The action extends a moratorium preventing reductions in reimbursement for audiology and speech-language pathology services, which were scheduled for implementation on April 1, according to ASHA.
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Signia Active Pro are “specifically tailored to each individual wearer, whereas basic hearables boost all sound.” The company says “that can mean the difference between treating mild hearing loss effectively and developing more serious hearing loss.”
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Phonak announced it has won two international Red Dot Awards for excellence in product design for its Virto Black hearing aid and Roger On remote microphone.
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Frequency Therapeutics, Inc (Nasdaq: FREQ) announced the expansion of its clinical development team with the addition of Jeffery T. Lichtenhan, PhD, an expert in hearing diagnostics and measurement.
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WS Audiology announced its ranking as the “top patent applicant for conventional hearing assistive technology,” according to the 2021 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) report.
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NTID researcher and Assistant Professor Rain Bosworth and alumnus Adam Stone studied early-language knowledge in young infants and children by recording their gaze patterns as they watched a signer. The goal was to learn, just from gaze patterns alone, whether the child was from a family that used spoken language or signed language at home.
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Expressive language sampling (ELS) is a useful tool for measuring communication development in youth with Down syndrome, a new multi-site study has found.
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The Ida Institute announced that it will present the non-profit’s newest person-centered resources at AAA 2021 Virtual, this year’s virtual American Academy of Audiology conference.
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Losing some hearing or eyesight is often a part of getting older, but a new study says losing function in both senses may put you at greater risk of dementia and cognitive decline years later. The research is published in the April 7, 2021, online issue of “Neurology,” the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).
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Fitness center instructors often turn up music volumes significantly during classes sometimes loud enough to cause hearing damage based on an assumption that participants will work out more intensively when volumes are raised. A new University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) study—a summary of which appears on the UMSOM website—however, found that those who attend indoor cycling (“spinning”) classes do not lower the intensity of their workouts when the volume is reduced to a safer decibel level.
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The two-day vaccination event was made possible through close collaboration between Sonova and numerous government agencies with the shared goal of increasing access to vaccines for manufacturing workers in Northern Illinois.
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Unitron announced the introduction of Blu, an innovative new platform designed to keep up with the complexity of everyday life.
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Starkey announced its support of the American Academy of Audiology by serving as the presenting sponsor of the AAA 2021 virtual conference scheduled to take place April 14-16.
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A new study from Mechanical Engineering Professor Hod Lipson and his PhD student Boyuan Chen proves that artificial intelligence (AI) systems might actually reach higher levels of performance if they are programmed with sound files of human language rather than with numerical data labels.
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Multilingual people have trained their brains to learn languages, making it easier to acquire more new languages after mastering a second or third. In addition to demystifying the seemingly herculean genius of multilinguals, researchers say these results provide some of the first neuroscientific evidence that language skills are additive, a theory known as the cumulative‐enhancement model of language acquisition.
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