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Monthly Review September Line-Up: It's All About Treatment
September 19, 2012
Can you believe another summer has come and gone and fall is already in full swing? I want to take this opportunity to tell you about some September happenings here on AO. This month, it's all about t... Read More
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Last Call for Ideas for Ida Institute's Ideas Campaign
September 19, 2012
This is the last week to submit ideas to Ideas, Speak up - Action and Awareness for Hearing Loss, Ida Institute's worldwide open call for ideas to build awareness of hearing loss. More than 1000 peopl... Read More
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Oticon's 5th International Conference Explores Challenges and Opportunities Shaping the Future of Hearing Care
September 18, 2012
More than 300 hearing care professionals from around the world recently participated in Oticon's 5th International Conference. The educational gathering explored the challenges and opportunities for h... Read More
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GN Otometrics Announces VNG/ENG Course in October
September 18, 2012
Chicago Course to be facilitated by Kamran Barin, Ph.D. GN Otometrics, the world leader in hearing and balance diagnostic systems, announced today that it is offering its second VNG/ENG course this ye... Read More
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New Howard Leight® Sync Digital Radio & Electo Earmuffs Combine Hearing Protection, High-Fidelity Sound, Radio & MP3 Listening
September 17, 2012
Honeywell Safety Products introduced the next generation of digital radio and sound amplification earmuffs to its Howard Leight® Sync™ family today. The new Sync Digital AM/FM Radio, Sync Hi... Read More
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ASHA Media Awards Announced
September 17, 2012
Speech Therapy for Congresswoman Giffords, Removing Communication Disorders That Impede Scholastic Success, A Campaign Aimed at Untreated Hearing Loss Are Topics of Winners: Four ASHA Members Recogniz... Read More
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Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)
September 16, 2012
Since January 1, 2010, Audiologists have had the opportunity to improve both the profession of audiology and quality of care provided to Medicare beneficiaries by participating in the program. The PQR... Read More
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NHCA Scholarship Foundation Announces 2013 Student Conference Awards Available!
September 15, 2012
The Scholarship Foundation of the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) is pleased to announce the availability of a limited number of student conference awards for the 38th Annual NHCA Con... Read More
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Boomers Benefit From Hearing Aids as They Stay in the Workforce Longer
September 14, 2012
Let's face it. The Great Recession put a kink in many American's retirement plans. Combine that financial blow with the general uncertainty regarding Medicare and the future cost of private health ins... Read More
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Sycle.net Promotes HealthiPlan® Patient Financing Program With iPad Giveaways
September 12, 2012
HealthiPlan® hearing aid financing program is simple and easy to use. Sycle.net, the number one practice management system in the hearing care industry, is promoting its exclusive patient financin... Read More
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IP57 Certification for Dust and Water Resistance Awarded to Oticon miniRITE/RITE and miniBTE/BTE Hearing Instruments
September 11, 2012
Oticon announced today that all of the miniRITE/RITE and miniBTE/BTE instrument styles for the Oticon Agil, Intiga, Acto, Ino, Chili, Sumo, and Safari families have recently been rigorously tested by... Read More
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Audiology Systems Inc. Announces National Sales Operation
September 11, 2012
Brown and Switalski Join Company. Audiology Systems Inc., a national partnership of industry professionals, audiologists and local audiology and vestibular instrument experts, announced today it has f... Read More
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Bay International Ltd. Successfully Launches Simply Hearing OMS Enterprise in Taiwan
September 10, 2012
Simply Hearing Software Inc. and Bay International Ltd. announce today that Bay International Ltd. has successfully implemented Simply Hearing OMS Enterprise in Taiwan. "Bay International currently ut... Read More
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Professional Supervisor for the Audiometric Component of the Hearing Conservation Program Workshop - Thursday, November 8, 2012 - Phoenix, AZ
September 9, 2012
The Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation (CAOHC) invites you to attend this exciting workshop taking place as an ADA pre conference workshop Federal regulations define audiol... Read More
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Arizona Expands Access to Movies and Performances for Individuals who are Hard of Hearing
September 8, 2012
The Arizona Attorney General Office's Civil Rights Division and Cinemark Holdings, Inc. recently settled a lawsuit filed by the Civil Rights Division in June 2011, to obtain neckloop assistive listeni... Read More
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The Foundation Makes 3 Moldovan Girls the Gift of Good Hearing
September 7, 2012
Annually, more than 660,000 children throughout the world are born with reduced hearing - many of them in developing countries. Via the "52 Children" Project, the Swiss Hear the World Foundation has b... Read More
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New ASHA Audiology Chief Assumes Post
September 6, 2012
Cites Need to "Shape The Future" of Audiology Practice. Neil J. DiSarno, PhD, CCC-A, is the new Chief Staff Officer for Audiology at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Since 1998... Read More
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GN Otometrics ICS AirCal Cleared by FDA for Sale in U.S.
September 5, 2012
New ICS Air Caloric Irrigator Offers Improved Product Features. GN Otometrics, the world leader in hearing and balance diagnostic systems, announced today that the new ICS AirCal air caloric irrigator... Read More
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First-Ever Health Care Interpreting Certificate Grads at RIT/NTID
September 5, 2012
The National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology has graduated the first class from its Health Care Interpreting certificate program, the first program of its kind of... Read More
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Hearing Loss Association of America Presents National Awards at Convention 2012 in Providence, Rhode Island
September 4, 2012
Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), the nation's largest organization for people with hearing loss, presented national awards during its annual Convention this past June in Providence, Rhode I... Read More
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