A research study published online last month in Nature Neuroscience, has broken new ground in exploring how people with hearing impairment process sounds in noisy environments. The findings could be very useful for designing hearing aids and assistive technologies in the future.
An organization that I am involved in is having its first fundraiser and I wanted to invite all of my blog followers to attend. HearAid Foundation is a non-profit organization that works with professionals in the community to identify underserved individuals with hearing loss, especially children, who need hearing aids or services. Our first event, [...]
One of the more intriguing new products I found being showcased at the American Academy of Audiology convention earlier this year was a waterproof hearing aid. The Phonak M H20, Naida S CRT and Nio S H20 are designed for people with a mild to severe hearing loss. Phonak says that wearers can enjoy a wide range of water activities and sand sports comfortably and confidently.
I have written before in my blog about the increasing levels of noise in restaurants across the country, and how patrons are less than enthused about the din. So a recent article in the Los Angeles Times called “Noisy restaurants: Taking the din out of dinner” was welcome news on several fronts.
Shohet Ear Associates has been designated as a Premier Elite Provider for the new Lyric hearing devices. The designation means that Shohet Ear Associates will be among the very first practices to be able to offer the new Lyric sizes to patients.
By Cheryl Tanita, Au.D., CCC-A Chief of Audiology I just returned from the annual conference of the American Academy of Audiology in Boston, the largest gathering of audiologists in the world. This year’s convention drew 8,000 attendees from around the globe. The meeting allows audiologists to learn about the latest research on topcis such as [...]
A Dutch study confirms what we’ve observed on our own: kids with a second cochlear implant see marked improvement in quality of life measures related to speech and hearing.
A new study of 46,000 households by the Better Hearing Institute has found that there are nearly twice as many tinnitus sufferers in the U.S. than previously believed—close to thirty million Americans. And for many of these patients, hearing aids significantly helped them with their tinnitus. If you or a loved one is afflicted with [...]
By Cheryl Tanita, M.S., Au.D. Shohet Ear Associates is the first practice in Orange County to offer the SoundBite™ Hearing System, an innovative approach to treating patients with single-sided deafness. SoundBite is the world’s first removable and non-surgical hearing solution to use the well-established principle of bone conduction to imperceptibly transmit sound via the teeth [...]
Those of you who have heard about the totally implantable hearing aid called the Envoy Esteem may be interested in a scientific paper just published November 17 in the medical journal, Otology & Neurotology. The paper is co-authored by me and my colleagues who participated in the clinical trials for Esteem, Drs. Eric M. Kraus, [...]