HR 2007 Web Site Review
A look at commercial Internet resources available for hearing care professionals and their clients.
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Author: Hearing Review Staff
Short-term Datalogging: Another Approach for Fine-tuning Hearing Aids
To better understand patient complaints, a portable system is necessary to record acoustic events.
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Hearing Aid Technology vs. Steeply Sloping Sensorineural Hearing Loss:
For patients with steeply-sloping sensorineural hearing loss, the vast improvements recently made in hearing aid technology may not be completely effective due to reduced dynamic range and increased distortion that accompanies peripheral loss.
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Visible Speech: A Patient-Centered Clinical Tool
Visible Speech allows the dispensing professional to record, demonstrate, and verify the appropriateness of the hearing aid fitting while reviewing, demonstrating, and explaining the process in terms the patient understands—based on human speech and the Speech Intelligibility Index.
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Science-based Fittings: Cross-checking the Hearing Loss and Verifying the Fitting
The cross-check principle has been utilized throughout the audiological test battery and expanded upon with the introduction of new technologies. This article looks at the use of the cross-check principle in identifying hearing loss, and then applies it to the verification of the hearing instrument fittings.
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Willingness-to-Charge Data for Advanced Hearing Aid Features
A willingness-to-charge survey is used to gauge clinicians’ perceived value of four advanced features found in middle and upper-end hearing aid technology.
Read MoreCritical Hearing Gene Helps Send Auditory Messages To Brain
By studying a gene earlier linked to deafness in humans, researchers now have new insight into the molecular process by which components of the inner ear send messages to the brain.
Read MoreAllergy Drugs More Harmful Than Helpful For Chronic Ear Inflammation
Children who have persistent fluid in the middle ear, a condition called otitis media with effusion, are more likely to be harmed than helped by antihistamines and decongestants, a new review of studies has found.
Read MoreAG Bell Receives Grant for Distance Learning Program from NEC Foundation of America
NEC Foundation of America has awarded the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AG Bell), Washington, DC, a $30,000 grant to expand FIRST YEARS, an online distance learning program for professionals in the fields of deaf education, speech-language pathology, audiology and early intervention who work with children with hearing loss.
Read MoreNYC Transit System Study Finds Noise Levels Often Exceed Recommended Exposure Guidelines
In a survey of noise levels of the New York City transit system, researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health found that exposure to noise levels in subways have the potential to exceed recommended guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Read MoreStudy Reveals Benefits of Cochlear Implants on Speech Skills Following Meningitis
A major research study funded by national charity Meningitis Research Foundation conducted at the Nottingham Cochlear Implant Programme has reported in Pediatrics—the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics—on the remarkable achievements of children deafened by meningitis.
Read MoreObservation Policy Is Appropriate For Most Children With Middle Ear Infection
According to an article in The Lancet, antibiotics for middle ear infection (otitis media) are only beneficial in children under the age of two with both ears infected. For most other children an observation policy seems justified finds the study.
Read MoreCaptioned Telephone Service Coming Soon to New York’s Hard of Hearing and Deaf Community
The New York Public Service Commission, New York Relay, and Sprint announced that the New York Relay Captioned Telephone Service will be available beginning January 1, 2007.
Read MoreStudy Reveals Hearing Loss Impacting Work, Home Life for Baby Boomers
A survey released at the AARP Life@50+ Conference by The EAR Foundation, Nashville, Tenn, and Clarity®, Chattanooga, Tenn, reveals that hearing loss has become a serious health issue for aging Baby Boomers—impacting their work and home lives—yet most are not seeking help.
Read MoreMom Inventor Leads Way With Safe Volume Earbuds for Children
Christine Ingemi, a mom of 4 kids under age 11, invented iHearSafe Earbuds, which are safe volume earbuds.
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