As technology expands in all directions, we should be thinking of the future and how things may change for hearing aids—and at the same time, recognize that some things will likely never change. Viewing the CES exhibits focused me on the future and made me wonder what we have to look forward to with hearing aids in the near future, say in 2020 (Y2.02K).
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The Earlens Light-Driven Hearing Aid is designed to provide patients and clinicians with an amplification option that produces superior sound quality and extended bandwidth relative to traditional acoustic hearing aids. Here are answers to the top 10 commonly asked questions about the device.
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This clinical trial suggests that Signia OVP provides a substantial improvement in own-voice satisfaction, and that this improvement is present for different fitting strategies, and for different ear-canal couplings. Moreover, when the satisfaction with OVP is compared to alternative solutions from competitive products, a significant OVP advantage was seen—to the extent that own-voice satisfaction with OVP using a closed fitting is equal or superior to other products using an open fitting.
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Her areas of specialization and clinical research include the diagnosis of hearing loss in children, fitting of amplification in infants, and the audiological management of auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder.
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This study looks at how advanced hearing aid features may affect the results of routine real-ear measurement (REM). One of the key points is that, by using speech noise stimuli (like the ISTS stimuli) during REM, you should be able to obtain an accurate representation of speech gain while not having to turn off all of the advanced features.
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The TNT is a reliable and efficient clinical test that allows measurement of a hearing-impaired listener’s tolerance for noise—with and without hearing aids—so that the results can be compared to normal-hearing listeners, among various hearing aid features, and on the same individual over time. This tool may also be useful for estimating potential satisfaction of the fitted hearing aids in real-life noisy environments.
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Screening a patient for potential skin cancer lesions and referring patients to a medical professional, when warranted, can result in a life-saving intervention. Here’s how to do it.
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The researchers found that keeping the head still but shifting the eyes to one side or the other sparks vibrations in the eardrums, even in the absence of any sounds.
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Since its launch, the Hearing Aid Project has collected hearing aids that have sat in drawers or have been discarded after users purchased new hearing aids.
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Hearingbenefit.com is the company’s dedicated direct-to-consumer website store, which is designed to complete the purchase phase for the consumer.
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The reason for this finding could be that children with cochlear implants are older when they are first exposed to spoken language. Those with normal hearing learn aspects of language, such as the rhythm and melody of their mother tongue, from birth and even in the womb.
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The goal of the partnership is to strengthen the patient’s perspective in their hearing care.
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The Baha SoundArc was designed to provide children with conductive hearing loss, mixed hearing loss, or single-sided sensorineural deafness (SSD) with the hearing performance and amplification they need to facilitate language development on par with their hearing peers.
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In order to make hearing care accessible for people on low incomes, the Hear the World Foundation is working closely with the South Africa-based, e-health start-up HearX by mHealth Studio, which offers an app for hearing screenings. With the help of local partners, the goal is to perform hearing tests on 10,000 children by the start of 2019.
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Benson Medical’s Version 8.1 software offers occupational health professionals features for hearing conservation, earplug fit testing, and spirometry.
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