Articles
Read CEU articles and transcripts from experts in audiology and industry.
The Vanishing Air-Bone Gap - Audiology's Dirty Little Secret
October 20, 2008
A colleague once pointed out to me that the audiogram is one of the most powerful diagnostic tests in medicine (David Zapala, Ph.D., personal communication). It influences the diagnosis and selection... Read More
Hearing Evaluation - Adults
The Naída Power Hearing Instrument Family - Field Test Results Demonstrate Better Speech Clarity - Unparalleled in its Class
October 20, 2008
The unique combination of Naída's nonlinear frequency compression (SoundRecover), PowerProcessing, and BassBoost provides an extraordinary level of audibility and clarity. In addition to the Na... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults Hearing Aids - Children Pediatrics
In-Ear Monitors: Tips of the Trade
October 13, 2008
Until recently, hard wired in-ear monitor (IEM) systems were mainly used by top touring acts; however, new, lower-cost wireless and hard-wired IEM systems are making the technology available to a b... Read More
Hearing Conservation and NIHL
There is a Change in the Air: An Update on Reimbursement Issues and Coding for 2008
October 6, 2008
Even in the world of billing and reimbursement, where fluidity and change are commonplace, 2008 has already yielded some of the most significant guideline, policy, and coding updates ever seen in the... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
New Methodologies for Determining if Two Cochlear Implants are Necessary
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September 29, 2008
The human auditory system possesses an amazing ability to accept and integrate sensory information from two ears. The ability to understand sound using two ears allows listeners to hear more effective... Read More
Cochlear Implants
How Bad is Construction Noise and What Can Be Done About It?
September 22, 2008
Construction work has historically been among the most dangerous of occupations, and injury and fatality rates for the construction industry are often several times higher than those of all industries... Read More
Hearing and Hearing Loss Hearing Conservation and NIHL
Maximizing Speech Intelligibility for Open Canal Fittings
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September 15, 2008
Determining appropriate gain for high-frequency hearing losses often requires a different fitting approach from the more common downward-sloping presbyacusic configuration. Due to normal or near-norma... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Audiologic Predictors of Real-World Hearing Aid Success: An Evidence-Based Review
September 15, 2008
For many years, audiologists have relied on the results of pre-fitting hearing tests to predict patient benefit from amplification in everyday listening situations. For the typical clinician, this usu... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Listening from the Heart: Improving Connections with our Patients
September 8, 2008
From a historical perspective, parents of children with hearing loss as well as adult patients with hearing loss have both reported their hearing healthcare professional to be insensitive and indiffer... Read More
Aural Rehabilitation and Counseling - Adults
Common Clinical Encounters; But Do We Really Know Them?
August 25, 2008
Audiologists are the "custodians" or "curators" of the ear. It is audiologists whose job it is to walk with the knowledge of how the ear works for the purposes of rehabilitation; namely, to counsel... Read More
Hearing and Hearing Loss Hearing Evaluation - Adults
Ten Million Reasons to Think About the Internet, Marketing and Your Website
August 18, 2008
The Internet currently consists of an estimated 150 million websites (Netcraft.com, 2008) containing tens of billions of web pages (Pandia.com, 2007) and this number is growing exponentially on a mont... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Vestibular Evaluation of the Pediatric Patient
August 11, 2008
Just as early identification of hearing loss has gained prominence within our profession, the early identification of vestibular disorders is also an important topic of discussion. It makes sense that... Read More
Vestibular Issues and Balance Disorders Hearing Evaluation - Children Pediatrics
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
