GN Launches Fitting Software with NAL-NL3 Prescription Formula
The new GN software makes the National Acoustic Laboratories’ next-generation formula available to hearing care professionals.
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Audioscan Launches Software Updates for Verifit2 and Axiom
Audioscan announced a new software updates for its Verifit2 and Axiom hearing instrument verification systems. Benefits include new tools for improving the efficiency and accuracy of Speechmap verification, counseling enhancements, and new BAHD devices for DSL-BCD target verification using the Verifit Skull Simulator, among other additions, according to the company.
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Audioscan Releases New Software Updates for Verifit2
According to the company, the benefits include significant enhancements to client counseling and the ability to measure Real-Ear-to-Dial Difference (REDD).
Auditdata Launches AuditdataOne Software Platform
Auditdata One integrates data captured from audiometric testing and fitting processes with the practice management software that clinics use to run their business including areas such as lead generation and customer retention activities, according to the company.
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Otohub Products Receive CE Mark Certification from BSI
Otohub’s products are said to be “clinically validated, allowing for a reliable measurement of hearing, even outside of a traditional soundbooth.”
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Addressing the Needs of Pediatric Patients and Their Parents: An Interview with Jane Madell, PhD
Jane Madell, PhD, has been a leading figure in pediatric audiology for the past 45 years. She is an audiologist, speech-language pathologist, and LSLS auditory-verbal therapist, with degrees from Emerson College (BA) and University of Wisconsin (MA, PhD). Her experience ranges from Deaf Nursery programs to leadership positions at the League for the Hard of Hearing, Long Island College Hospital, as well as Beth Israel Medical Center/New York Eye and Ear Infirmary as director of the Hearing and Learning Center and Cochlear Implant Center.
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Smartphone App to Detect Ear Infections Developed at University of Washington
Now researchers at the University of Washington have created a new smartphone app that can detect fluid behind the eardrum by simply using a piece of paper and a smartphone’s microphone and speaker.
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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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