Phonak U Introduces Improv Education Via Second City
Phonak U brought together over 53 students and professionals from 36 different university programs and featured an event from Second City.
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The Power of Empathy and Compassion
Patient Care | September 2022 Hearing Review Giving voice to the unspoken pain...
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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.
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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Hearing Loss and Cognition Findings Distilled for Clinicians in ‘JOENTR’ Paper
A new paper in the ‘Journal of Otolaryngology-ENT Research’ summarizes key findings related to hearing loss and cognition for use by audiologists, ENTs, and other hearing care professionals.
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Tribute: Mary Beth Jennings, PhD, Educator and Researcher
For the past 20 years, Dr Jennings was an Associate Professor and faculty member in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western University and an Associate in the National Centre for Audiology, where her research made a large and lasting impact in adult aural rehabilitation, family-centered care and counseling, and many other areas of audiology.
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Communicating with Hard-of-Hearing Patients During COVID-19
COVID-19 can present additional obstacles to patients who are deaf or have a hearing loss.
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HHTM Releases Audiologist Hearing Aid Maintenance & Repair Survey
Hearing Health & Technology Matters (HHTM) announced the release of results of a survey of audiologists regarding their experience with hearing aid maintenance and repair over the past year (2019), prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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