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by Curtis Alcock
Hearing health care professionals (HHP) are socialised into the belief that people with hearing loss are “in denial.” This is reinforced when people who later “accept their hearing loss,” use hearing technology, look back at their earlier failure to recognise their hearing loss, and try to rationalise their failure by adopting the explanation of “denial” given by the HHP.
by Matthias Froehlich, PhD
Han Rui, MD
Xiaoling Liu
Froehlich, Rui, and Liu from Sivantos give us a “Comparison of Prescriptive Fitting Algorithms and Beamforming Technology for Two Different Manufacturers.”
by Brian Taylor
Originally posted at HHTM On July 16, 2014. Reprinted with permission. What Do These Findings Mean to the Profession and Your Business? Before considering an unbundling strategy practitioners would be wise to implement the following: Beef up the service experience. An easy place to start would be to provide every patient with general coping and communication strategies….
by Brian Taylor
Originally posted at HHTM On May 20, 2015. Reprinted with permission. If you’ve been keeping up with the professional listservs over the past year or so, you’ve probably heard the chatter about unbundling or itemizing various audiological services. There are many valid economic arguments for unbundling service from the selection and fitting of the device, and it’s ultimately the…
by Harvey Abrams
Originally posted at HHTM On May 20, 2015. Reprinted with permission. “Peeling the Onion” is a monthly column by Harvey Abrams, PhD. For today’s post, I’d like to combine the subjects of two previous, seemingly unrelated “Peeling the Onion” posts – the Transtheoretical (Stages of Change) Model and MarkeTrak (MT) 9. MT9 Goes to the IOM Meeting On June…
by Robert Traynor
Originally posted at HHTM On May 20, 2015. Reprinted with permission. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) (2015) these are the current facts on deafness and hearing loss around the world: 360 million people (328 Million and 32 Million children) worldwide have disabling hearing loss (40 dB or greater for the better ear for adults)(greater than…
by Robert Martin
Originally posted at HHTM On April 20, 2016. Reprinted with permission. If you are an audiologist, it is easy to delude yourself into thinking that people will listen to you and accept what you are saying. You spent a lot of time and energy going to graduate school, and you have a license to practice Audiology. So,…
with Marshall Chasin, AuD
Class is in session for this issue’s “Back to Basics as Professor Marshall Chasin tells us about “Linguistics 101 for Hearing Healthcare Professionals.”
with Kim L. Tillery, PhD
In the first of a three-part series, Kim Tillery looks at “Accommodating CAPDs – The Tripod System.”
by Wayne J. Staab, PhD
Wayne Staab tells us the story of how, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a series of events occurred that brought fitting hearing aids more deeply into the ear canal.
