The Audiologist Informer

Phonak and Advanced Bionics have partnered with "Rally Caps," an independent baseball film that's shining a spotlight on the hearing loss community in a coming-of-age story for kids.

Bose and Lexie Hearing announced a partnership to bring Bose SoundControl self-fitting hearing aid technology to the Lexie Hearing product line. HearingTracker Audiologist Matthew Allsop offers his perspective on possible implications for the new OTC hearing aid class.

This summary of articles demonstrates the exciting opportunities for assessment, treatment, and delivery of individually tailored patient-centered hearing care via teleaudiology.

HearingTracker's Abram Bailey, AuD, was curious to see what his colleagues thought of OTC hearing aids as they become widely available, so he ran a quick survey to better understand possible objections. Here are the initial survey results.

Older participants required higher SNRs to achieve equivalent performance, and age-related changes were observed in neural processing. Together, the results suggest some older adults exhibit reallocation of processing resources to complete demanding listening tasks and may have less efficient recruitment of neural resources during effortful listening.