Articles
Read CEU articles and transcripts from experts in audiology and industry.
Evaluating the Performance of Digital Hearing Aid Features: A Real-World Approach
August 4, 2008
The vast majority of hearing aids dispensed in the United States now employ digital signal processing (HIA, 2007). The rapid transition from analog to digital processing is marked by the introduction... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults Hearing Evaluation - Adults
Cerumen Management with Otomicroscopy
July 28, 2008
Cerumen removal or cerumen management (CM) has been within the audiologist's scope of practice since 1992 (ASHA, 1992). CM is necessary when excessive or impacted cerumen results in insufficient acces... Read More
Infection Control Medical and Surgical
Pediatric Hearing Aid Verification: Innovative Trends
July 21, 2008
As the sophistication and adaptivity of hearing aid technology increases, audiologists must use verification strategies that accurately and efficiently assess those aspects of amplification. Research... Read More
Hearing Aids - Children Pediatrics
The Essential Building Blocks of Hearing Aid Selection and Fitting: A Beginner's Guide to Applying Evidence-Based Thinking
July 14, 2008
Before a patient begins using hearing aids, there are several essential components of the selection and fitting process the audiologist must account for in order for the patient to achieve maximum ben... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
The Economics of Computer-Based Auditory Training
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July 7, 2008
Most audiologists agree that fitting hearing aids is just the initial step in the treatment of acquired hearing loss in adults, as there is evidence of the effectiveness of aural rehabilitation to imp... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults Aural Rehabilitation and Counseling - Adults
Negative Synergy: Hearing Loss and Aging
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June 23, 2008
Basic audiometric measures do not offer a comprehensive description of the speech understanding ability or difficulty of patients. Speech understanding is complex and complicated. Individual cognitive... Read More
Hearing and Hearing Loss
The Medical Referral Marketing Process - The Alternative to Advertising
June 16, 2008
Marketing may not be the most emphasized topic in audiology programs around the country, if it is even covered much at all. Most private practice audiologists would agree, however, that successful mar... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Gaining an Agreement from Your Patient: Things You Probably Didn't Learn in Graduate School
June 9, 2008
Most audiologists have been trained to diagnose hearing disorders and treat hearing loss with non-surgical intervention. No one would argue that audiologists are the best-equipped professionals for ex... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues Aural Rehabilitation and Counseling - Adults
Laboratory Measures of Hearing Aid Outcome: More Than Just Nostalgia for the '70s
May 12, 2008
70s Night" is popular in the United States. Just about every major sports team playing more than 25 games a season devotes one night per year to all the novelties of the 1970s. Wide collars, long hair... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Audiology and HIV: Developing Best Clinical Health Practices
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April 28, 2008
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the virus that causes AIDS (acquired immune-deficiency syndrome). Because the known means of HIV transmission, the exchange of bodily fluids, is not a typical... Read More
Infection Control Medical and Surgical Practice Management and Professional Issues
Case Study Outcomes of Hearing Impaired Listeners Using Nonlinear Frequency Compression Technology
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March 17, 2008
Providing audibility of a wide range of input levels from a broad frequency spectrum is a goal of any hearing aid fitting. For listeners with high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss, this goal can b... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Musicians and the Prevention of Hearing Loss: An Introduction
January 28, 2008
Editor's Note: Dr. Chasin has provided an excellent overview of how musicians might effectively prevent music-induced hearing loss. I would encourage you to download and read the three PDF addendums p... Read More
Hearing Conservation and NIHL
Fabry Files: Biggest Audiology News Stories of 2007
January 7, 2008
It's that time of year - the time when everyone puts out a list of the "top items" in a given category. I took the liberty of going through the Audiology Online news files and selecting what I thought... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
The Future is Here: The Otologics Fully Implantable Hearing System
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November 19, 2007
Traditional electronic hearing aids have evolved to various stages of development since their inception in the late 19th century. The continuing development of electronic amplification using technolog... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults Medical and Surgical
Transcript From the Live Session - Coding and Billing QNA
November 12, 2007
Editor's Note - The following is a partial transcript from the Coding and Billing QNA Live e-Seminar that was conducted on Audiology Online on June 27, 2007. (The recorded version is available here ).... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Assessment and Management of Minimal, Mild, and Unilateral Hearing Loss in Children
October 29, 2007
There has recently been a renewed interest in the topic of minimal and mild hearing loss in children. Although the term "minimal hearing loss" has not been standardized, the Bess, Dodd-Murphy, and Par... Read More
Hearing Aids - Children Hearing Evaluation - Children Aural Habilitation - Children Pediatrics Pediatrics Pediatrics
Self-Report Assessment of Hearing Aid Outcome - An Overview
October 22, 2007
Patients have always provided clinicians with real-world outcome assessments of their hearing aids. Watson and Tolan (1949) and Davis and Silverman (1947) both address the importance of gathering info... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults Aural Rehabilitation and Counseling - Adults
CENTRA Active - Combining Water Resistance and Rechargeable Batteries with Receiver-in-the-Canal Technology
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October 15, 2007
One of the biggest fitting challenges for hearing care professionals is handling the high expectations of hearing instrument users. With modern technology, wearers seek high speech intelligibility in... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Learning the Art to Apply the Science: Common Questions Related to Pediatric Hearing Instrument Fitting
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October 8, 2007
Pediatric audiologists rely on evidence-based procedures when fitting hearing aids to their young patients. Although the science is concrete and clinically feasible, there are some practical topics of... Read More
Hearing Aids - Children Hearing Evaluation - Children Electrophysiology Pediatrics Pediatrics
