In an effort to improve upon current methods of evaluating school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs), the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has developed a new accountability measure, the Performance Assessment of Contributions and Effectiveness (PACE).
Read MoreOticon has updated its eCaps Pro interactive multimedia counseling tool, designed to empower hearing care professionals to engage clients in the counseling and fitting process and to better identify and meet their needs.
Read MoreDutch hearing aid manufacturer ExSilent has appointed Caroline Ammerlaan as its new managing director, replacing Wouter Haak.
Read MoreMarch 2013 will give tinnitus clinicians two event opportunities to learn more about the assessment and management of tinnitus and hyperacusis.
Read MoreLearn about Sweetspot Marketing, a new search engine optimization (SEO) company designed to attract more visitors to hearing health websites.
Read MoreResearchers at the University of South Florida (USF), House Ear Institute, and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology have identified a genetic biomarker for age-related hearing loss.
Read MoreAs part of The New York Times Well column, a writer with hearing loss since childhood described her journey trying to find a digital replacement for her analog hearing aid. Along the way, various hearing aids were described as being overpriced for their estimated manufacturing cost. So far, over 250 comments from users and hearing professionals have been generated below the article.
Read MoreSonova presented several new products from its Phonak and Unitron brands at the International Congress of Hearing Aid Acousticians (EUHA) in Frankfurt, Germany.
Read MoreNew telecommunication technology that delivers specialist hearing health services to Australia’s outback and its nearby pacific neighbors has been successfully trialed by researchers from the HEARing Cooperative Research Centre (HEARing CRC).
Read MoreSiemens Hearing Instruments has just unveiled Micon, a new platform behind its BestSound Technology. The new microprocessor is designed to enable listening with ease, even in the most challenging situations. It will be available in the new Ace, as well as Siemens’ Pure, Aquaris, and Siemens Life models.
Read MoreAt the 2012 LeadingAge conference, Hamilton CapTel is demonstrating the CapTel 840i Captioned Telephone in LeadingAge’s 3,000-sq-ft "Idea House."
Read MoreBeltone recently announced the introduction of micro-Invisa, a new virtually invisible hearing instrument and the smallest custom product ever manufactured by Beltone.
Read MoreNearly 850 hearing professionals attended Audigy Group’s 2012 Team Summit, recently held at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. The featured theme of this year’s summit was teamwork.
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Read MoreOticon Medical recently held its first scientific meeting, where international clinicians, researchers, and opinion leaders in otology, neurotology, and audiology gathered to discuss the latest advances and the future of bone anchored hearing solutions.
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