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Research Quick Takes Volume 10: An Update on OTC Hearing Aids

H. Gustav Mueller, PhD, Brian Taylor, AuD

October 17, 2025

A review of the research that has been published since the FDA approval of OTC hearing aids in October 2022.   Read More


Beyond Speech Intelligibility: Expanding the Clinician’s Role in Assessing the Individual’s Auditory Ecology

Brian Taylor, AuD

September 22, 2025

This article provides insights into how an individual’s auditory ecology can be assessed more broadly and how hearing aid selection decisions should be considered beyond improving the speech intelli...   Read More

 


20Q: Hearing Aid Adoption Rates - Unbundling for Improved Efficiency

Erin Margaret Picou, AuD, PhD, CCC-A

September 8, 2025

Explore how an unbundled hearing aid cost structure can increase clinical efficiency and improve hearing aid uptake.   Read More

  


20Q: Interpreting the Hearing Health Landscape through MarkeTrak - From Insight to Impact

Bridget Dobyan

August 11, 2025

This course focuses on the results of MarkeTrak 2025 (MT25), providing highlights of key trends and developments in the U.S. hearing aid industry. MarkeTrak collects data on consumer sentiments and be...   Read More

    


Seamless Connections: A Busy Clinician’s Guide to Wireless Technology in New Generation Hearing Aids

Brian Taylor, AuD, Eric Branda, AuD, PhD

July 7, 2025

This is a 2-part article. Part 1 reviews wireless connectivity features with an emphasis on the evolution of Bluetooth transmission in hearing aids. Part 2 reviews the wireless benefits in hearing aid...   Read More

 


Research QuickTakes Volume 9: Clinical Implementation of Self-Assessment Inventories

Brian Taylor, AuD, H. Gustav Mueller, PhD

April 28, 2025

This course reviews the clinical application of self-report inventories, both those that can be used for a needs assessment, and also those which measure outcomes related to the use of hearing aids. W...   Read More


Improving Speech Understanding in Noisy Group Conversation: 86% of Participants Performed Better with Signia Integrated Xperience Versus Key Competitor

Niels Søgaard Jensen, MSc, Barinder Samra, MSc, Sebastian Best, MSc, Cecil Wilson, MSc, Brian Taylor, AuD

April 2, 2025

This article presents a study that compared two different signal-processing approaches to improve hearing aid wearers’ ability to communicate in noisy group conversations. The study results show tha...   Read More


Improved Speech Intelligibility in Noise with Ultra-Low Delay

Jennifer Weber, AuD, CCC-A, Eric Branda, AuD, PhD

March 24, 2025

Widex introduced ZeroDelay™ technology reduce processing time and the negative comb filter effect in open fits. With the addition of new directional microphone design, the wearer can achieve the ben...   Read More


20Q: Hearing Aid Selection and Fitting - The Role of Self-Report Inventories

H. Gustav Mueller, PhD

January 13, 2025

Practical issues regarding the use of self-report inventories in the hearing aid selection and fitting process, and how these inventories can be implemented into routine practice. Specific inventories...   Read More

  


20Q: Understanding the Artificial Intelligence Revolution in Hearing Healthcare Delivery

Don Nielsen, PhD

November 11, 2024

This course introduces the student to the basics of artificial intelligence and explains AI’s role in transforming healthcare by emphasizing how it is changing Audiology. It also teaches you how AI...   Read More

 


Research QuickTakes Volume 8: Hearing Aid Fitting Toolbox v2 - Non-audiologic Considerations in the Selection and Fitting of Hearing Aids

Brian Taylor, AuD, H. Gustav Mueller, PhD

September 3, 2024

A review of the literature and a discussion of non-audiometric factors that can influence a patient's success with hearing aids. Topics include the perception of hearing problems, locus of control, li...   Read More

 


Smart Directional Design

Jennifer Weber, AuD, CCC-A, Eric Branda, AuD, PhD

July 15, 2024

This course describes a RIC hearing aid design that optimizes directional microphone orientation (angles) on the device. The results show improved directionality for speech-in-noise testing compared t...   Read More

 


20Q: Hearing Loss, Hearing Aids and Dementia - Don’t Let the Science be Hijacked by Hype

Kevin J. Munro, PhD, MSc, Piers Dawes, PhD

May 13, 2024

There is an association between hearing loss and cognitive decline, and hearing loss is also a risk factor for dementia. This course reviews the evidence that hearing loss causes dementia and treating...   Read More

   


Research QuickTakes Volume 7: Useful Clinical Nuggets Mined From Recent Hearing Aid Research

Brian Taylor, AuD, H. Gustav Mueller, PhD

May 3, 2024

This course includes short summaries of recent journal articles that have direct clinical applications. Key teaching points are explained. The summaries are from articles spanning five different areas...   Read More

 


A Comprehensive Guide to Fitting Frequency-Lowering Hearing Aids

Joshua M. Alexander, PhD, CCC-A

March 6, 2024

This article comprehensively examines the intricacies and applications of frequency-lowering technologies in hearing aids. It delves into the various methods of different manufacturers, detailing the...   Read More


Demonstrating the Real-Life Reliability of Rexton Rugged

Jackeline Sampaio, BSc, MBA, Yana Pak, MA

January 29, 2024

This article aims to raise the awareness of the importance of the durability and reliability of hearing aids. It presents a survey, in which the durability, reliability and audiological performance of...   Read More


Textbook CE Course: Music and Hearing Aids - A Clinical Approach

Marshall Chasin, AuD

January 8, 2024

Music and Hearing Aids: A Clinical Approach is a relevant guide for hearing health professionals working with hard-of-hearing musicians and enthusiasts, offering practical strategies to optimize ampli...   Read More

 


20Q: Next-Level Hearing Aid Verification

Susan Scollie, PhD

December 11, 2023

This course describes hearing aid verification procedures that use and build upon setting gain to targets. With advanced tests of specific signal processors, and headphone systems that allow real-time...   Read More

  


Maximizing the Efficacy of the Widex Sound Assist™ Remote Microphone

Francis Kuk, PhD, Petri Korhonen, MSc (tech), Christopher Slugocki, PhD, Heidi Peeters, MA

November 13, 2023

The objective of the current study was to evaluate the efficacy of the Widex Sound Assist remote microphone when used with varying distances between the talker and remote microphone device. Understand...   Read More


20Q: Optimizing Hearing Aid Processing for Listening to Music

Marshall Chasin, AuD

October 16, 2023

Music and speech have some differences which include spectral shape, intensity and “crest factors”. Most modern digital hearing aids cannot handle the more intense inputs that are characteristic o...   Read More

  


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