For this next phase of research and development, a further clinical feasibility study has been initiated to evaluate the totally implantable cochlear implant technology.
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Unilateral hearing loss affects a person’s ability to hear and understand speech when there is other noise around and to find the source of speech or sound. The condition can be congenital or acquired.
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Applying noise in combination with small amplitude periodic oscillations to a nonlinear system can result in very intricate effects, according to researchers.
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The project, worth just under £1million (about $1.3 million USD), will see the Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey develop a new system that will look to recognize not only hand motion and shape, but also the facial expression and body posture of the signer.
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The FDA’s recent granting of de novo status for the self-fit Bose Hearing Aid may open the door to a new era of hearing aid technology and dispensing. Unlike an “OTC hearing device,” there will likely be a “self-fitting category” within the current FDA Class I and Class II hearing aid classifications.
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The FOCAS tool is designed to: 1) Actively seek input from both the client and family during the hearing needs and goal setting process; 2) Assess whether these are near- or far-field situations, and 3) Help to determine the optimal solutions for each. This paper by David Crowhen, MAud, and Bettina Turnbull, MAud, describes the survey results, rationale for, and how to use the FOCAS tool.
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The researchers were able recreate the development of human hair cells via an in-vitro method in the laboratory. As a result, future research may allow pharmacological treatments to be tested on human cells.
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The Pennsylvania Department of Education’s (PDE) Bureau of Special Education applied for the federal funds to implement the Pennsylvania Deaf-Blind Project, which aims to establish a system of technical assistance and resources to support schools, educators, and families of deaf-blind students.
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Researchers looked at hearing test data collected by oil and gas employers from 2012 to 2017. They found that, despite an increase in workers reporting they wear hearing protection (to 98% from 94%), the percentage of workers with noise-induced hearing loss grew to 45 from 33.
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The mixing of the two sounds, of the female wingbeat and the male’s own wingbeat, generates an additional distortion tone, or ‘auditory illusion’ that’s only present in the antennae (or in the ears of mammals). The flagella’s spontaneous vibrations change to be the exact same frequency as the female wingbeat, to maximally amplify the illusion.
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This study combined the results of 19 studies, including three randomized clinical trials, and suggests a greater benefit of adding the hyperbaric oxygen therapy may be associated with those patients who have severe to profound hearing loss and who failed to recover after standard medical treatment.
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Now that we’ve defined (at minimum) what an OTC hearing device should look like, maybe it’s time to start defining a minimal standard for what a professional hearing aid fitting should look like.
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Temporal envelope and temporal fine structure cues are complementary in nature, and both are used by listeners in their communications. Hearing loss, as well as the etiology and configuration of the hearing loss, could affect the relative importance of each cue for the listeners in their appreciation and understanding of daily sounds. This article reviews the importance of cues related to the temporal envelope and presents results of a study that compares the Widex EVOKE system, which is designed in part to preserve and enhance the temporal envelope, with another premium hearing aid.
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The FDA has approved the Bose Hearing Aid as the first self-fit hearing aid under the Agency’s De Novo premarket review pathway used for some low- to moderate-risk devices that are novel and for which there is no prior legally marketed device.
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The typical image of a musician with hearing loss is someone like Beethoven, who lost his hearing long after spending a lifetime learning, playing, or composing aural music. What is lost in this image is the fact that there are individuals like myself, who acquire significant hearing loss shortly after birth or in early adolescence, yet fall in love with aural music during this same period in their lives.
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