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Read MoreThe scientific rationale for using dietary and endogenous antioxidants to prevent and improve hearing disorders.
Read MoreDevice manufacturer also now accepting candidates for clinical trial.
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The objective analysis afforded by datalogging can provide the clinician with information to more effectively program the hearing aids and counsel the patient; however, the clinician is ultimately responsible for knowing how to use that information appropriately—particularly when there is a discrepancy between the user report and the datalogging.
Read MoreIn most cases condition is identified only after an abnormal hearing screening result.
Read MoreResearchers aim to prove that a nonsense mutation underlying Usher syndrome is capable of being suppressed in vivo.
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It is important to select a hearing aid with a sufficiently high MPO such that the desired gain plus the input levels would not be limited by the MPO. The same considerations should also be applied to setting the MPO on a hearing aid in order to ensure maximum audibility and optimal SNR, while considering listening comfort.
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A study that looks at the attenuation value provided by a popular noise-cancelling headphone in the presence of high-level white noise, and a discussion of what this means in recommendations for hearing conservation.
Read MoreTwo categories honor outstanding audiologists in general and pediatric practice.
Read MoreNew body will provide counsel and support for insitutes strategic planning; seminar to convene in September.
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References in the academic literature maintain that flattening of the speech envelope by fast multichannel amplitude compression reduces speech intelligibility—references that typically ignore the counteracting effect of recruitment. A perspective from one of the pioneering engineers of compression in hearing instruments.
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Maintaining microphone ports, ensuring they are free from occlusion, is very important to the function of the hearing aid. Severe occlusion of the rear microphone port may produce values of greater than 15 dB of increased output for non-frontally arriving sound that is otherwise attenuated by the directional processing.
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