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Read CEU articles and transcripts from experts in audiology and industry.
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
Cerumen Management: Mechanical Removal
March 26, 2007
Varying degrees of cerumen occlusion pose challenges in the delivery of diagnostic or rehabilitative services. Routine audiological procedures require the presence of a relatively clear external audit... Read More
Infection Control Medical and Surgical
Making Use of Systematic Reviews: EBP for the Busy Clinician
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March 19, 2007
More than 10 years ago, Bess (1995) highlighted the need for audiologists to engage in Evidence-Based Practice (EBP), pointing out that the time had passed when few questioned the audiologist's clinic... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) Part III: Acquiring and Retaining Customers
March 12, 2007
Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) focuses on building brand by creating databases that continuously monitor and respond to market needs as relationships are fostered between practices and cust... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Acceptable Noise Level (ANL): Research and Current Application
February 19, 2007
In 1991, Nabelek, Tucker, and Letowski introduced a procedure for determining acceptable noise intensities while listening to speech. This procedure has come to be known as acceptable noise level (ANL... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Music as an Input to a Hearing Aid
February 12, 2007
Music as an input to a hearing aid poses some interesting problems both for the hearing aid design engineer and for the hearing health-care professional. The following discussion equally concerns the... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Law, Financial Arrangements, and Implications for Audiology
February 5, 2007
The legal system is constantly evolving. With greater scrutiny being placed upon health care providers, conflict of interest, fraud, and abuse investigations are becoming more common. In particular, d... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Impact of Elasticity of Demand on Price in the Hearing Aid Market
January 29, 2007
There are an estimated 31 million persons in the United States who experience some form of hearing loss, yet only 7.3 million opt to use hearing aids (Kochkin, 2005). The market penetration for hearin... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Reimbursement Issues for 2007 and Coding QNA
January 22, 2007
Concerns have recently been raised on various audiology e-mail listserves regarding the difference between proposed payment levels for Medicare and beneficiaries under two different programs: the Outp... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
DSL version v5.0: Description and Early Results in Children
January 15, 2007
In 2005, a new version of the Desired Sensation Level (DSL) prescriptive formula was released. Version 5.0 of DSL® updates both the protocols and targets from DSL v4.1. In this article, I will rev... Read More
Hearing Aids - Children Pediatrics
Vestibular Neuritis: Acute Clinical Picture
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December 11, 2006
Work completed at Intermountain Healthcare Hearing and Balance Center 230 South 500 East, Suite 150 Salt Lake City, Utah 84102 *Dr. Layton is now at Eastern Virginia Medical School, Department of Otol... Read More
Vestibular Issues and Balance Disorders Medical and Surgical
Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC), Part II - Strategic Messaging to Build Brand
December 4, 2006
It is just possible that marketing and brand are the most confusing words in the audiology vocabulary right now—our literature is becoming replete with discussions for different facets of market... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
