The Audiologist Informer

Since the improvement of hearing aids, lipreading has not been given the attention it deserves in research and in the clinic, say the authors. They describe lipreading and theoretically motivated approaches to its training, as well as examples of successful training paradigms and extensions to auditory-only (AO) and audiovisual (AV) speech recognition.

A new national “Hear Well” campaign—sponsored by the Hearing Industries Association with partner organizations representing virtually all the major hearing-related professional and consumer advocacy groups—seeks to educate Americans about the importance of hearing health and the role of hearing professionals.

Dr. Kim Cavitt provides some “do's and don'ts” for dealing with in-network insurance claims. She believes if state/federal governments or health plans were to choose to audit audiology and hearing aid claims, many providers would not survive these audits without claims repayment or further legal scrutiny.