Month: March 2008

Building Genuine Success

James W. Wilson, president of The Wilson Group, discusses the components of establishing a solid business model. Few sights in the business world are sadder than that of a young professional with a small company of his or her own, sitting for

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Maintaining the Quality of Sound

Dick Vessella, BC-HIS, of Advanced Hearing Technologies LLC, discusses how using customized vacuum products can extend the life of hearing instruments. Dick Vessella, BC-HIS Recently, Hearing Products Report (HPR) had the opportunity to inter

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Hitting for the Sycle

Sycle.net is a Web-based practice management subscription service for hearing aid dispensers and audiologists. The service uses high-profile partners to create, transmit, and store records for hearing clinics of all sizes. Maybe it is a bit ap

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The Precision of Comfort

Established in 1975, Precision Laboratories has built a strong reputation by offering its clients quality, custom-made ear molds that are handmade by industry craftsmen. All the research and design ingenuity in the world does a hearing aid no

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Getting The Word Out

We all know that proper attention to diet and physical activity is imperative to maintaining health and keeping our bodies functioning well, but what about our hearing health? Hearing loss changes the way we enjoy the everyday sounds of life and

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Nothing’s Bugging Eli

Director/producer Eli Steele has overcome many of the challenges of a lifelong hearing impairment to face another challenge—a career in filmmaking. Eli Steele (right) discusses the direction of a scene in his film “What’s Buggin

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Providing Solutions

Ron Bain:, president of AudioCare, discusses his company’s position in the retail hearing aid market. Recently, Hearing Products Report (HPR:) had an opportunity to speak with Ron Bain:, president of AudioCare, a family-owned and operated

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Thinking Small

Sonion has established the reputation of being a leader in the manufacturing of minuscule hearing-aid components. Size matters. And the smaller the better, at least where hearing-aid components are concerned. Which is why one giant of the com

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Using Captioned Telephones

Hearing-impaired author and professor emerita Nancy Shuster offers a first-hand look at captioned phone options. Just recently I participated in a telephone trial for captioned telephones. This took place in Florida, one of the states involved

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Hear All About It

When Dennis Hampton began sending Hearing HealthCare News to his own patient base as part of their follow-up care, little did he realize the newsletter would evolve into a customized information and marketing tool for audiologists across the nati

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Four More Years…

It doesn’t seem to matter what programs are passed on Capitol Hill, health care in this country continues to exist in crisis mode. The rising cost of medical care and health care coverage is becoming prohibitively expensive for most American

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SeboTek

Not since the CIC was brought to market in the mid 1990s has the hearing health field witnessed a new classification of hearing aids. Over the past 10 years, product design efforts have, instead, been largely focused on digital signal processing,

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Otodynamics

David T. Kemp, PhD, FRS, the founder of Otodynamics Ltd and recipient of the ARO Award of Merit and the ASHA Distinguished Service Award in 2003 for his work on OAEs. Otodynamics specializes in otoacoustic emission instruments and offers a full

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