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20Q: Genetics and Hearing Health - The Role of the Audiologist
May 12, 2025
This course emphasizes the significant impact of genetics on hearing ability and provides and overview of genes associated with hearing loss. It highlights the importance of genetic counseling and tes... Read More
20Q with Gus Mueller Counseling Hearing and Hearing Loss
20Q: Listening Effort – Understanding its Role in Audiology and Patients' Lives
March 10, 2025
The effort of listening can be a major barrier to participating in work and social activities. This article discusses what we have learned about effort in the lab and how it applies to clinical practi... Read More
20Q with Gus Mueller Hearing and Hearing Loss
20Q: Hearing Aid Selection and Fitting - The Role of Self-Report Inventories
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 with Gus Mueller Hearing Aids - Adults Hearing and Hearing Loss
Social Determinants of Health and Audiology
October 21, 2024
This course covers integrating social determinants of health (SDOH) in audiology, focusing on how socioeconomic, educational, environmental, and access factors impact hearing. Participants learn to ad... Read More
Cultural Competence Hearing and Hearing Loss Practice Management and Professional Issues
20Q: What Exactly is “Normal” Hearing?
October 7, 2024
This course provides an overview of rationale for revising nomenclature for describing hearing loss. Read More
20Q with Gus Mueller Hearing and Hearing Loss
20Q: Interventional Audiology - Improving Patient Outcomes
September 9, 2024
This article reviews the necessary components of an interventional audiology program. Tips for the provision of effective care are provided. Read More
20Q with Gus Mueller Hearing and Hearing Loss Hearing Evaluation - Adults
Smart Directional Design
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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
Hearing Aids - Adults Hearing and Hearing Loss
20Q: Hearing Loss, Hearing Aids and Dementia - Don’t Let the Science be Hijacked by Hype
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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
20Q with Gus Mueller Geriatrics & Aging Hearing Aids - Adults Hearing and Hearing Loss
20Q: Changes to Auditory Processing and Cognition During Normal Aging – Should it Affect Hearing Aid Programming? Part 2 – Programming Hearing Aids for Older Adults
February 1, 2024
Part 1 discussed how a decline in some elements of cognition and auditory processing alters speech perception during normal aging. This course considers how hearing aids may help or hinder speech perc... Read More
20Q with Gus Mueller Geriatrics & Aging Hearing and Hearing Loss
20Q: Changes to Auditory Processing and Cognition During Normal Aging – Should it Affect Hearing Aid Programming? Part 1 – Changes Associated with Normal Aging
January 8, 2024
Many aspects of cognition and auditory processing decline with normal aging, and this makes it difficult to hear in challenging situations, even without the additional problems caused by peripheral he... Read More
20Q with Gus Mueller Geriatrics & Aging Hearing and Hearing Loss
20Q: Next-Level Hearing Aid Verification
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
20Q with Gus Mueller Hearing Aids - Adults Hearing and Hearing Loss
20Q: Speech-in-Noise Testing - Too Useful to be Ignored!
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November 6, 2023
This course reviews how speech-in-noise (SIN) testing can be routinely used in the clinical setting, both for identifying functional capabilities, and for the selection and fitting of hearing aids. Sp... Read More
20Q with Gus Mueller Hearing and Hearing Loss Hearing Evaluation - Adults
20Q: Optimizing Hearing Aid Processing for Listening to Music
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
20Q with Gus Mueller Hearing Aids - Adults Hearing and Hearing Loss
How AI-Driven Hearing Aid Features and Fresh Approaches to Counseling Can Promote Better Outcomes: Part 2, Towards Empowered Follow-up Care
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October 2, 2023
This article examines how AI-driven features in new generation hearing aids when combined with targeted person-centered counseling and other systematic approaches to follow-up care can speed the weare... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults Hearing and Hearing Loss
Research QuickTakes Volume 6 (Pt. 2): Hearing Aid Fitting Toolbox—Verification and Validation
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September 11, 2023
This course describes procedures associated with the varication and validation of the hearing aid fitting, including probe-mic assessment, sound field threshold testing and self-assessment outcome mea... Read More
Assistive Devices Hearing Aids - Adults Hearing and Hearing Loss
Research QuickTakes Volume 6 (Pt. 1): Hearing Aid Fitting Toolbox —Important Pre-Fitting Measures
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September 11, 2023
Prior to the actual fitting of the hearing aid, there are several pre-fitting measures that must be conducted. In this article, we review four of these measures, and provide step-by-step guidance rega... Read More
Assistive Devices Hearing Aids - Adults Hearing and Hearing Loss
20Q: Social and Emotional Impacts of Hearing Loss—Empowering Audiologists
September 11, 2023
This course details research describing how hearing loss can affect a person's social and emotional well-being and how audiology services can better meet the social and emotional needs of their client... Read More
20Q with Gus Mueller Hearing and Hearing Loss Practice Management and Professional Issues
Research QuickTakes Volume 5: OTC Hearing Aids—Pros, Cons, and Implementation Strategies
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September 5, 2023
In the past year, the long-awaited OTC hearing aid category has arrived. In this article, we review the background of the regulation, some issue to consider regarding fitting optimization, and practic... Read More
Assistive Devices Hearing Aids - Adults Hearing and Hearing Loss
Research QuickTakes Volume 4: Potential Hearing Aid Fitting Misconceptions
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August 25, 2023
In the everyday practice of hearing aid fitting, audiologists sometimes develop misconceptions about how hearing aids work, or different fitting practices. We reviewed a few of them in this article an... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults Hearing and Hearing Loss
Research QuickTakes Volume 3: Optimizing the Hearing Aid Fitting Process
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August 23, 2023
This course reviews several issues related to following best practice when fitting hearing aids. Topics discussed include patient-centered care, speech in noise testing, loudness measures, output veri... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults Hearing and Hearing Loss
