Extending Hearing Healthcare: Tele-audiology
If applied properly, the benefits of tele-audiology may be a saving grace for our profession.
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Apple Confirms “Made for iPhone” Hearing Aid Compatibility
In Apple’s latest list of new features for the just released “iOS6” operating system for iPhones and iPads, Apple has confirmed earlier reports that iOS6 has greater support for hearing aids designated as “Made for iPhone.”
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Manufacturers’ Preview of Products – Fall 2012 Edition
We asked manufacturers about the latest product offerings that they will be featuring this fall.
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HLAA Award winners, a new hearing research consortium, and phase II of a clinical trial for a new tinnitus treatment
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TOP NEWS and HEADLINES Six Hearing Aid Manufacturers Form Hearing Research Consortium Patients Enrolled for Auris Medical’s Phase II Trial of Tinnitus Treatment Zebra Fish May Help Discover Cause of Fraser Syndrome Hearing L
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Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder: A Case Study
When fitting compression circuitry hearing aids to patients with ANSD, slowing down the compression attack/ release time may have a positive impact on speech production.
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Van Vliet’s Final Word: Patient Privacy vs Patient Care and Safety
I have a good friend whose wife has a severe hearing loss. Other members of her immediate family are affected as well. Her severe loss is one of those that we would expect to benefit greatly from amplification, but she has a very poor success rat
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What’s New About NAL-NL2?
A concise summary of some of the key changes to the ubiquitous NAL fitting algorithm.
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Expert Roundtable: Issues in Audition, Cognition, and Amplification
We Hear with Our Brains!By Douglas L. Beck, AuD (moderator/guest-editor)Cognitive Load and AmplificationBy Brent Edwards, PhDHigher-level Processing and Aided Speech-Understanding in Older AdultsBy Larry E. Humes, PhDThe Cognitive Part of Speech Reco
Read MoreOregon’s Pacific University School of Audiology Receives CAA Accreditation
Pacific University’s new Doctor of Audiology degree program has received accreditation by the Council on Academic Accreditation (CAA) in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. The 3-year AuD program will begin this fall in Hillsboro, Ore, with 23 students.
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Employing the “Talk and Tweak Method” When Faced with Vague Sound Quality Complaints
Dennis Van Vliet, AuD, discusses the age-old “Talk and Tweak” method for achieving sound quality
Read MoreSix Hearing Aid Manufacturers Form Hearing Research Consortium
The hearing industry’s largest manufacturers have collaborated to create the Hearing Industry Research Consortium (IRC). The IRC’s mission is reportedly to develop and direct a non-competitive, mutually agreed upon research agenda that is designed to benefit the industry, as well as hearing professionals and end users.
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Van Vliet’s Final Word: Considerations for Patients with Cognitive Deficits
Considerations for Patients with Cognitive Deficits
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Van Vliet’s Final Word – How do We Establish a Rapport that Communicates our Competence and Purpose?
Van Vliet’s Final Word – How do We Establish a Rapport that Communicates our Competence and Purpose?
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3D Digital Ear Scanners Steal the Show at AAA
Although most hearing industry conventions are usually dominated by news of a new hearing aid, the big talk of the American Academy of Audiology’s AudiologyNOW! in Boston was the introduction of 3D digital ear scanners. The idea that one d
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