Improving Patient Counseling, Part 2: The Importance of Social Style
How to effectively adapt your communication style to the patient’s personality
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Month: November 2007
Auditory Steady-State Response (ASSR): A Beginner’s Guide
A tutorial on ASSRs and how to create an estimated audiogram from which questions regarding hearing, hearing loss, and aural rehabilitation can be answered.
Read MoreSonic Innovations Q3 Sales Post 19% Leap Over 2006
Firm pays out nearly $1 million to settle lawsuit in same period.
Read MoreDowns is Honorary Chair for Pediatric Audiology Initiative
Veteran audiologist has advocted for universal newborn screening for more than 50 years.
Read MoreExperts Warn of Noisy Classrooms
Noises both outside and inside facility can obstruct understanding of 1 in 6 words.
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The Search for the Binaural Advantage…Revisited
It wasn’t easy, but eventually clinicians, dispensers, and consumers came to accept that, in most cases, two aided ears are better than one. A perspective from one of the early researchers who helped start the binaural fitting revolution.
Read MoreGennum Closes Sale of Hearing Instrument and Manufacturing Operations
Hearing instrument and manufacturing operations remain in Ontario.
Read MoreNon-nerve cells key for development of hearing
Study overturns assumption of hair cell “spontaneous” activity.
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High-Frequency Stimulation in Sensorineural Hearing Loss
We may be only scratching the surface on the possibilities for high-frequency stimulation and frequency transposition. Hearing aids may, in fact, really become brain aids. As William G. Hardy told us almost a half century ago: “Hearing is not in the ear but in the brain.”
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