Category: Patient Care

Patient Care

What’s In a Hearing Number? An Interview with Frank Lin, MD, PhD

Frank Lin, MD, PhD, discusses the Know Your Hearing Number campaign and why this concept can help break down barriers to hearing care.

Patient Care

Children with Developmental Disabilities Less Likely to Get Ideal Hearing Assessment

Children with developmental disabilities—1 in 6 children in the United States—are less likely to access a gold-standard hearing assessment in the first three months of hearing care, a recent paper reported.

Pediatric Care

Arizona Department of Health Services Gets Grant to Elevate Newborn Hearing Screening

The ADHS and the Arizona Commission for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing received a grant to enhance early pediatric hearing screening.

Counseling & Education

Eargym Launches Auditory Training Study, Recruiting Participants

The goal is to attract at least 10,000 participants to explore how hearing training affects skills like speech comprehension and sound localization.

Evaluation

Cognition, Audition, & Repeated Cognitive Screenings

Cognitive screenings by audiologists can lead to early detection and intervention, enhancing quality of life for older adults with hearing and cognitive issues.

Patient Fittings

Demystifying REM Verification for Non-Occluding Fittings

Does the real-ear unaided response need to be subtracted for non-occluding fittings? What about Speechmap/SPL-o-gram methods?

Pediatric Care

Chronic Childhood Ear Infections Delay Language Development

Temporary hearing loss from ear infections can lead to deficits in auditory processing and language development in children years later.