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Temporal Aspects of Hearing Aid Signal Processing
September 16, 2002
To compensate for the abnormal loudness growth experienced by listeners with sensorineural hearing impairment, compression is used as a basic processing feature in digital hearing instruments. Through... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Clinical Research Findings Confirm Benefits of Advanced Signal Processing
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September 9, 2002
This is an interim report from a three-site, multi-phase hearing aid field trial. Results from the first phase of the study have already been published from Site 1 (Bray & Nilsson, 2000) and Site 2 (B... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults
Managing Cerumen
September 3, 2002
A decade has passed since the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) issued their "Position Statement on External Auditory Canal, Examination and Cerumen Management". Many other audiology... Read More
Infection Control Medical and Surgical
Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease (AIEDs): Autoimmune Diseases with Audio-Vestibular Involvement
August 26, 2002
Systemic illnesses linked with sensorineural hearing loss and dizziness include polyarteritis nodosa (PAN), Cogan's syndrome, relapsing polychondritis, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Wegener's gr... Read More
Vestibular Issues and Balance Disorders Medical and Surgical Hearing and Hearing Loss
Meniere's Disease: Diagnosis, Natural History, and Current Management
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August 19, 2002
Meniere's Disease is a condition that should be understood by all healthcare professionals involved with treating and managing ear disorders, including audiologists and physicians. This article provid... Read More
Vestibular Issues and Balance Disorders Medical and Surgical
The Business Side of Balance: Marketing Issues
August 12, 2002
Specialize in treating balance disorders? Opportunity awaits, IF you effectively market your services. American Institute of Balance 11290 Park Blvd Seminole, FL 33772 More and more audiologists are i... Read More
Vestibular Issues and Balance Disorders Practice Management and Professional Issues
What Parents Should Know About Hearing Loss: Pointers for Parents
August 5, 2002
Parents have many questions and must make difficult decisions when their child is diagnosed with hearing loss. Children are not simply small adults - they are different in many respects, and their hea... Read More
Hearing Evaluation - Children Aural Habilitation - Children Pediatrics Pediatrics
Sound Field Amplification and the Teaching Voice
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July 29, 2002
Duquesne University Due to the energy and strain involved in providing oral instruction and education, teachers experience more voice problems than the general population (Calas, Verhulst, Locoq, Dall... Read More
Assistive Devices Aural Habilitation - Children Pediatrics
Frequency Modulation (FM) Systems for Children with Normal Hearing
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July 29, 2002
Research has demonstrated that many children with normal hearing (e.g., children with learning, reading, language, attentional and/or auditory processing disorders) experience difficulties understandi... Read More
Hearing Aids - Children Aural Habilitation - Children Assistive Devices Pediatrics Pediatrics
Audiologic Coding and Reimbursement Issues: Aural Rehabilitation, Auditory Processing and Cochlear Implants
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July 29, 2002
What do aural rehabilitation, auditory processing and cochlear implants have in common? Anticipated coding and reimbursement changes will link the three together in significant ways. Piecing together... Read More
Practice Management and Professional Issues
To Aid or Not to Aid: Children with Unilateral Hearing Loss
July 22, 2002
Approximately 3 out of 1000 children have unilateral hearing loss (UHL). Historically, audiologists have informed parents of children with UHL of the difficulties they would likely encounter localizin... Read More
Hearing Aids - Children Aural Habilitation - Children Pediatrics Pediatrics
Vibrant Soundbridge Direct Drive Middle Ear Implant: Issues and Review
July 15, 2002
Direct drive, implantable middle ear hearing devices represent a new category of hearing devices. Rather than delivering acoustic energy into the external auditory canal (as with traditional hearing a... Read More
Hearing Aids - Adults Medical and Surgical
A Conversational Approach to Aural Rehabilitation
July 8, 2002
There is emerging evidence that suggests we are making considerable progress with regard to hearing aid satisfaction (Northern, 2001, personal communication). Yet, a large number of individuals fit wi... Read More
Aural Rehabilitation and Counseling - Adults
Why Aren't Hearing Conservation Practices Taught in Schools?
July 2, 2002
Robert L. Folmer, Ph.D. Oregon Hearing Research Center Mail Code NRC04 Oregon Health & Science University 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road Portland, OR 97201-3098 Telephone: (503) 494-8032 Fax: (503) 494... Read More
Hearing Conservation and NIHL
The Absence of Hearing Healthcare in a so-called ''Tidal Wave of Alzheimer's Cases''
July 2, 2002
Almost like an orchestrated plan to scare the unwilling into submission, daily headlines scream about the coming "Tidal Wave of Alzheimer's Cases."1 Indeed, reported incidences of this difficult to di... Read More
Hearing and Hearing Loss Medical and Surgical
Acoustic Shock Injury: Real or Imaginary?
June 17, 2002
Isolated reports of injury following exposure to loud sounds from headsets have met with skepticism. This study involved examination of the case records of 103 call centre operators who experienced ac... Read More
Hearing Conservation and NIHL
Comparison of Word Familiarity: Conversational Words v. NU-6 list Words
June 10, 2002
This study was conducted to compare the Northwestern University Auditory Test No.6 (NU-6) word list, to common words used today, to assess whether the NU-6 lists represent familiar and common words us... Read More
Hearing Evaluation - Adults
The Power to Hear is Powered by Batteries
June 3, 2002
The story of better hearing started a long time ago. As soon as people aged, there was hearing loss. As soon as there were diseases to challenge the ears, and auditory function, there was hearing loss... Read More
A Response to: United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) Report Regarding Universal Newborn Hearing Screening
May 27, 2002
This paper is written as a response to the USPSTF paper titled "Recommendations and Rationale Newborn Hearing Screening." The USPSTF paper was published in November 2001, the reader is referred to the... Read More
Hearing Evaluation - Children Pediatrics
Hearing Aids: Reasonable Expectations for the Consumer
May 20, 2002
Editor's Note: This article was the winning submission for the Audiology Online (www.audiologyonline.com) contest sponsored by Rayovac Ultra Pro Line, for the best new article written for consumers an... Read More
Aural Rehabilitation and Counseling - Adults Hearing Aids - Adults
