The Audiologist Informer

Brent Edwards from NAL and Stefan Launer from Sonova take us through their careers and share lessons and perspectives on the development of hearing technology. They discuss how the development of technology becomes more holistic, design thinking,  standardization, and what's needed to get to new service models and innovation.

Despite the presence of a dominant normal hearing ear, providing a CI to children with prelingual SSD can have a significant positive impact on the children’s auditory development, including improved speech in noise and even localization performance in some cases. The researchers conclude that early cochlear implantation may offer many benefits to children with SSD and it should be considered as standard of care.

Head-related transfer function (HRFT) is now a thing in the world of personalized spatial audio. Here's how games, Dolby, etc, work with it, and why personalized spatial audio could be a game-changer.