The International Hearing Society’s 60th Annual Convention and Expo will be held at the Seaport Hotel in Boston, September 15-17, 2011. Here’s a breakdown of the schedule of events and transportation information to the convention.
Read MoreThe blog EverydayHealth.com, The Los Angeles Times, Real Simple magazine, Univision, and Wall Street Journal Radio, are the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) 2011 media award recipients. In addition, the first ever ASHA Media Outreach Champion Award has been given to Vivian Sisskin, CCC-SLP, and Janice Trent, AuD, CCC-A.
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Tools for predicting a child’s speech audibility in a classroom from their audiograms, as well as a way to explain their potential speech reception in varying classroom listening environments.
Read MoreAccording to a new research study conducted by the Better Hearing Institute (BHI), today’s technically advanced, sleekly designed hearing aids are helping people with hearing loss regain their quality of life and remain socially involved.
Read MoreGN ReSound announced that it has entered into a technology development and license agreement to supply 2.4 GHz wireless technology to Cochlear America’s implantable bone anchored hearing devices.
Read MoreA new study from the University of Pennsylvania shows that declines in hearing ability may accelerate gray mater atrophy in auditory areas of the brain and increase the listening effort necessary for older adults to successfully comprehend speech. However, a hearing aid may help decrease the atrophy, as well as help hearing ability.
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A field study suggests that clients appear to prefer slightly more gain (4.2 dB) for soft-level inputs while listening to those languages that have a lower intensity at the end of a sentence (ie, Subject-Object-Verb syntax languages).
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