2/7/2007 K. Todd Houston, PhD, has stepped down as the executive director of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AG Bell). The announcement was made Jan. 30 by the association’s board of directors which
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In January, the hearing care field lost two 90-something pioneers in audiology, as well as a fairly young industry inventor. John Duffy, PhD, died of a series of strokes at age 93 after suffering a fall late last year. Duffy was a sometime
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About 400 dispensing professionals—almost 200 of whom were from 27 countries outside the United States—attended this conference held near Chicago.
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A look at some of the exciting products available to hearing health care professionals.
Read MoreVisible speech is one of the best-kept secrets to patient satisfaction; it makes a significant, valuable, and measurable addition to the clinical process. It is also a powerful and useful business tool.
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An A-B-A study design, in which the child’s old hearing aids were refitted at the end of the study so that direct comparisons could be made, indicates that improvements using multi-channel non-linear (MCNL) super-power aids are not due to learning or test effects, but rather the effects of the device’s advanced technical features.
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A template for establishing a new direction for your business in 2007, and eight ideas that could, individually, have a dynamic impact on your company.
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An examination of traditional fitting philosophy shows that we should examine the “glass half full” the residual auditory area) rather than the “glass half empty” (hearing loss or hair cells that cannot be restored). Filling the auditory area or dynamic range is at the heart of all modern fittings.
Read MoreAmerican BioHealth Group (ABG), a pharmaceutical company in San Diego founded in 2001, will announce the positive results on the first compound shown in a clinical trial to prevent hearing loss.
Read MoreRichard “Dick” Vessella, co-inventor of the jodi-vac hearing aid cleaner, passed away January 7, 2007. He was 53.
Read MoreAudiology pioneer and professor John K. Duffy, PhD, died at his home in January. Duffy had suffered several strokes. He was 93.
Read MoreRichard “Dick” Vessella, co-inventor of the jodi-vac hearing aid cleaner, passed away January 7, 2007. He was 53.
Read MoreHigh school students with hearing loss in 10th or 11th grade can compete in the second annual SpiRIT Writing Contest, sponsored by Rochester Institute of Technology’s (RIT) National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester, NY.
Read More“The Young and the Restless” character Devon Hamilton, played by actor Bryton McClure, received a cochlear implant, an implanted medical device that functionally restored his hearing.
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Although I never met Bob Edgell, I do know him from his body of work as the editor and publisher of the now-defunct Hearing Dealer magazine of the 1950s and 1960s. He was a predecessor of my esteemed mentor, Marjorie Skafte (the magazine was
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