The authors propose an audiologic treatment shift from a site-of-lesion focus to a family-centered care perspective as a means of increasing the value of our services and the uptake of hearing devices.
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Dr Van Vliet considers how to refer a patient to a new provider without disrupting continuity of care or the bundled fee service model. What do you do for patients who need full service care, have purchased hearing aids under the model, but have relocated, or do not want to return to the original provider?
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Occupational health professionals who conduct both hearing and pulmonary function tests will appreciate how integrating an audiometer and spirometer with a common database can simplify their testing processes.
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The NSF funded RIT/NTID with a $450K grant for a longitudinal study of vision in deaf children. The scientists will study how hearing levels and early-language experience influence deaf children’s visual skills.
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The Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) Board of Trustees has announced the appointment of Barbara Kelley as the new executive director of HLAA, effective immediately. Kelley has served HLAA for 28 years of dedicated service in various roles.
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Despite a well-attended history, there is little agreement on the definition, diagnosis or treatment of auditory processing disorders (APDs) in 2016. APDs remain universally ill-defined and poorly understood. In this article, co-authors Beck, Clarke and Moore tackle contemporary APD issues, and more.
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Dr Chasin argues that the PCAST category of a “basic” hearing aid for mild-to-moderate hearing loss was misnamed, and should be “hearing aids for conductive hearing loss.” With a conductive hearing loss, an OTC “reading glasses approach” might work, but a sensorineural hearing loss is entirely different.
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On a daily basis, people with hearing loss choose from an array of strategies to communicate effectively. With the right attitude, this usually works. But what about those days when coping with hearing loss becomes a grind? Gael Hannan says, at times like these, it’s best to just get out of town.
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New research findings have the potential to change the way patients with hearing loss are assessed and treated. HR Editor Karl Strom looks beyond recent findings on limitations of the audiogram to other research discoveries.
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In a small study with an anticancer drug, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine, the NIH, and Mass General, found that some people with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) had restoration of hearing.
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Researchers in the University of South Florida’s Global Center for Hearing and Speech Research (GCHSR) have received a 5-year, $9 million grant from the NIH to study two unique ways to treat age-related hearing loss (ARHL).
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power one, the German brand produced by the largest hearing aid battery manufacturer in the world, will be in Paris with its “We are power one!” campaign to showcase its products during the UNSAF 2016 Congress.
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Telehealth, self-adjusting hearing aids, PSAPs, running a sustainable audiology practice. . . these trends are already influencing the future of hearing care. Ida Institute asks: As a hearing care professional, are you future-ready?
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For your convenience, The Hearing Review has compiled this alphabetical listing of exhibitors at the 2016 AudiologyNOW! AAA Convention in Phoenix, Ariz, April 13-16. Be sure to visit The Hearing Review team at booth #850.
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Hearing loss is the third most common chronic illness for older adults, yet uptake or use of hearing aids is relatively low. A hearing aid adjustment program at the University of Missouri may help increase hearing aid use among older adults.
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