the Best 2026 awards and KelownaNow’s Best of Kelowna 2026 awards, where we took home the top award in both! 🥹🙏🏼

As a small, independently owned audiology clinic serving Kelowna, Lake Country, and communities across the Okanagan, this kind of support means so much to our team.

At Lakeside Hearing, our focus has always been comprehensive, relationship-based care across hearing, tinnitus, balance, auditory processing, pediatric audiology, and complex hearing needs. We work with hearing technology from all major hearing aid brands, allowing recommendations to be based on the person sitting in front of us, their hearing profile, lifestyle, communication needs, and real-world listening environments.

We’re also deeply grateful to be part of a community that cares so much about supporting local businesses, healthcare, accessibility, arts, education, and one another. Kelowna and Lake Country are filled with incredible people doing meaningful work every day, and we’re honoured to be among them. 🎉👏💙

If you’re looking for comprehensive audiology care from a team our community continues to trust and recommend, give us a call or request your appointment online.

💻 lakesidehearing.com 📞 (250) 766-0294

May is Speech and Hearing Month, and this year we’re part of something we’re proud to support.Lakeside Hearing has been ...
05/14/2026

May is Speech and Hearing Month, and this year we’re part of something we’re proud to support.

Lakeside Hearing has been serving the Okanagan for over a decade, with Dr. Nichole Sorensen bringing more than 25 years of audiological care to the region.

One thing she and Dr. Claire Beldi have seen consistently is how long many people wait before seeking hearing care. Years of compensating. Years of explaining things away as stress, fatigue, busy restaurants, overwhelm, or people mumbling.

Nichole and Claire serve as founding clinical advisors for HearingEmpowered.ca - a platform connecting Canadians with independent audiology clinics focused on thoughtful, long-term hearing care and individualized support.

This month, Hearing Empowered™ and its editorial publication Empowerful, a published a feature exploring why so many people wait 7 to 10 years before seeking hearing care, and how hearing-related participation friction can quietly reshape everyday life through listening effort, social fatigue, adaptation, and withdrawal.

Because for many people, hearing loss does not arrive as obvious volume loss at first. It arrives as extra effort, exhaustion, difficulty following conversations, or the feeling that social situations suddenly take more energy than they used to.

And sometimes, after years of explaining those changes away, people slowly begin to realize that maybe part of the picture was their hearing all along.

If someone in your life has been wondering whether hearing might be part of the picture, it’s worth a read.

Read the story: empowerful.ca/stigma

Thank you so much for nominating us for Best of Kelowna 2026! 🌟🦻🏻 Voting is open until May 12 at 3PM and while you're th...
05/02/2026

Thank you so much for nominating us for Best of Kelowna 2026! 🌟🦻🏻 Voting is open until May 12 at 3PM and while you're there, show some love to all your favourite locally owned businesses!

Here's how to vote for us:

1️⃣ Google "Best of Kelowna 2026"

2️⃣ Click the green "Vote for Your Favourites" button

3️⃣ Scroll down to "Health & Wellness" and find "Audiology & Hearing Clinic"

4️⃣ Select Lakeside Hearing and click vote

5️⃣ Scroll all the way to the bottom and click "Continue" to submit your votes. You haven't voted until you do this last step!

Thank you for supporting your locally owned, independent audiology clinic! We are immensely grateful for our community’s support! 🙏💙

Thank you so much for nominating us for Best of Kelowna 2026! 🌟🦻🏻 Voting is open until May 12 at 3PM and while you're th...
05/02/2026

Thank you so much for nominating us for Best of Kelowna 2026! 🌟🦻🏻 Voting is open until May 12 at 3PM and while you're there, show some love to all your favourite locally owned businesses!

Here's how to vote for us:

1️⃣ Google "Best of Kelowna 2026" (or just head to: bestof.kelownanow.com)

2️⃣ Click the green "Vote for Your Favourites" button

3️⃣ Scroll down to "Health & Wellness" and find "Audiology & Hearing Clinic"

4️⃣ Select Lakeside Hearing and click vote

5️⃣ Scroll all the way to the bottom and click "Continue" to submit your votes. You haven't voted until you do this last step!

Thank you for supporting your locally owned, independent audiology clinic! We are immensely grateful for our community’s support! 🙏💙

Great teams are built outside the office too, right? 🎳Put us in a bowling alley and suddenly it’s less about schedules a...
04/20/2026

Great teams are built outside the office too, right? 🎳

Put us in a bowling alley and suddenly it’s less about schedules and roles and more about laughing at the gutter balls, cheering the wins, and just being together.

And that connection doesn’t stay at the lanes. It comes back with us. Into how we support each other, how we listen, and how we show up for every patient who walks through our doors.

What a great team bonding night at McCurdy Bowling Centre!

Kelowna, where do you take your team to connect?

April 4th is Auditory Processing Disorder Awareness Day, and we want to talk about something that trips a lot of parents...
04/04/2026

April 4th is Auditory Processing Disorder Awareness Day, and we want to talk about something that trips a lot of parents up.

Your child passed their hearing test. So why do they keep missing instructions? Why do noisy rooms wipe them out? Why does reading feel so hard?

Their ears are doing exactly what ears are supposed to do. The tricky part is what happens after, in how the brain makes sense of sound. That's auditory processing, and when it's not working well, it doesn't show up on a standard hearing test.

Children with APD often struggle to follow directions (especially in noise), get easily distracted, zone out in class, have trouble with reading and spelling, and get frustrated in ways that look like behaviour problems or attention issues. They hear just fine. Listening is where it falls apart.

The good news: an APD assessment with one of our audiologists can figure out exactly what's going on. And there are real, practical ways to help, from at-home training programs to in-clinic therapy to a small remote microphone that brings the teacher's voice directly into your child's ear in the classroom.

If this sounds like your child, it's worth looking into.

Kelowna: (236) 420-0294
Lake Country: (250) 766-0294

📧 [email protected]
💻 Learn more and book here: https://lakesidehearing.com/auditory-processing-evaluation-and-therapy/

Lakeside Hearing will be closed on Tuesday in observance of Remembrance Day. We will be open the rest of the week, inclu...
11/07/2025

Lakeside Hearing will be closed on Tuesday in observance of Remembrance Day. We will be open the rest of the week, including Monday, during our regular business hours.

We pause to remember and thank all who have served, and those who continue to serve, for their courage and sacrifice.

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Monday 9am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 4:30pm
Thursday 9am - 4:30pm
Friday 9am - 4:30pm

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