Articles
Read CEU articles and transcripts from experts in audiology and industry.
Issues Regarding Disposable Hearing Aids
October 4, 2000
The introduction of disposable hearing aids poses many questions to the audiologist. What effects will such a product have on our traditional, custom fit, 'durable' environment? What systemic changes... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults Practice Management and Professional Issues
Audiologic Rehabilitation = Good Hearing Health Care
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September 25, 2000
Results of an extensive research study by Kochkin (2000), regarding the impact of hearing instruments on quality of life, succinctly articulates the compelling social, psychological, cognitive and hea... Read More
Aural Rehabilitation and Counseling - Adults
Marketing is Essential
September 18, 2000
Many audiologists consider marketing to be a necessary evil. Some resist the temptation to advertise based upon the moral standards of the past. However, much like attorneys and physicians, healthcare... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Disposable Hearing Aids and Market Orientation
September 18, 2000
The introduction of disposable hearing aids to the hearing healthcare marketplace can be viewed with contempt, disdain, exhilaration, or ambivalence. Veteran audiologists may dismiss these devices as... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Audiology and Evidence-based Health Care
September 18, 2000
Health care decision making is shifting from cost-driven choices to quality-driven choices. This paradigm shift refocuses the emphasis from 'what does it cost?' to 'what do I get for my money?' Accred... Read More
Aural Rehabilitation and Counseling - Adults Hearing Aids - Adults Hearing Evaluation - Adults Practice Management and Professional Issues
Audiology in the New Millenium
September 13, 2000
Audiology's origins are firmly rooted within the ''medical model.'' Despite our origin as a rehabilitative profession, our diagnostic abilities and interests were quickly realized and used to suppleme... Read More
Aural Rehabilitation and Counseling - Adults
Professional Coding: Part One
September 11, 2000
In response to requests for information on procedural and diagnostic coding, I am writing the first of a multi-part series. This first section will address CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) coding.... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Tone Burst Evoked Potentials: Clinical Applications
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September 6, 2000
With the increased number of hospitals performing universal newborn hearing screenings, audiologists will be increasingly responsible for the early identification and diagnosis of hearing loss. Import... Read More
Electrophysiology
Middle Ear Implant: An Audiologist's First Hand Experience
September 5, 2000
In September 1998, I made the decision to become a subject in the clinical trials for the Symphonix Vibrant Soundbridge middle ear implantable hearing aid. It is without a doubt the best decision I ha... Read More
Hearing and Hearing Loss Hearing Aids - Adults Medical and Surgical
Diagnosis: It's More Than Medical, It's Scientific
September 4, 2000
On page 8 of your September, 1999 issue, Michael Maves, M.D., executive vice-president of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, is quoted as to who is qualified to make a ''d... Read More
Medical and Surgical Practice Management and Professional Issues
Middle Ear Implants
August 28, 2000
Middle Ear Implants (MEIs) are useful for those with a purely sensorineural hearing loss. Historically, the first clinically available MEIs (by Drs. Suzuki and Yanagihara in Japan) were those with unr... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults Medical and Surgical
Five Myths in Assessing the Effects of Noise on Hearing
August 28, 2000
This short essay is a compilation of statements commonly used by audiologists or others with some expertise related to the effects of noise on hearing. Like most things in life, there is a kernel of t... Read More
Hearing Conservation and NIHL Hearing Evaluation - Adults
Audiological Diagnosis: The Need To Establish Ourselves
August 22, 2000
In the January/February issue of Audiology Today my colleagues Drs. David Lipscomb and Michael Seidemann and I discussed the role of audiologists in the ''diagnosis'' of hearing impairment (Roeser, Li... Read More
Hearing Evaluation - Adults Practice Management and Professional Issues
Directional Microphone Patterns: They also have disadvantages
August 21, 2000
Much has been written recently on the advantages to the hearing aid user of an aid having a directional microphone response: A directional aid can make it easier for the user to hear in noisy environm... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Advertising Myopia
August 21, 2000
In today's world of slogan saturation, discount dementia, special offers, free gifts and the never ending 'SALE SALE SALE', the private practice audiologist can often wonder if there is any real, meas... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Integrating Physiologic Technologies for Hearing Evaluation in Infants and Small Children: An Overview.
August 16, 2000
Everyday in the United States, 33 babies are born with severe to profound hearing loss (1-3 in 1,000 births). It is estimated that another 33 babies are born everyday with mild to moderate hearing los... Read More
Hearing Evaluation - Children Pediatrics
The Value of Valuations
August 10, 2000
Our first article in this series discussed various types of business reorganization and expansion models, including mergers, acquisitions, horizontal and vertical integration, and takeovers. The discu... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
A Note from the Youngest to the Oldest (in Class)
August 8, 2000
I learned a great deal in my first course at the Arizona School of Health Sciences this June. In the inaugural class we had 33 students and at least that many personalities! I learned that at 33 years... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Central Auditory Processing in Clinical Practice
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August 7, 2000
Teri James Bellis, Ph.D. Department of Communication Disorders University of South Dakota Vermillion, SD Barbara Roe Beck, M.A. Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Saint Louis Universit... Read More
Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)
Production and the Closing Rate
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August 2, 2000
You can really sum up the 'nuts and bolts' of an audiology practice in one word -- production. The term 'production' is well known in the physician's world. It is the bottom line that drives the exist... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
