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Hearing Aid Batteries: The Past, Present, and Future
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October 19, 2016
Modern digital hearing aids offer a huge variety of form factors, features, and wireless connectivity options that allow for individual hearing solutions. However, the price of functions like situatio... Read More
Batteries Hearing Aids - Adults
Notch Therapy: A New Approach to Tinnitus Treatment
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October 13, 2016
Tinnitus affects a staggering number of individuals. Population studies conducted in six different countries reported the incidence of prolonged tinnitus varying between 4.4 and 15.1 percent for adult... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults Tinnitus and Hyperacusis
Signia Expert Series: Speech-in-Noise Testing for Selection and Fitting of Hearing Aids: Worth the Effort?
September 30, 2016
In 2010, I conducted a survey at two audiology professional meetings, of 107 audiologists who routinely fit hearing aids. The purpose of the survey was to look at audiologists’ use of speech-in-nois... Read More
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Reducing Listening Effort via primax Hearing Technology
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June 9, 2016
When listening situations become noisier or more challenging, this is even more important. However, beyond improving speech intelligibility, another indicator of the effectiveness of hearing aid fitti... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Hearing Aid Selection and Fitting Tips Gleaned from Recent Research
May 23, 2016
The first thing I would like to talk about is the Acceptable Noise Level (ANL) test that was developed at the University of Tennessee, based on the research of Anna Nabelek dating back to 1991. For th... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Music Lovers and Hearing Aids
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February 26, 2016
Some people cannot imagine life without music - it relaxes, inspires, and for many, completes their lives. Music has a different meaning for each person, and there are individual preferences, but most... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
New Wireless, Binaural Processing Reduces Problems Associated with Wind Noise in Hearing Aids
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October 12, 2015
With today’s hearing aid technology, we have become accustomed to providing significant aided benefit for our patients in a variety of listening conditions. Speech recognition in both quiet and in b... Read More
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Interventional Audiology: When is it Time to Move Out of the Booth?
September 14, 2015
Interventional audiology means managing hearing loss in order to impact other primary concerns. Hearing loss is neither the person’s nor the other health care provider’s primary concern. As an aud... Read More
Hearing and Hearing Loss
Improving Cell Phone Listening With Hearing Aids: A New Adaptive Streaming Volume Algorithm
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June 7, 2015
In many countries today, over 90% of the adult population owns a mobile phone, and the majority of these are smart phones. Mobile phone use is not just for younger individuals — at least 75 per... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Automatic Steering: The Director of the binax Soundtrack
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June 5, 2015
IntroductionThe number of bilateral fittings has been growing continuously worldwide, according to EuroTrak 2012 and JapanTrak 2012 (Hougaard, Ruf, & Egger, 2013). This should not be unexpected, a... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Siemens Expert Series: Matching Technology & Features to Patient Needs
June 1, 2015
Editor’s Note: This text course is an edited transcript of a live webinar. Download supplemental course materials.Dr. Catherine Palmer: Today’s topic of matching technology and features is... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Speech Recognition Benefit Obtained from Binaural Beamforming Hearing Aids: Comparison to Omnidirectional and Individuals with Normal Hearing
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May 28, 2015
AbstractObjective: Clinical evaluation of the efficacy of a new hearing aid binaural beamforming algorithm; specifically, comparing the aided speech recognition of individuals with hearing loss to th... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Siemens Expert Series: Day-To-Day Hearing Aid Fittings - Clinical Nuggets from Recent Research
April 27, 2015
Dr. Mueller: Many hearing aid related articles in the audiology literature contain findings with direct clinical applications. However, keeping up with all of them is no easy task. Last year, there... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Directional Steering for Special Listening Situations: Benefit Supported by Research Evidence
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September 22, 2014
Since the introduction of the directional hearing aid over 40 years ago, this technology has proven to be one of the most successful solutions for improving speech understanding in background noise.... Read More
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Siemens Expert Series: Trainable Hearing Aids - Friend or Foe for the Clinician?
July 14, 2014
Editor’s Note: This text course is an edited transcript of a live seminar. Download supplemental course materials here.How Trainable Hearing Aids WorkMany of you recall when data logging was int... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Clinical Comparison of a Manufacturer’s Proprietary Fitting Algorithm to the NAL-NL2 Prescriptive Method
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June 16, 2014
Understandably, much of the focus related to the fitting of hearing aids centers on the core digital technology and the advanced algorithms for special signal processing. The amplified signal needs t... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Clinical Management of Tinnitus
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March 25, 2014
Editor’s Note: This text course is an edited transcript of a live seminar. Download supplemental course materials here.Leanne Powers: Over the next hour, we are going to look at past and curren... Read More
Tinnitus and Hyperacusis
Siemens Expert Series: Evidence-Based Management of Troublesome Tinnitus - Practical Guidelines for the Practicing Professional
September 30, 2013
Editor’s Note: This text course is an edited transcript of a live webinar. Download supplemental course materials.Dr. James Hall: I have a policy that I have maintained for the past 40 years: I... Read More
Tinnitus and Hyperacusis
Siemens Expert Series: Normal Loudness Perception: Is it Important, Is it Achievable?
July 29, 2013
It is nice to be back in the Siemens Seminar Series talking about a topic that I find interesting, normal loudness perception. I am approaching this from all three areas in which I work - teaching at... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults VA Selections
Real World Assessment of Auditory Localization Using Hearing Aids
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April 22, 2013
Auditory localization has been researched for hundreds of years, in both animals and humans. One of the most widely studied animals is the barn owl, as this species is known for its exceptional local... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
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