Olive Union Launches Olive Pro Hearable
Olive Pro helps customizes your hearing by “optimizing audio frequencies to your sound profile, while automatically cancelling background noises and feedback.”
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Blog: Veteran’s Day Highlights ‘Invisible Wounds’ of Military Members
Veterans Day is an important opportunity to not only show our deep gratitude to those who have served our country, but to highlight the issues that impact them the most. Sara Burdak, AuD, explains why working with veterans with hearing loss and tinnitus is a privilege.
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Marion Downs Center to Honor Vickie Thomson, PhD, as 2020 Legacy Award Recipient on November 6
Vickie has spent her entire career as a clinical audiologist working with children. From 1992 to 2019, she served as the state-level Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Coordinator for Colorado.
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Oticon Announces 25th Anniversary of DigiFocus Hearing Aid
DigiFocus could be programmed to each patient’s specific hearing needs and reprogrammed over time as the user’s hearing changed, Oticon says.
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Remote Mics, Alerting Devices, and Loop Systems: Hearing Care’s Underutilized Toolbox
How to provide your patients the opportunity to purchase important accessory items like remote mics, looping systems, and alarm/alerting devices—systems that can make a big difference in their outcomes.
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Frère Jacques, Are You Sleeping? Research Shows Lullabies In Any Language Relax Babies
Researchers at Harvard’s Music Lab have determined that American infants relaxed when played lullabies that were unfamiliar and in a foreign language.
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Qualcomm Technologies and Jacoti Partner on Wireless Earbuds
Jacoti’s technology comes with a self-administered hearing test that prompts various tones and frequencies, to establish volume thresholds for the user’s level of hearing. Two audiograms are then created, tailored specifically to the user’s right and left ears, acting as the user’s individual hearing prescription based on their level of individual hearing, according to the company’s announcement.
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Cornell Researchers Develop Earphone to Track Facial Expressions
With the ear-mounted device, called C-Face, users could express emotions to online collaborators without holding cameras in front of their faces—an especially useful communication tool as much of the world engages in remote work or learning.
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Center for Hearing and Communication to Hold 2020 Virtual Gala October 17
With a theme of Communication Without Limits, CHC Gala 2020 will honor music director, arranger, orchestrator, and composer Alex Lacamoire with CHC’s Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award. Tickets to the virtual gala are free and the show will be fully accessible to those with hearing loss through the use of a sign-language interpreter and real-time captioning.
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Widex Survey Shows Bird Song Among ‘Most Valuable Sounds’ to Participants
Surprisingly, 75% of countries polled included bird song in their top three—out of a total of 20—general sounds of value.
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University at Buffalo to Hold Virtual 2020 Northeast Audiology Conference on November 14
The University at Buffalo will hold its 2020 Northeast Audiology Conference (NEAC) via Zoom on November 14 between 9 am – 5 pm.
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‘Molecular Handshake’ Between Tip Links in Ear Essential to Hearing, Balance
We hear sounds in part because tiny filaments inside our inner ears help convert voices, music, and noises into electrical signals that are sent to our brains for processing. Now, scientists have mapped and simulated those filaments at the atomic level, a discovery that shed lights on how the inner ear works and that could help researchers learn more about how and why people lose the ability to hear.
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LRADs, Trumpets, and Loudspeakers
LRADs are loudspeaker systems on steroids and are easily capable of generating outputs on the order of 120 dBA at 10 meters. Although we don’t have very good models for noise exposure over 115 dBA, we do know that levels of 120 dBA (with peaks being up to 15 dB higher) can create acoustic trauma.
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Hearing Loss, Cleft Conditions, and Craniofacial Abnormalities
Children with cleft lip and/or cleft palate—the most common birth defect in the United States—present unique audiologic challenges that include a high incidence of otitis media with effusion (OME). Recently, the MED-EL ADHEAR system has opened up new options for these patients. Five case studies are presented here showing how this new system represents an innovative, non-surgical therapeutic option for children who are born with cleft palate.
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On Preventing Tinnitus (The Phantom Auditory Menace)
It is important to note that tinnitus is a symptom and not a diagnosis.
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