The Therapeutic Use of Humor in Audiology
A psychologist explores how humor—when used thoughtfully—can help hearing care professionals connect with patients and better meet their needs.
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Celebrating 35 Years of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Educating audiology patients about their rights to accessibility under ADA could be a great opportunity to build trust and develop a deeper connection with them over time.
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New Online Course Helps Older Adults with Hearing and Vision Loss
Helen Keller Services unveiled an online course to help older adults adapt to combined hearing and vision loss with the help of technology.
AHead Simulations Launches New Audio CARL and Platform
Based on more than four years of user feedback and requests, the new Audio CARL and CARL platform help “expand the use cases and value in which the CARL manikins can provide to hands-on education, research, and development of hearing technologies, and the provision of hearing aids in hearing clinics, all while fitting in better with clinical workflows,” according to the company’s announcement.
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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.
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40 Years of Consumer Comments: Interactions Between Users and the Hearing Care Professionals
It takes two to tango. A lot has changed during 40 years of hearing aid evolution. However, the role of the hearing care professional—as interpreter, counselor, and hearing aid fitter—has remained a vital part of the process while evolving to encompass new technologies, from smartphones to teleaudiology.
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Plural Releases ‘Hearing Science Fundamentals, 2nd Ed’
The text is divided into four clear sections to cover everything from the physics of sound to the anatomy and physiology of the auditory pathway and beyond.
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Patient-centric Follow-up: The Key Differentiator in Hearing Healthcare
As patient-centric care gains steam in both general medicine and hearing health—while being juxtaposed by new OTC and DIY hearing solutions—a renewed focus on follow-up services is crucial. This special report looks at follow-up AR protocols and perspectives, and includes perspectives from Nancy Tye-Murray, Brian Taylor, Cherilee Rutherford, Ron Leavitt, Susanna Løve, Dave Blanchard, and more.
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Ida Institute Launches Course on ‘Child-centered Care’
The free four-part course explains the key cognitive skills developed as children age, techniques for communicating with pediatric clients, and which Ida tools will make the communication more fun and effective. The material supports hearing care professionals in enabling children to contribute in ways that make them a meaningful part of their care.
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Plural Releases New Remote Care Textbook by Brian Taylor, AuD
Plural Publishing announced the release of “Relationship-Centered Consultation Skills for Audiologists: Remote and In-Person Care” by Brian Taylor, a how-to guide for clinicians who want to provide evidence-based, holistic care to persons with hearing loss.
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Altruistic Marketing: A Win-Win Approach to Success by Providing Hospice Care Services
Hearing care professionals are in a unique positon to make a life (and death) altering impact for the terminally ill while simultaneously positioning their practices for future success. The symbiotic character of altruistic marketing through services provided to hospice and palliative care agencies provides a unique opportunity to positively impact the communication and emotional needs of families while providing significant positive marketing benefits to practitioners.
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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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