Adult Hearing Loss
A sampling of some of the important research that generally did not make its way to hearing care professionals during 2006.
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Study: Earlier Use of Cochlear Implants Leads to Better Speech
“Bye-bye, bye-bye,” said one 3 and a half-year old child, born deaf but with a cochlear implant that partially restored hearing 9 months earlier. That’s the most complex speech the child uttered during a testing session that involved play with a toy train set.
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American Academy of Audiology
The American Academy of Audiology, Reston, Va, presented the 2006 Academy Honors during an evening reception at the April AAA Convention in Minneapolis. The Acade
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“Portable” Music and Its Risk to Hearing Health
As hearing care experts and “hearing loss preventionists,” it is our responsibility to consider critically the level of risk and educate our patients and the public appropriately about the use of personal music players.
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Hearing Conservation in Schools of Music: The UNT Model
The UNT model is designed to provide students with knowledge about retaining their musicians’ ears for their careers and their quality of life. The National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) has reviewed the program and an outline is being prepared for national dissemination.
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The Medical Aspects of Noise Induced Otologic Damage in Musicians
Studies show that musicians routinely face sound pressure levels (SPLs) in potentially hazardous ranges, extending up to 120-130 dBA only 3 feet from the speaker in amplified rock/pop bands, 83-112 dBA on stage in various orchestras, and 80-101 dBA on stage in jazz, blues, and country and western bands.
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ADA Moves Full Steam Ahead in Savannah
The emphasis was on Medicare reimbursement, direct access, and “the branding of audiology”at the Academy of Dispensing Audiologists annual convention.
Read MoreEthics, Accountability, and Patient-Driven Hearing Care Practices
Are professional ethics in the “eyes of the beholder”? Yes, the consumers’ eye. A perspective on ethics in private practice and how philosophy must dictate practice.
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Performance of an Automatic Adaptive Dual-Microphone ITC Digital Hearing Aid
A clinical study of an automatic adaptive directional microphone system finds exceptional benefits are available relative to hearing in noise.
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Cochlear Function in Older Infants
A study by the House Ear Institute indicates that DPOAE suppression tuning is still not adult-like by 3 months of age. Term neonates and 3-month-olds have comparable DPOAE suppression results and adults are dissimilar from these two groups. This suggests continued maturation of cochlear function in humans during the post-natal months.
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MarkeTrak VI: On the Issue of Value: Hearing Aid Benefit, Price, Satisfaction, and Repurchase Rates
For decades, the correlation between price, benefit, and satisfaction with hearing aids has been sketchy at best—until now. This study shows that benefit clearly overwhelms price as the key determinant of customer satisfaction, and technology does make a difference. Also, a best practices protocol for the selection, fitting, and verification of hearing aids is proposed.
Read MoreClassification of Audiovestibular Symptoms Related to Migraine, Part 1: Overview of Migraine
Hearing care professionals should have at least a basic understanding of migraine and its audiovestibular symptoms: vertigo, tinnitus, phonophobia, and even hearing loss present as symptoms in at least 30% of migraine patients. This article, the first of a three-part series, provides an overview
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From Boys Town to Your Town: 25 Years of Pediatric Hearing Science
Boys Town National Research Hospital recently celebrated its 25th anniversary of being a leading research center in pediatric hearing care science. HR looks at current research being conducted at the facility, which includes work on OAEs and ABRs, pediatric amplification, psychoacoustics and neurobiology, and genetic research into syndromic and non-syndromic hearing loss.
Read MoreInterdisciplinary Teamwork for Clinical Excellence: The Mayo Clinic
HR visits the Mayo Clinic and interviews the audiologists and physicians who make up one of the country’s best hearing care facilities and are leaders in clinically applied research.
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Multilingualism and Children with Cochlear Implants
Research from the House Ear Institute suggests that oral bilingual youngsters who receive cochlear implants perform similarly on speech perception tasks and make equivalent gains in language compared to their monolingual peers
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