Topics included modern methods for evaluating hearing aids in real-life settings, binaural speech understanding, the natural perception of one’s own voice, and new approaches to tinnitus management.
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Arizona Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ACDHH) is pleased to announce that Kimberly Minard has been hired as a deaf specialist as the organization expands the team.
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Former Starkey President Jerry Ruzicka and former Sonion VP of sales Jeff Taylor were found guilty of multiple counts of fraud, while former VP of human resources Larry Miller and MicroTech founder Larry Hagen were found not guilty.
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The annual camp is among the key programs of Songs For Sound, a national charity dedicated to improving the quality of life for those with hearing loss.
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AAA 2018 is almost a month away. The world’s largest gathering of audiologists will be held April 18-21 at the Music City Center in Nashville, where the Academy will celebrate its 30th Anniversary.
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This week’s Expert Insight addresses how long a battery should last after a full recharge, how Bluetooth streaming can affect battery life, and if the life of a hearing aid circuit is shortened by a rechargeable system. Get new insights into power issues, and ask your own questions here!
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The study looked at people with peripheral age-related hearing loss, which is caused by problems in how the inner ear and hearing nerves function and leads to people not being able to hear.
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Project PACT: Preparation about Collaborative Teaching, offers funding to support future Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) teachers.
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It’s hard to follow doctors’ orders when you cannot hear them! A quiet revolution is taking place in medicine; doctors are increasingly being reimbursed for their services based on patient outcomes, and not the standard fee-for-service model that focuses on quantity and/or complexity of care. As medical facilities seek methods for greater patient engagement and satisfaction, as well as more effective treatments for chronic conditions, hearing healthcare finds itself an integral part of value-based healthcare.
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As the name suggests, temporary threshold shift (TTS) is a temporary loss in sensitivity to certain sounds following an exposure to a loud noise or music. Marshall Chasin, AuD, explains how our thinking about TTS has changed over the years.
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The question is whether or not it is a good thing to lock the software so that only “authorized” persons can have access to programming the hearing aids.
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In her new role, Wassell is responsible for expanding the Lyric business through a variety of marketing and business development initiatives designed to help hearing care professionals grow their practice.
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YHN is a national network of hearing healthcare professionals with nearly 5,000 affiliates, that allows independent providers to generate and maximize patient opportunities while maintaining practice autonomy.
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The day-long session, part of the Oticon Student Seminar Series, aimed to supplement and complement the education that students receive in their university programs by giving them an opportunity to engage in formal and informal discussions with Oticon audiologists and specialists.
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IntriCon has taken another major step forward in its hearing aid and hearables offerings—this time adding audio streaming functionality. IntriCon’s and NXP’s R&D teams merged hearing aid engineering and wireless audio streaming semiconductor technology to deliver hearing aid devices that can stream wireless audio from IntriCon’s wireless accessories. It intends to launch this technology—coupled with a remote microphone—into its Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) and Direct-to-Insurance (DTI) channels in the first half of 2018.
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