The team at Earmold Design Inc endeavors to achieve a perfect combination of acoustics, comfort, and aesthetics in their product lines. When the employees at Earmold Design Inc, Minneapolis, are given the specifications for a earmold, they do
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Courses offering training for everyday living and vocational skills are available for hard of hearing and deaf adults through a specialized American School for the Deaf program. Occupational training skills student Robert Harrison, left, lea
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The Baby Boomer generation thought they would hear the music forever, however, many are now having trouble hearing it at all. This problem isn’t just one for older Americans. According to studies conducted in 1999 by the US Food and Drug Adm
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Vibration Reduced Receiver Knowles Electronics, Itasca, Ill, introduces the PHF receiver. The PHF receiver uses Knowles’ Pantograph technology to reduce receiver vibration, thereby decreasing the possibility of mechanical feedback within hea
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VNG Technology Interacoustics, Eden Prairie, Minn, has announced updates to its VO25 VNG technology. Features include improvements to the cameras and projection images, to ensure high-quality recordings. (800) 947-6334; www.interacoustics-us.com.
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Amplified Telephone Ameriphone Products by Walker, a Division of Plantronics Inc, Garden Grove, Calif, offers the XL-40 Amplified Telephone. The unit delivers up to 43+dB extra amplification and features a separate adjustable tone control (500-2,
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Digital Hearing Instruments Siemens Hearing Instruments Inc, Piscataway, NJ, offers the PHOENIX™ Pro, which has the digital sound quality of the PHOENIX series with the added advantage of programmable controls. The PHOENIX Pro family consist
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Post Auricular Canal Aid SeboTek™ Hearing Systems, Tulsa, Okla, introduces the PAC (post auricular canal) aid. The concept behind the patented design of the PAC is the separation of the sound processor and the speaker. This design enables th
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Clinical OAE Vivosonic, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, offers VivoScan™ Clinical OAEs with screening capabilities—for diagnostics, monitoring ototoxicity and noise-induced HL, and screening. They are fast, accurate, and consistent by patente
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Maximum Output Oticon Inc, Somerset, NJ, introduces the SUMO, super power maximum output, with 142 dB SPL MPO, 82 dB gain, and high levels of LF gain and output. The unit is powered by a new amplifier and receiver design, Output Optimization Tech
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SeboTek Hearing Systems’ PAC system increases user comfort by separating the sound processor and speaker. Mike and Jim Feeley, founders of SeboTek Hearing Systems. Since its founding in 2001, SeboTek Hearing Systems, LLC, has offered pat
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The traditional keys to the success of this nearly century-old company are focusing on customer needs and running an efficient business. Instead of focusing on technology as its end, since 1904, Oticon Inc has used it as a means to its end
Read MoreImproving functionality of hearing aid microphones has been at the core of Knowles Electronics’ success. In the large and growing market of hearing microphones and receivers, Knowles Electronics is a giant, generating in excess of $100 m
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Dogs for the Deaf are trained to provide an extraordinary level of guidance, security, and companionship to appropriate human candidates. Not all hearing technology consists of plastic and circuit boards—some of it is made up of flesh a
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Current trends in this country place tremendous emphasis on the importance of family values, and the hearing health care community appears to be a strong reflection of this trend, as many businesses within the industry were launched as family pr
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