New Edition of Counseling-Infused Audiologic Care Book Available
The newly released Counseling-Infused Audiologic Care offers a practical, person-centered guide to audiologic counseling rooted in evidence-based practice.
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Signia and the Dallas Cowboys Promote Hearing Health Awareness
Signia and the Dallas Cowboys will partner to raise awareness of hearing health, educating communities on the importance of healthy hearing.
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What Is Important to Your Hearing Aid Clients… and Are They Satisfied?
What are the major drivers of customer satisfaction with hearing aids? Almost all surveys emphasize the importance of hearing speech in noise. Recent consumer surveys also indicate that the main drivers of hearing aid satisfaction are sound quality or hearing aid performance over their satisfaction with the hearing care professional (HCP) or hearing aid physical qualities. Listening situations most important to hearing aid users for speech understanding are: 1:1 conversations and group conversations in noise, soft speech in quiet, understanding speech without visual cues, and speech at a distance.
Top-5 Compensatory Behaviors of “Significant Others” with a Hearing Problem
Whose problem is the hearing loss? People with hearing impairment sometimes forget that their hearing loss affects everyone around them. Here is audiologist Richard Carmen’s list of top-5 compensatory tasks taken on by significant others who often must assume the role of translator and caregiver for a spouse or significant other with hearing loss.
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Audiologist Stresses Link Between Kidney Disease, Hearing Loss
Dr Amy Sapodin said the kidney and the ear are structurally, functionally, and biologically similar, so conditions that affect one may affect the other. Some of these issues can begin as early as in utero.
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The How and Why of Getting a “Significant Other” to the Hearing Evaluation
Getting the spouse, daughter, or partner to attend the initial hearing evaluation is almost essential, but how can hearing care professionals make this happen when it’s often difficult to get just one person to make a visit?
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Affirmative Clinical Practice with LGBTQ Patients: Creating a Welcoming and Comfortable Experience for All
Surveys suggest that 4.5% of American adults, and an even greater percentage of American youth, openly identify as LGBTQ. About one-sixth of LGBTQ adults say they have experienced healthcare discrimination. Unacknowledged implicit bias has detrimental impacts in our interactions in the clinic and the larger venues of our lives, even when we believe ourselves to be nondiscriminatory. Here are some ideas and guidelines for making your practice more welcoming and comfortable for everyone.
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Plural Publishing Releases Speech-Language Textbook
Plural Publishing announced the release of “Counseling in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology: Reconstructing Personal Narratives, Second Edition,” a book that “addresses this common concern of students and practitioners by illustrating how to integrate the concept of counseling into clinical practice.”
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Seven Sage Ways to Help Reluctant Patients with their Hearing Loss
Clinical expertise is essential, but audiologists and hearing aid specialists with a firm grasp of psychology are often the most convincing at convincing patients to accept a recommendation for a hearing aid. Here are seven sage ways to smooth their journey toward better hearing.
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BIHIMA Launches Hearing Loss Toolkit for GPs
The RGCP toolkit—sponsored by BIHIMA—was created to support GPs to consult effectively with deaf patients and provide training and support around deafness and hearing loss in primary care.
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CLEAR Launches Amptify Digital Therapeutic for Hearing Loss
ClEAR, a company that develops products for individuals with hearing loss, announced the launch of its “category-defining digital therapeutic for hearing loss that enables organizations to offer comprehensive, evidence-based hearing healthcare to their populations,” called Amptify.
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Plural Publishing Releases Auditory-Verbal Therapy Textbook
Plural Publishing says the book can also be a resource for audiologists, speech-language pathologists, teachers of children who are deaf or hard of hearing, administrators, psychologists, cochlear implant surgeons, primary care physicians, social workers, and other allied health and education professionals.
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New Paper Explores Audiologists’ Evolving Role As a ‘Hearing Loss Mitigation Counselor’
A new paper from a group of private-practice audiologists explores how the future of hearing healthcare depends upon recognizing and serving patients from a whole-person perspective—moving away from the narrow view of addressing hearing loss through amplification only, to becoming “hearing loss mitigation counselors” and treating the needs of the individual.
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Study Shows Benefits and Challenges of Telehealth
The study reported several boons for telehealth patients, including reductions in stress, missed work, the number of hospital visits, travel time, and exposure to pathogens, in addition to improving access to care with the option for out-of-state consultations.
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NAL Webinar on Hearing Aid Post-fitting to Take Place August 4
The aim of this project was to investigate the barriers and facilitators between hearing aid users and face-to-face audiological services, in the period after hearing aid fitting, and to attempt to bridge that gap using new technology.
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ASHA Supports New CDC Revised Recommendations on Mask Considerations for Those with Hearing Loss
Solid face masks and coverings reduce the effectiveness of spoken communication in numerous ways, including dampening and filtering sound, degrading speech intelligibility, and removing visual cues.
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USF Audiologists Use Face View Mask to Better Communicate with Patients
The Face View Masks have been generously made by the audiologists and their family members, audiology students, and the community organization, Tampa Gems Sertoma Club.
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Hearing Rehabilitation Foundation Awarded Cummings Grant
HRF President Geoff Plant announced that the organization is one of 130 local nonprofits to receive grants of $100,000 to $500,000 each through the Cummings Foundation’s $20 Million Grant Program. The Woburn-based organization was chosen from a total of 738 applicants during a competitive review process.
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