It has been several years since Heather Whitestone McCallum seized headlines and charmed the nation by becoming the first disabled person to wear the Miss America crown in 1995 (a severe bout of meningitis left her deaf at the age of 18 months).
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Hearing Aid Batteries Duracell® features the Activairtm with EasyTabtm is the first easy to replace hearing aid battery. The patented longer tab design makes the batteries easy to see, hold, and insert in hearing aids. (866) 285-6264; www.phonak-
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Soft-Solid Shell Material Interton/AHS offers SilFlex, a soft-solid shell material for custom fit hearing aids that replaces the hard acrylic shell. Field trial data indicate improved patient satisfaction over identical aids using traditional har
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Software Package Magnatone Corporation introduces the PocketProtm, a software package for use with the PocketPC 2002 handheld computer. (800) 327-5159; www.magnatone.com.
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Digital Hearing Instruments Unitron Hearing offers the Unison digital hearing family. Features include switchable directional microphones, expansion, and volume control with disabling capability. (800) 888-8882; www.unitronhearing.com.
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Full-Range Digital Family Starkey Laboratories Inc offers the Genesis family of full-range digital hearing instruments, featuring the Axent®, the Sequel II®, and the Endeavor®. (800) 328-8602; www.starkey.com.
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Implanted Technology SOUNDTEC Inc introduces The Direct System, a tiny, implanted rare-earth magnet that is a speech/ sound processor. (800) 793-9587; www.soundtecinc.com.
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State-of-the-Art Clinical Audiometer Interacoustics offers the AC40 state-of-the-art clinical audiometer. Standard features include high frequency, direct printer output, PC interface, patient assistant talk-over, and remote tone presentation cap
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The mission of Oklahoma City-based SOUNDTEC Inc is to make its cutting edge technology affordable and available to a broad base of clientele. Feedback, occlusion, discomfort—for many hearing aid wearers, this is a way of life. But Soundte
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Phonak USA representatives prepare for the day when the discriminating Baby Boomer population will demand hearing aids with superior technology en masse. Marketing Director Laura Voll, MS (left), and President Cathy Henderson Jones, MS, have i
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President Dave Whitman discusses the success plan behind the Hear For You network. Dave Whitman, president Founded in January 2001 as the by-product of a successful hearing aid practice, Oklahoma City-based Hear For You is a 100-office dispen
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The goals of the Audiology Foundation of America are to encourage audiology as a career path, and educate consumers on hearing problems and solutions. It is the dream of David Goldstein, PhD, the “founding father” of the Audiology Fo
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Power Online Batteries Starkey Laboratories offers the Axent™ BTE utilizing the new J13 case. The unit features increased fitting flexibility, improved hearing comfort, greater directionality and higher output and gain. (800) 328-8602;
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Hearing Line Sennheiser Electronic Corp’s Mikroport™ 201.3 PLL System features a transmitter and receiver to help the hearing-impaired fully integrate in social settings. (860) 434-9190; www.sennheiserusa.com.
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