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Read CEU articles and transcripts from experts in audiology and industry.
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
Laboratory Measures of Hearing Aid Outcome: More Than Just Nostalgia for the '70s
May 12, 2008
70s Night" is popular in the United States. Just about every major sports team playing more than 25 games a season devotes one night per year to all the novelties of the 1970s. Wide collars, long hair... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Audiology and HIV: Developing Best Clinical Health Practices
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April 28, 2008
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the virus that causes AIDS (acquired immune-deficiency syndrome). Because the known means of HIV transmission, the exchange of bodily fluids, is not a typical... Read More
Infection Control Medical and Surgical Practice Management and Professional Issues
Case Study Outcomes of Hearing Impaired Listeners Using Nonlinear Frequency Compression Technology
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March 17, 2008
Providing audibility of a wide range of input levels from a broad frequency spectrum is a goal of any hearing aid fitting. For listeners with high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss, this goal can b... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Musicians and the Prevention of Hearing Loss: An Introduction
January 28, 2008
Editor's Note: Dr. Chasin has provided an excellent overview of how musicians might effectively prevent music-induced hearing loss. I would encourage you to download and read the three PDF addendums p... Read More
Hearing Conservation and NIHL
Fabry Files: Biggest Audiology News Stories of 2007
January 7, 2008
It's that time of year - the time when everyone puts out a list of the "top items" in a given category. I took the liberty of going through the Audiology Online news files and selecting what I thought... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
The Future is Here: The Otologics Fully Implantable Hearing System
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November 19, 2007
Traditional electronic hearing aids have evolved to various stages of development since their inception in the late 19th century. The continuing development of electronic amplification using technolog... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults Medical and Surgical
Transcript From the Live Session - Coding and Billing QNA
November 12, 2007
Editor's Note - The following is a partial transcript from the Coding and Billing QNA Live e-Seminar that was conducted on Audiology Online on June 27, 2007. (The recorded version is available here ).... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
Assessment and Management of Minimal, Mild, and Unilateral Hearing Loss in Children
October 29, 2007
There has recently been a renewed interest in the topic of minimal and mild hearing loss in children. Although the term "minimal hearing loss" has not been standardized, the Bess, Dodd-Murphy, and Par... Read More
Hearing Aids - Children Hearing Evaluation - Children Aural Habilitation - Children Pediatrics Pediatrics Pediatrics
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
