Captioning technology is evolving rapidly, but healthcare adoption has not kept pace. Explore how real-time captions can improve communication, comprehension, and patient participation for people with hearing loss.
Shannon Switzer, a Doctor of Audiology and a musician, has joined Sensaphonics as the Director of the Musicians’ Hearing Clinic, overseeing clinic operations and serving as the primary audiologist.
A national sympositum, “Connecting the Dots: Building Partnerships to Improve Cognitive Health,” attracted respected voices in medicine, science, and audiology to address what they deem an urgent need for transformation in healthcare.
The Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA) will kick off its annual convention online on Friday morning, October 16. This year’s virtual event focuses on “Design Thinking” and offers a wide variety of exceptional interactive feature presentations, keynotes, expert panels, live workshops, on-demand webinars, and an industry showcase.
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The agreement will help give improved access to audiology and speech-language pathology providers, telehealth options, and better portability for military spouses, among other things.
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Widex has announced the availability of its new WIDEX MOMENT™ hearing aid, which is designed to offer the industry’s most natural hearing experience by combining the latest in AI and machine learning with two ultra-fast signal pathways.
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During a crisis, it’s more important than ever that people stay connected. Hearing healthcare professionals must adapt to a world with Covid-19. They must begin to provide care in a different, but responsible, way.
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Hearing healthcare professionals across the country are in a tough spot regarding how they should operate their practices during the punishing Covid-19 pandemic. David Smriga provides his perspectives and advice about the question, “Is hearing healthcare an ‘essential service’?”
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The updates bring fully rewritten chapters, updated references, and access to accompanying PluralPlus companion websites with content such as videos and figures to supplement the texts.
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New research shows that after wearing professionally fit quality hearing aids, a patient’s brain may “re-organize” its auditory processing centers back towards its original state prior to the hearing loss—with corresponding gains in auditory speech perception abilities and improvements in global cognitive function, executive function, processing speed, and visual working memory performance. Anu Sharma discusses the research findings with Douglas Beck.
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Here is a review of some of the top news items that influenced the hearing healthcare field in 2019.
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This event is suitable for audiologists and other healthcare professionals who are involved in assessment and/or management of patients with tinnitus and hyperacusis/misophonia. This conference brings together studies of audiology, mental health, neuroscience, psychoacoustics, neurology, and other areas.
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“Our results suggest that tinnitus will likely get louder, but not by very much,” write Hashir Aazh, PhD, and Richard Salvi, PhD, in their recent study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology which shows only a weak association between tinnitus loudness and puretone average (PTA) thresholds.
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About 160 private practice professionals attended the 2019 AudBoss Summit, said to be one of the field’s largest learning events dedicated solely to private practice audiologist owners, on October 2-5 at the Hilton Naples in Naples, Fla.
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An introduction to the October 2019 special edition of The Hearing Review about unilateral hearing loss (UHL) in its many forms.
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The transition from a traditional, paternalistic, and provider-focused system to a model that considers patients as active partners in their own care is the next big challenge. Ida Institute Managing Director Lise Lotte Bundesen explains how this might be set into action in hearing healthcare.
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The Academy of Doctors of Audiology will hold its 2019 AuDACITY Convention on November 14-16 at the Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center in National Harbor, Md. This year’s theme, “Move the Needle,” relects the need for practices to respond to the hearing health needs of older adults with quality hearing healthcare.
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For some years, audiology has had a close relationship with optometry, with an increasing number of optical practices electing to offer their patients audiology services as a part of their clinical offering.
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