Despite a well-attended history, there is little agreement on the definition, diagnosis or treatment of auditory processing disorders (APDs) in 2016. APDs remain universally ill-defined and poorly understood. In this article, co-authors Beck, Clarke and Moore tackle contemporary APD issues, and more.
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Dr Chasin argues that the PCAST category of a “basic” hearing aid for mild-to-moderate hearing loss was misnamed, and should be “hearing aids for conductive hearing loss.” With a conductive hearing loss, an OTC “reading glasses approach” might work, but a sensorineural hearing loss is entirely different.
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New research findings have the potential to change the way patients with hearing loss are assessed and treated. HR Editor Karl Strom looks beyond recent findings on limitations of the audiogram to other research discoveries.
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Researchers in the University of South Florida’s Global Center for Hearing and Speech Research (GCHSR) have received a 5-year, $9 million grant from the NIH to study two unique ways to treat age-related hearing loss (ARHL).
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Signia, the new hearing aid brand from Sivantos, has unveiled primax, described as the company’s most advanced hearing aid platform to date, and the first technology clinically proven by independent studies to reduce listening effort throughout the day while providing “better than normal” hearing in challenging listening environments.
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Starkey released a new group of hearing solutions, powered by a new platform and the Acuity OS operating system. The “Made for Life” launch includes Halo 2 Made for iPhone hearing aids; Muse hearing aids, and the SoundLens Synergy wireless platform.
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At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Sony Mobile Communications rolled out a next-generation Xperia line of products with the first Xperia X series smartphones, along with ambient connected devices. Part of the rollout is the new Xperia Ear, a next-generation wireless ear-piece, or hearable.
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Marshall Chasin, AuD, looks at how the Speech Intelligibility Index, or SII, can provide information on the various speech sounds or phonemes, but does not provide information on word-level and sentence-level cues that may be very important as well, particularly for bilingual patients.
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There are a lot of things that might be changed in hearing assessment, treatment, and hearing aid fittings. Here are opinions from 5 long-time hearing care professionals who address some of their pet peeves…frequency lowering, speech in noise, the value of the audiogram and first fits, and more. Read the rants from Marshall Chasin, Laurel Christensen, Doug Beck, Calvin Staples, and Wayne Staab.
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Apple Inc has asked the FCC for permission to remove telecoil functionality requirements from its iPhone smartphones and instead recognize its MFi platform as a viable alternative to hearing aid compatibility (HAC) compliance.
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Beverly Biderman, author of the book, Wired for Sound: A Journey into Hearing, announced the birth of an opera based on her memoir of learning to hear with a cochlear implant. The new opera, “TMIE, On the Threshold of the Outside World,” premieres in English on February 25, 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal at O’culto da Ajuda.
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About 3,200 practice owners and industry guests attended the third biennial Starkey Hearing Innovations Expo in Las Vegas on January 20-23 where they were treated to information from Presidents Clinton and Bush, stars from the hit TV series Shark Tank, Magic Johnson, Ben Affleck, several bestselling authors, as well as some of the field’s best researchers.
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Northwestern University reported that Nina Kraus, PhD, a professor of neurobiology, physiology and otolaryngology, shed light on one of the brain’s most complex tasks–making sense of sound–during the Falling Walls Conference held November 8-9, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. Dr Kraus explained how she has devised a new way to measure what happens in the brain when it is processing sounds such as speech and music.
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Pivot Hearing, a Petaluma, California-based practice development partner that helps audiologists and hearing aid dispensers build sustainable private practices, announced that it has expanded both its team and the scope of services it provides to members.
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Starkey Hearing Technologies has announced it is joining forces with Bragi, maker of The Dash, to transform hearable and wearable technology. Starkey CMO Chris McCormick announced strategic partnerships with Bragi and Satjiv Chahil, Silicon Valley marketing pioneer, at the 2016 Hearing Innovation Expo, Jan. 20-24.
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