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Sonion, one of the world's largest hearing aid component manufacturers, will shut down company production in the Philippines and lay off 1,200 employees. Sonion CEO Christian Nielsen attributes the move to the financial instability currently marring Southeast Asia, a situation he expects will continue.
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Mostafa Eldaebes, MSc, Aud(C), takes us on a journey through time in the evolution of vestibular testing as we know it today.
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Canada does not yet have regulations for OTC hearing aids, and Health Canada has not approved their use even though citizens can obtain the devices online. While CAA believes FDA-approved OTC hearing aids are safe and can improve access for some adults with mild-to-moderate hearing loss, the devices may be limited in their ability to alleviate all listening challenges.
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Kathy Pichora-Fuller, PhD, provides an excellent overview of the rapidly expanding evidence-based research concerning connections between hearing and cognition.
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- 'It will help a lot of people': Seattle 8-year-old wants to change state hearing aid laws king5․com
- Hearing Restorative Devices May Have a Beneficial Effect on Cognition journals․lww․com
- Sept. 19-22, 2024: 36th World Congress of Audiology (WCA2024) wca2024paris․com
- Marshall Chasin: Remembering Alberto Behar canadianaudiologist․ca
- Mysteries of the Hearing Brain–Auditory Training May Partially Restore Temporal Processing canadianaudiologist․ca
- Audiology of the Future with Next Generation, Whole Human Genome Sequencing canadianaudiologist․ca
- Gael Hannan: The Hearing Loss Hangover canadianaudiologist․ca
- Book Review: 'Instrumentation for Audiology and Hearing Science: Theory and Practice', by Silman, Emmer, Silverman & Alexa Brody canadianaudiologist․ca
Audio/Video
- Hearing Journal Podcast: Blending Industrial Audiology With Private Practice…and You Can Call Me Lieutenant Colonel, Too hearingjournalrudden․ovid․libsynpro․com
- Dr. Cliff Show LIVE! Battle of Disposable vs. Rechargeable Battery Hearing Aids – Part 2 of 2 youtube․com
- Dr. Cliff Short Video: Arthritis and Hearing Aid Batteries youtube․com
- Hearing Health & Technology Matters: The Giants of Audiology: Frank Musiek, PhD (interviewed by Robert Traynor, EdD) hearinghealthmatters․org
Research
- Hierarchical differences in the encoding of sound and choice in the subcortical auditory system journals․physiology․org
- Speech auditory brainstem response (ABR) in audiological practice: A systematic review pubmed․ncbi․nlm․nih․gov
- Comodulation Masking Release in Tinnitus Frequency and One Lower Octave of Tinnitus Frequency link․springer․com
- Clinical Trial: Local Heat-Stress as a Mechanism of Hearing Preservation clinicaltrials․gov
- Perception of Prosody in Hearing-Impaired Individuals and Users of Hearing Assistive Devices: An Overview of Recent Advances pubs․asha․org
- Preserved functional organization of human auditory cortex in individuals missing one temporal lobe from infancy biorxiv․org