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Improving Everyday Life with Hearing Rehabilitation


Editor's Note: This is a transcript of the live seminar presented on Novermber 9, 2011 as part of the ReSound online symposium, Advances in Amplification: Meeting the Needs of Aging Adults. To view the course recording, register here. While a few of the images from the presentation have been included in this transcript, please download the pdf of the slide presentation for all images including charts, graphs, etc.

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Audiology Marketing 2.0: Using Technology to Attract Older Patients


Editor's Note: This is a transcript of the live seminar presented on November 14, 2011 as part of the ReSound symposium, Advances in Amplification: Meeting the Needs of Aging Adults. To view the course recording, register here.

Introduction

My name is Matt Perry and I am an audiologist with a private practice in Maryland. I host a show called Audiology Marketing Now, which is a web TV show at audiologymarketingnow.com where ...

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New Insights into First-time Users


Readiness Management is the collection of best practices that can assist in moving a patient who shows some level of interest in obtaining amplification to the point of trial use in a way that maximizes the chance for a positive outcome.

It is a well recognized reality in our field that only a minority of the patients who could benefit from amplification actually use hearing devices (Kochkin, 2000). Many patients enter ...

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A Broader View of Open Fittings


Editor's note: This is a transcript of the live seminar presented on August 25, 2011. To view the course recording, register here.

This course is part of a series of talks that I am giving on AudiologyOnline this year entitled Signal Processing in Real Life. What I have been trying to achieve in these courses is to look at some of the major signal processing techniques and other aspects of hearing aid ...

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Ethics: Applications to the Clinical, Academic and Corporate Worlds


Editor's note: This is a transcript of the live seminar presented on September 15, 2011. To view the course recording, register here.

What is a Profession?

If we think about our profession over the last several decades, much time has been spent talking about the entire concept of professionalism and what it means to us as audiologists. Let's look at some characteristics of a profession and how they may apply to audiology.

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The Challenge of Detecting Minimal Hearing Loss in Audiometric Surveys.


CONCLUSIONS: The definition of an otologically normal individual, the pass-fail criterion representing the upper limit of the range of normal hearing, and the quality of the audiometry affect the percentage of persons identified falsely as having a minimal hearing loss. An upper limit of normal hearing of 15 dB HL yields an unacceptably high false-positive rate, particularly when the more variable higher audiometric frequencies are examined. When air-conduction thresholds are assessed in isolation to estimate potential noise damage, the failure to exclude persons who have possible middle- and external-ear problems, including earwax, results in high false positive rates. When these factors and other limitations are considered, audiograms from teens from a recent CDC survey do not show evide...

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Association Between Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Hearing Sensitivity.


CONCLUSIONS: Cardiorespiratory fitness was associated with hearing sensitivity using the non-exercise prediction equation. Further studies are needed to confirm these findings that suggest a potentially auditory-protective effect of cardiorespiratory fitness.

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20Q: Hearing Loss, Hearing Aids, and Listening Effort


From the desk of Gus Mueller

I met up with an old friend of mine the other day, and learned that he had just purchased hearing aids. I recall him telling me some time ago that he was having problems at work, a management job which consisted of attending a lot of meetings. He has a mild high-frequency loss in the 3000-4000 Hz range; someone most of ...

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