Hearing Aid Batteries
Hearing Aid Batteries Varta Batteries Inc offers the Power One line of hearing aid batteries, which feature “Long Tabs” for easy insertion. (800) 431-2504; www.powerone-batteries.com.
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Digital Speech Mapping
Digital Speech Mapping MedRx Inc introduces the DSM-PRO™ digital speech mapping system. The NOAH™-compatible DSM-PRO interfaces with most computers via the USB port, enabling use of fitting protocols. Features include live speech mappin
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Battery Dispenser
Battery Dispenser Energizer offers the EZ Change battery dispenser, which features a magnet that simply and precisely places a battery into any hearing aid. Energizer’s new hearing aid batteries now last up to 15% longer. (800) 383-7323; www
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Easing the Pain of High-Cost Medical Service
A conversation with Keith B. Dressler, DDS, MSD, founder of Elite Physician Services. Keith B. Dressler, DDS, MSD Founded in 1997, Elite Physician Services offers payment plans to the so-called elective health industry—including audiolog
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Setting an Ivy League Tone
CLARKE-School for the Deaf/Center for Oral Education emphasizes communication skills and advanced scholastic programs for its students. From left, students Kelvin Lunn, 11, David Bach, 9, Michael Reno, 12, and Grady Congleton, 12, leave Gawit
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A Challenging Journey
It has been several years since Heather Whitestone McCallum seized headlines and charmed the nation by becoming the first disabled person to wear the Miss America crown in 1995 (a severe bout of meningitis left her deaf at the age of 18 months).
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Hearing Aid Batteries
Hearing Aid Batteries Duracell® features the Activairtm with EasyTabtm is the first easy to replace hearing aid battery. The patented longer tab design makes the batteries easy to see, hold, and insert in hearing aids. (866) 285-6264; www.phonak-
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Soft-Solid Shell Material
Soft-Solid Shell Material Interton/AHS offers SilFlex, a soft-solid shell material for custom fit hearing aids that replaces the hard acrylic shell. Field trial data indicate improved patient satisfaction over identical aids using traditional har
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Software Package
Software Package Magnatone Corporation introduces the PocketProtm, a software package for use with the PocketPC 2002 handheld computer. (800) 327-5159; www.magnatone.com.
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Digital Hearing Instruments
Digital Hearing Instruments Unitron Hearing offers the Unison digital hearing family. Features include switchable directional microphones, expansion, and volume control with disabling capability. (800) 888-8882; www.unitronhearing.com.
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Full-range Digital Family
Full-Range Digital Family Starkey Laboratories Inc offers the Genesis family of full-range digital hearing instruments, featuring the Axent®, the Sequel II®, and the Endeavor®. (800) 328-8602; www.starkey.com.
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Implanted Technology
Implanted Technology SOUNDTEC Inc introduces The Direct System, a tiny, implanted rare-earth magnet that is a speech/ sound processor. (800) 793-9587; www.soundtecinc.com.
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State-of-the-Art Clinical Audiometer
State-of-the-Art Clinical Audiometer Interacoustics offers the AC40 state-of-the-art clinical audiometer. Standard features include high frequency, direct printer output, PC interface, patient assistant talk-over, and remote tone presentation cap
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Implantable Hearing Evolves
The mission of Oklahoma City-based SOUNDTEC Inc is to make its cutting edge technology affordable and available to a broad base of clientele. Feedback, occlusion, discomfort—for many hearing aid wearers, this is a way of life. But Soundte
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Preparing Today for the Needs of
Phonak USA representatives prepare for the day when the discriminating Baby Boomer population will demand hearing aids with superior technology en masse. Marketing Director Laura Voll, MS (left), and President Cathy Henderson Jones, MS, have i
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