Improving Hearing Care for Children with Developmental Disabilities
Angela Bonino, PhD, discusses her research on why children with developmental disabilities tend not to get the best hearing assessments.
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Apple Launches Features for Those with Hearing Loss
Apple announced the introduction of software features “designed for people with mobility, vision, hearing, and cognitive disabilities.” According to Apple's announcement, “these next-generation technologies showcase Apple’s belief that accessibility is a human right and advance the company’s long history of delivering industry-leading features that make Apple products customizable for all users.”
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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.
The Tevye Phenomenon: Why One May Be Ambivalent About Using Motivational Engagement Tools
Too many hearing care professionals have a resistant or ambivalent outlook about the use of motivational engagement tools which seek to change patients’ attitudes about their hearing loss. As the fiddler Tevye can tell you, change can be good—and even necessary—for all parties involved.
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Researchers Find Two Biomarkers Involved in Speech in Noise
A pair of biomarkers of brain function—one that represents “listening effort,” and another that...
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Asymptotic Hearing Loss: When Is a Metaphor Just a Metaphor?
Like all healthcare fields where the clinician needs to explain complex concepts to the lay public, metaphors are used. In the optical field, “nearsighted” and “farsighted” are actually good metaphors despite their simplicity and academic inaccuracy. In the field of audiology, we have the description of the audiogram with the piano keyboard across the top; a good explanation, but limited in that it’s only the right hand side of the keyboard and musical notes are not pure-tones.
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Ida Institute Launches ‘My Hearing Explained’ Tool
Based on three simple terms—volume, clarity, and brain energy—the tool is a conversation guide that uses a playful visual with familiar icons to illustrate how hearing loss affects a person. The tool allows the professional to note what the patient hears, what they struggle with, and their most important communication situations.
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Re-evaluating Best Practices for Patient Needs
Audiologist Dennis Van Vliet says smart, time-saving approaches to patient care must be efficient and not sacrifice the elements of good practice, but we shouldn’t doggedly stick to a prescribed routine that calls for rote completion of procedures when they yield little of the information needed to manage patients’ needs.
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Mead Killion Adds to Humes’ Comments Regarding PSAP/OTC Findings
Mead Killion, PhD, provides his perspective on the audiograms used in two studies that look at the suitability of personal sound amplification products (PSAPS) for people with hearing loss in various delivery models.
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Interacoustics Announces Autumn 2018 Webinar Dates
The four webinars cover a wide range of topics such as gaze stabilization in VNG, oVEMP, integration of diagnostic and functional testing when seeing dizzy patients, and hearing aid selection.
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Clinical Speech Audiometry in the Age of the AERP
True listening involves more than just repeating words. Might there be useful ways to think about quantifying listening effort by taking advantage of a considerable body of research on the auditory event-related potential (AERP)? In this article, Dr James Jerger explores two different ways to think about clinical speech audiometry relative to assessing total listening effort: 1) Altering the task from repetition to decision, and 2) Evaluating the response evoked by the decision via an AERP paradigm.
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Clearwater Clinical Limited Announces Shoebox Audiometry, Version 5.0
To continue ensuring accurate results when testing is performed outside a traditional sound booth, version 5.0 adds patent-pending Response and Environment Adaptive Control Technology (REACT) to the system.
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Mythbusters’ Myth #4: I Have to Discuss the Audiogram
How often have we looked into the faces of our clients and their families as we describe the audiogram in fine detail only to find anxious, blank, or confused faces staring back at us?
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Adapting Treatment Solutions to the Individual
A problem arises if we don’t stop to think about the spectrum of individual differences that are out there in the tapestry of our patient population.
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Hearing Aids for Adult Mild-to-Moderate Hearing Loss: An Interview with Melanie Ferguson, PhD
Even though the benefits of hearing aids are widely known in our field, the fact is that there is not a plethora of high-level scientific evidence proving the efficacy of hearing aids.
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Audiometry and Its Discontents
In the future it seems likely that PTA will remain a useful tool, even if it ceases to be the “gold-standard” hearing test.
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SmartMove Cloud and Standalone Audiometers Can Now Be Integrated Online
SmartMove Cloud allows access to audiometric data using an internet connection. Password-secure audiogram and test subject data are stored securely in a HIPAA-compliant system.
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OtoPad and OtoKiosk Now Noah Certified, Otohub Announces
It is now possible to import/export data from/to your Noah, directly from the iPad, which will help seamlessly sync your Otohub Products with your Noah database, according to Otohub.
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