Why Aural Rehabilitation Belongs in Every Hearing Aid Fitting
Devices give patients access to sound. Aural rehabilitation helps them understand it. This guide...
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Why Establishing Standards of Care is Critical for Audiologists
In this Hearing Horizons podcast, APSO President Laura Pratesi, AuD, discusses the organization's mission to define minimum standards of care.
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Duncan Floyd on Masking—The Optimized Method
The Hearing Review is joined by audiologist Duncan Floyd to talk about why the Optimized Method of masking can be so helpful in audiometry.
How Is That Number Determined?
Of the many hearing aid parameters that optimize a hearing aid for music, the peak input limiting level is the most important. If the level is too low, front-end distortion will occur related to the higher levels associated with music, and no amount of software processing (that occurs later in the hearing aid circuitry) can resolve this.
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Why General Chips Are the Next Big Leap in Hearing Device Technology
Find out why Ben Sun left a life in the big tech to design and launch a hearing aid product called Orka One. Ben will be speaking with us about the role of a chip inside a hearing aid and how technology innovates the hearing aid performance and enhances the user experience.
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Bluetooth LE, Audio LE and the Future of Sound Integration
LE Bluetooth took shape in 2010 and eventually an audio streaming solution called LE Audio was built on top of the LE Bluetooth platform. The technology is progressing and the possibilities are tantalizing. The “guts” of LE Audio is software called Low Complexity Communication Codec or LC-3 for short.
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Why Calibration Is Critical With Automated Testing
Recently, Grason-Stadler hosted a discussion between Dr. James W. Hall III and Dr. Robert Margolis about the current audiology landscape. They discussed the patient-provider gap that exists and the urgent need for a solution. In this transcribed excerpt of the interview, they address the importance of calibrated and validated hearing test results and how that affects automated testing.
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How to Reduce Workplace Communication Barriers for People with Hearing Loss in a COVID-Altered Environment
The workplace changed drastically during the COVID-19 pandemic, and health and safety policies such as mask-wearing, social distancing, virtual meetings, and the increasing use of telemedicine present new challenges to the deaf and hard of hearing.
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How To Make The Cost Conversation Easier
Learn how you may help overcome the barriers of cost concerns by utilizing pre-qualification and digital tools, like custom link and QR codes, to help innovate your practice.
Read MoreReSound One: Hear Like No Other
ReSound ONE: an entirely new class of hearing aids that offers a truly individualized hearing experience and the best sound quality for every user
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HR Podcast: Update from Hearing Loss Association of America Executive Director Barbara Kelley
The HLAA has been busy working with the FDA, FTC, FCC, HHS, NIDCD, CTA, and the various professional and industry groups in hearing healthcare on virtually everything related to hearing and access issues.
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OTC Hearing Aids and How FDA Rules Might Change Hearing Care, with Dr Tom Powers
Long-time hearing industry audiologist Thomas Powers, PhD, and Hearing Review Editor Karl Strom talk about four of the most important parts of the proposed OTC hearing aid regulations. Dr Powers also provides his advice about how hearing care practices and their staff members might prepare for the advent of OTC hearing aids.
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The Special Olympics Needs Your Hearing Help! A Podcast Interview with Dr Timothy Shriver and Brandon Sawalich
Most people are unaware that the vast majority of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities around the world are denied the healthcare services they need.
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Journey Into the Dead Zone, with Brian C.J. Moore, PhD
This “oldie but goodie” podcast features an introduction to cochlear dead zones by perhaps the world’s foremost authority on the subject. Dr Moore describes how these regions might be created, possible tell-tale signs and tip-offs for presenting in a patient, and their implications for treatment of hearing loss and hearing aid fittings.
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Starkey Launches ‘Starkey Sound Bites’ Podcast
Starkey announced the launch of a new podcast, Starkey Sound Bites. Hosted by Starkey Chief Innovation Officer Dave Fabry, PhD, the podcast will shine a light on hearing loss, new research about how it is connected to overall health and wellness, as well as new innovations that make it easier for people to “hear better, so they can live better.”
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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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Plural Releases 3rd Edition of Clinical Audiology Textbook
Plural Publishing announced the release of the third edition of “Clinical Audiology: An Introduction,” described as “a comprehensive enhancement of all the introductory material available in previous editions of this stimulating textbook.”
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How AI is Transforming Hearing Care – Free White Paper Download
AI has transformed some industries overnight. Now – AI has come for hearing aids and audiology. Meet Whisper, the new hearing system that gets better over time. Traditional hearing aids don’t upgrade themselves.
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