Articles
Read CEU articles and transcripts from experts in audiology and industry.
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
Applying Expansion in Hearing Aid Fittings: Subjective and Objective Findings
October 1, 2007
One goal of wide-dynamic-range compression (WDRC) hearing instruments is to improve the audibility of low-level, high-frequency speech cues necessary for accurate speech understanding (Johnson, 1993;... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Indiana Jones & the Lost of Art of Tuning Fork Testing
September 24, 2007
As in an Indiana Jones adventure, we search for the lost art of tuning fork testing like that used before the advent of modern electronic audiometers, impedance audiometry, real-ear measurement system... Read More
Hearing Evaluation - Adults Hearing and Hearing Loss
Changes in Hearing Aid Benefit Over Time: An Evidence-Based Review
September 17, 2007
Exactly how long a hearing aid user must wait to be sure amplification is providing "benefit" in everyday listening situations remains unclear. Audiologists have wrestled with the question of hearing... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults Aural Rehabilitation and Counseling - Adults
Hearing Assistance Technology: Integrating HATs into Clinical Practice
September 10, 2007
Approximately 30 million people in the United States report having hearing difficulty (NIDCD, 2007), representing 10% of the current population of the United States (Kochkin, 1999). While amplificatio... Read More
Assistive Devices Hearing Aids - Adults
Audiologists and the Americans with Disabilities Act: What you Need to Know
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August 27, 2007
As health care professionals, we have an obligation to educate our patients regarding their hearing loss and a proper plan of habilitation. To this end, we generally think of tangible assistive device... Read More
Hearing and Hearing Loss Aural Rehabilitation and Counseling - Adults
New Technology and Spatial Resolution
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August 20, 2007
We live in a complex world. We are constantly bombarded by stimulation. As humans, we have an amazing ability to sort through this onslaught and automatically and effortlessly make sense of the consta... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Pediatric Audiological Diagnosis and Amplification
August 6, 2007
Infant hearing loss is being diagnosed at an ever-decreasing age due to universal newborn hearing screening programs. It is important to have a careful plan for rapid, accurate, and comprehensive audi... Read More
Aural Habilitation - Children Hearing Aids - Children Pediatrics Pediatrics
An Exploration of Psychological & Physiological Causes for Failure to Fit
July 30, 2007
Throughout the literature, one finds almost unanimous consensus over the major psychological and psychosocial deterrents for hearing impaired consumers' failure to seek help for their hearing and comm... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Protocols for Fitting Infants and Young Children with Amplification
June 25, 2007
With the advancements in universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS), identifying infants with hearing loss has become relatively easy to implement. Unfortunately, how to proceed with amplification aft... Read More
Hearing Aids - Children Pediatrics
Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) Part IV: Strategic Integration—IMC in Action
June 11, 2007
Figure 1. The IMC process is circular and data driven, using database information to link consistent and continuously refined messaging and dialog with target markets in an accountable manner. IMC can... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Audiology and Quality of Life: Is there a Connection?
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June 4, 2007
The word "quality" is one that is often used but not thoroughly understood. Quality can imply that a product or service possesses some positive characteristic that distinguishes it from its competitor... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults Practice Management and Professional Issues
Connecting Families to the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Process
May 21, 2007
Early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) is the process of identifying infants at birth, or shortly thereafter, who have a hearing loss. It is the provision of appropriate intervention services... Read More
Hearing Aids - Children Aural Habilitation - Children Pediatrics Pediatrics
APD Evaluation to Therapy: The Buffalo Model
May 14, 2007
The Buffalo Model is a conceptualization of auditory processing disorders (APD) based on the results of a three-test battery. Each test takes a different look at auditory processing and together they... Read More
Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)
Predicting Real World Hearing Aid Benefit with Speech Audiometry: An Evidence-Based Review
May 7, 2007
The way in which audiology is practiced is changing. In the past, it was often adequate to base clinical decisions on intuition and data collected in laboratories rather than the real world. Today, a... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults Practice Management and Professional Issues
Translating Compression Research Into Clinical Decisions
April 30, 2007
Amplitude compression was proposed as an amplification strategy over 50 years ago, and has been widely used in hearing aids for 15 years (Dreschler, 1992). Nearly 300 research studies have been publis... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
The Fixation Suppression Test in ENG Evaluation
April 9, 2007
One of the key features of vestibular nystagmus is that in normal individuals, the nystagmus intensity is strongly reduced by visual fixation. Some patients however, are unable to sufficiently suppres... Read More
Vestibular Issues and Balance Disorders Electrophysiology
