In the 14th Annual American Business Awards competition, Starkey’s Halo 2 hearing aid received a Bronze Stevie Award in the category of Technical Innovation of the Year for using mobile technology to create a smart solution for people with hearing loss.
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Beltone A/S announced KAM Hearing Health as its exclusive distributor for Hong Kong, Macau, and Guangdong province in China. KAM Hearing Health will provide Beltone hearing aids and wireless accessories through its professional centers in these regions.
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Audiology Systems, a US distributor of GN Otometrics products and other leading audiology and vestibular equipment, has added the I-Portal® rotary chair by Neuro Kinetics Inc (NKI) to its portfolio of balance products.
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The Edison Awards, celebrating 29 years of honoring excellence in innovation and the development of new products and services, announced at its April 2016 Awards Gala in New York that the ZPower Rechargeable System for Hearing Aids was voted a Bronze Winner for innovation.
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The HearUSA Hearing Care Network and Tinnitus Treatment Solutions (TTS) have announced a partnership that aims to provide broader customized sound therapy and expert clinical care to more tinnitus patients, who will benefit from TTS audiology care via telemedicine, combined with in-person care.
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Using The Discovery Conversation can improve your in-clinic success. It focuses on creating an emotional connection with clients by asking questions that uncover their personal story around how not hearing well impacts them during important situations in their life.
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Starkey announced activities to help raise awareness of better hearing in May, which is Better Hearing and Speech Month, and is encouraging people to follow them on social media through the month to learn more about hearing loss and hearing technologies.
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Hearing care professionals need to be able to recognize which tools in their tinnitus toolbox to utilize on a patient-by-patient basis, and also to be aware of research, to help make navigation of the treatment process easier for both clinician and patient.
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Auditdata’s increasing activities in the US have been fueled by its acquisition of Otovation, and its relatively new partnership with Sycle.net–growth that demanded a strengthening of the US team, which Joy Glen joined as VP of US Sales in March 2016.
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In this new product launch teaser video, audiologists and hearing conservation practitioners cite barriers to efficient audiogram data management. The video, titled “Resolve Audiometric Data Management Challenges with SmartMove Cloud: 1,” can be viewed on YouTube.
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Meditation has been shown to cause physiological and neurological changes, enhancing a range of cognitive processes and self-regulation abilities, including temporal resolution ability, speech perception in noise, cognition, and auditory processing.
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New research shows it is reasonable to expect the same speech recognition benefit for individuals with severe hearing impairment when using binax beamforming technology as previously reported for those with mild-to-moderate losses.
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“Come read with me” are powerful words for children learning to read and write. Deaf or hard-of-hearing kids living in bilingual homes can put these words into practice via a literacy program from the USC Caruso Family Center for Childhood Communication.
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Hearing care professionals must communicate at a number of levels. Informational and motivational counseling help us move people along with their treatment plan, but we should consider the methods we use to ensure there is effective communication.
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Because the literature shows the benefits of DNR include more rapid word learning rates, less listening effort, better recall of words, improved SNR at the hearing aid output, and more, audiologists Beck and Behrens suggest including activation of the DNR circuit as the “go-to” setting for adults and children.
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