This holiday season, take a moment and reflect on the importance of communication. Civilization itself was built on humanity’s ability to communicate. It’s essential to anyone who’s ever expressed a thought, personally, artisticall
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Hansaton Hearing Systems poises itself to become a bigger fish in the pond by expanding its presence in the United States. Rainer Kerscheck is Hansaton’s export manager for international markets. When Rudolf Fischer founded Hansaton Hea
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Nanci Link-Ellis uses her own experiences to change the way deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals view films. Nanci Link-Ellis I have been deaf since I was 10 years old. I grew up in a family that was involved in the entertainment industry, an
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At Perfect Seal, life revolves around earmolds: the traditional, the unique, and even the out-of-the-ordinary. Hearing Products Report (HPR): When was Perfect Seal founded? Who founded the company? Michael Martinez: [I founded] Perfect Seal i
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Creating accurate and convenient screening audiometry solutions was just the beginning for the innovative team at Otovation. Dave Davis, president and CEO of OTOVATION, recently spoke with the staff of Hearing Products Report. Hearing Produc
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Trey Knight, president of Lotus Technology, attributes the company’s continued success to a reputation for offering quality products. Trey Knight The hardy band of small, independent hearing-aid manufacturers that keeps losing members d
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A new year brings with it thoughts of the many “new” possibilities that can come with it. Various technological advances burst onto the hearing health care scene in 2005, and 2006 appears poised to usher in even more. One of the bigges
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Sy Kessler Sales Inc introduces a new, Swiss-manufactured, long-lasting battery to the US hearing aid market Probably the key component of a hearing instrument is the most utilitarian: the battery. But without it, the high-tech device is nothi
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An industry expert shares the steps required to build and keep business from going elsewhere. Assistive listening devices (ALDs) can be found in almost any environment nowadays. The Home & Garden Television (HGTV) show I Want That! recentl
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Despite whatever Mother Nature throws their way, Enhanced Listening Technologies Corp and Connections Unlimited Inc survive and thrive. Hearing Products Report recently spoke with Ted Simons, president and CEO of Enhanced Listening Technologies
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Discussing the implications for the future of children with hearing loss. With the advent of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and recent advances in technology, the number of young children in early intervention programs for the deaf and ha
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Vivosonic Inc creates products to make life a little easier for diagnostic clinicians. Before Vivosonic grew to become a developer and manufacturer of novel audiological medical devices, the Toronto-based company was simply a research project.
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Family-owned and operated Insta-Mold Products Inc continues to thrive and expand its influence in the hearing protection arena under the direction of a second generation of owners. When Sydney Gurschkov went into semiretirement a few years ago
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More than a half century ago, now the globally successful hearing instrument company was, literally, born in the basement of its cofounder Mas Harada. Michael Eckert Hearing Products Report recently had the opportunity to discuss the business m
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“Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today, Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today, And don’t worry ’bout tomorrow, hey.” —Lyrics from “Let’s Live for Today,” the Grass Roots, 1967 Living for the moment was
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