BIHIMA Endorses ‘Lancet’ Study Recommending Immediate Action for Dementia Prevention
The study reports that eliminating hearing loss is highly relevant to reducing new cases of dementia.
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Author: Stefani Kim
DMU Leicester Students Conduct Hearing Tests at 2017 Special Olympics Great Britain
Around 2,600 athletes with learning disabilities from across England, Scotland, and Wales are competing in sports including football, judo, sailing, powerlifting, equestrianism, and tennis.
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5th Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival ‘Deaf United Louder’ to Take Place August 11-13
The Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival (BAIDDF) is an annual event produced by Urban Jazz Dance Company that consists of performances and workshops that highlight the important contributions that deaf and hard-of-hearing (HoH) artists make to the community.
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RIT/NTID Receives $2.6 Million NIDCD Grant to Study Language Outcomes in Young Deaf Adults
The research will reportedly be one of the first large-scale studies to examine spoken language outcomes in young deaf adults who received their implants in childhood and now are enrolled at RIT/NTID.
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Study Compares State-By-State Hearing Aid Coverage for Medicaid Patients
Lead author Michelle Arnold, AuD, CCC-A, of the University of South Florida Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, used six criteria to rank Medicaid’s coverage policies in older adult beneficiaries.
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Starkey Hearing Technologies Appoints Achin Bhowmik as CTO and EVP, Engineering
Prior to joining Starkey, Bhowmik was vice president and general manager of the Perceptual Computing Group at Intel Corporation, responsible for R&D, engineering, operations, and businesses in the areas of 3D sensing and interactive computing systems, computer vision and artificial intelligence, autonomous robots and drones, and immersive virtual and merged reality devices.
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Bank of Ireland Launches Instructional Videos with Sign Language Translation on its Website
ISL translation was conducted for the most popular “How-To” customer advice videos on the Bank of Ireland website —Amending a Standing Order; Changing your Address and Applying for a Product Online using 365 & Mobile App, among others.
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Columbia Engineering Researchers Make Progress Toward Development of Cognitively-Controlled Hearing Aids
A cognitive hearing aid that constantly monitors the brain activity of the subject to determine whether the subject is conversing with a specific speaker in the environment would be a dream come true.
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ADM Tronics’ Tinnitus Technology Featured in OneMedMarket Newsletter
Both ADM’s technologies for the tinnitus marketplace, Tinnitus Shield and Aurex-3, are described in the article.
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Children with Hearing Loss Benefit from Early Interventions, ‘Pediatrics’ Study Says
AAP Early Hearing Detection and Intervention guidelines call for screening by 1 month of age, diagnosis of hearing loss by 3 months of age, and early intervention services by 6 months.
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US Senate Passes OTC Hearing Aid Act as Part of FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017
The US Senate passed the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017—which includes the Over-the-Counter (OTC) Hearing Aid Act of 2017—by a vote of 94-1, on August 3.
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Listen AS Launches Mobile Ears iOS App
Mobile Ears is a free iOS app designed to help people with mild to medium hearing loss to hear clear speech and sound while watching TV, at meetings, and conferences with just their phone and earbuds.
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Some PSAPs Show Improvements in Hearing Similar to Hearing Aids, Says JAMA Study
Three of the PSAPs were associated with improvements in speech understanding that were similar to results obtained with the hearing aid; one demonstrated little improvement; and speech understanding was worse with one PSAP.
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Eric Hancock Joins Widex USA as Regional Sales Manager, Northern California
Hancock brings a vast industry experience on the manufacturing side, in both hearing aid and equipment sales, having worked as a territory sales manager.
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Clarity Launches Clarity Chat, a Behind-the-Ear PSAP
Available as a single unit or a pair, Clarity Chat™ is an affordable and easy-to-use sound amplifier designed for someone who wants to boost the sounds of their life so they can experience every moment loud and clear.
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