Articles
Read CEU articles and transcripts from experts in audiology and industry.
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
Auditory Brainstem Response Testing: Stimulus Rate Revisited
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November 20, 2006
R. Steven Ackley, Ph.D., CCC-A, FAAA Gallaudet University Audiology Online Contributing Editor Linda Herzberger-Kimball, M.S. Kaiser Permanente Denver Shannon Burns, M.A., CCC-A Phoenix Children's Hos... Read More
Electrophysiology
Electroacoustic Evaluation of Advanced FM Systems
November 13, 2006
Advances in hearing instrument and frequency modulated (FM) assistive technology have provided audiologists with a variety of options to meeting client/patient needs when fitting these devices. Howeve... Read More
Assistive Devices Hearing Aids - Adults Hearing Aids - Children Pediatrics
Hearing & Children: When a child has a hearing loss, physicians and the audiologist need to work together
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November 12, 2006
Fundamentals of Clinical ECAP Measures in Cochlear Implants Part 2: Measurement Techniques and Tips
November 6, 2006
The first article in this two-part series provided an overview of how telemetry is used to measure the electrically evoked compound action potential (ECAP) in patients with cochlear implants (Hughes,... Read More
Cochlear Implants Hearing Aids - Adults
Guideline for Audiologic Management of the Adult Patient
October 30, 2006
Task Force Members In 2003, Angela Loavenbruck, then President of the American Academy of Audiology (AAA), asked the author to consider chairing a new Task Force whose goal was to develop a national g... Read More
Hearing Evaluation - Adults Hearing Aids - Adults
T-Coils: Beyond the Telephone
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October 16, 2006
T-coils (also called induction pick-up coils, or magnetic induction systems) have existed within personal hearing aids since the late 1940s (Ross, 2004). T-coils can be thought of as mini-antennas, wh... Read More
Assistive Devices Hearing Aids - Adults
Bluetooth 101: The Audiologist's Guide
October 16, 2006
Bluetooth technology has been implemented in numerous consumer electronic devices (Miller 2002) and has now struck the field of Audiology. A handful of Bluetooth products are now available to patients... Read More
Assistive Devices Hearing Aids - Adults
Hearing Aid Compatibility for Digital Wireless Phones
October 9, 2006
Hearing aid compatibility (HAC) for digital wireless phones was not, until recently, a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirement. One of the primary reasons the FCC reconsidered the HAC exem... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Amplification and Medically Complex Hearing Loss
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October 9, 2006
Hearing aids are generally fit based on the type and degree of hearing loss, not etiology. However, in medically complex cases, hearing loss is only one manifestation of an underlying and ongoing dise... Read More
Hearing and Hearing Loss Hearing Aids - Adults
Behavioral Verification of Speech Recognition Benefit for Children with FM Systems Coupled to Cochlear Implants
September 25, 2006
The options for interfacing frequency-modulated (FM) equipment with cochlear implants (CIs) are increasing with the development of new implant features and new FM options. Because traditional methods... Read More
Hearing Aids - Children Cochlear Implants Assistive Devices Aural Habilitation - Children Pediatrics Pediatrics
Rayovac - Your Hearing Aid Battery Questions Answered!
September 18, 2006
Do you have questions about hearing aid batteries? At Rayovac, we pride ourselves in having the best built, longest lasting hearing aid batteries on the market. Still, there are lots of ways that you... Read More
Batteries Hearing Aids - Adults
Sound Therapy Option Profile (STOP): A Tool for Selecting Devices Used in Tinnitus Treatment
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September 4, 2006
The use of sound therapy is a fundamental component of the widely used tinnitus management approaches, namely masking (Vernon & Meikle, 2000) and habituation including Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT... Read More
Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Hearing Aids - Adults
