Lexie Hearing’s New OTC Hearing Aid Includes In-App Hearing Test
The optional in-app hearing test provides wearers with recommended hearing aid settings tailored to their unique hearing profile.
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Grason-Stadler Launches CEU Webinar Series
Grason-Stadler announces a three-part CEU webinar series around the latest advancements in testing with the release of the Audera Pro.
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HearX to Release Beta Version of HearScope AI Classification Feature
The hearScope AI image classification feature helps enable health practitioners to receive instantaneous classification results on images taken by the digital otoscope.
Boys Town Study Shows Improved Speech Understanding with Oticon OSN
The ability of OSN to preserve speech coming from different locations allows access to other talkers in the background, which is said to be fundamental to incidental learning in school-age children.
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Oticon Introduces Opn Play
Oticon announces Opn Play, a new child-friendly hearing solution, that is said to “improve speech understanding in simple and complex listening environments and provides access to multiple speakers, without reducing environmental sounds important to incidental learning and safety.”
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Ida Institute’s ‘My World’ Tool Now Available as Free App for Tablets
The easy-to-use app is said to allow children to recreate their day and talk about how they communicate in different environments—at home, on the playground, or in the classroom–by populating the spaces with friends, family, and the things they enjoy.
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Pediatric Amplification, Noise Management, and Incidental Learning
Should noise reduction algorithms be used in pediatric hearing aid fittings? Here is an examination of the rationale and arguments from the literature which generally support the use of advanced noise-reduction techniques and technologies for children.
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Oticon Launches KIPA Website for Pediatric Audiologists, Clinicians, and Researchers
The new website aims to facilitate participation and collaboration by pediatric audiologists around the world on current and future pediatric audiology projects and studies.
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Pediatric Heart Surgery May Increase Risk for Hearing Loss, Language Problems
In a single-center group of 348 preschoolers who survived cardiac surgery, researchers found hearing loss in about 21 percent, a rate 20 times higher than is found in the general population, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) announced.
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Benson Medical Instruments Releases Updated Occupational Health Software
Benson Medical’s Version 8.1 software offers occupational health professionals features for hearing conservation, earplug fit testing, and spirometry.
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InnerScope Hearing Technologies Enters into LOI with Eltima for FlexiHub Software
The LOI is designed to give InnerScope a universal tele-audiology solution for professionals to remotely program hearing aid devices, according to the announcement.
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Ear Foundation Releases Report Detailing Benefits of Ida Institute’s ‘My World’ Pediatric Counseling Tool
My World uses play theory to help children describe their experiences with hearing loss. The tool is designed as a game board and allows children to act out their days with a variety of characters, locations, and accessories.
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Pediatric Patient Journey Conference Focuses on Collaborative Approach to Hearing Healthcare
More than 100 hearing care professionals from across the US participated in a collaborative pediatric conference co-sponsored by Oticon Pediatrics, Oticon Medical, Interacoustics, and Hearing Screening Associates, held November 3-5 in Glenview, Ill.
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Implementing Family-Centered Care in Early Intervention for Children with Hearing Loss: Engaging Parents with a Question Prompt List (QPL)
The authors have developed a Question Prompt List (QPL) that can be used by audiologists to encourage families to engage in both fact-based and adjustment-based questions during audiology appointments. The impetus for developing this QPL was to facilitate more family-centered practices in early intervention.
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Phonak Holds Pediatric Unilateral Hearing Loss Conference October 23-24
The gathering brings together pediatric audiology experts, investigators, and clinicians for two days of presentations, discussions, and panels.
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Issues in Pediatric Amplification, Auditory Access, and More: An Interview with Ryan McCreery, PhD
With the publication of a new thought-provoking book and a constant stream of high-quality research coming from Ryan M. McCreery, PhD, and his colleagues at Boys Town National Research Hospital, we thought this would be a good opportunity to catch up with Dr McCreery.
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An Integrated REM System with Proven Accuracy and Reliability
A study that assesses both the test-retest repeatability and the precision (matching accuracy) of the new Phonak TargetMatch system.
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Auditdata A/S Acquires Simply Hearing Software
The office management systems of Auditdata and Simply Hearing Software, Strato and Aurora, will mutually benefit from the features of each other and the experiences of their respective teams, according to the company’s announcement.
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