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Hearing Science
We just got back from our annual California Academy of Audiology convention that took place in Anaheim. This is an excellent time for us to network with audi- ologists from all over the state and to…
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More Hearing Science
Another speaker at our conference, Fan-gang Zang, Ph.D. of University of California, Irvine, presented his discussion on tinnitus and a new tinnitus therapy that he is helping to develop. At least 50 million Americans have…
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Financing plans for hearing aids
Hearing aids are essential for good quality of life for the hearing impaired, but people put off getting them due to the big upfront expense. A few years ago when the economy started to slow…
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Cell phones and hearing aid compatibility
Manufacturers rate cell phones models based on their compatibility with hearing aid microphones and telecoils. The highest rating a phone can receive is a
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How do I know if I have a hearing loss?
Typically hearing loss comes on so gradually that it is difficult for the person with the loss to realize what they are missing. Here are some of the first symptoms that my patients report: -Turning…
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What is the Story with “Free” Hearing Tests?
More than once I’ve had to answer the question of why we bill insurance for hearing tests when other places do it for free. As audiologists, our license allows us to do full diagnos- tic…
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The Widex Clear has been released to the US market
The new Widex Clear hearing aid has been fit on patients in Europe for months and the reviews are sounding great! Because the hearing aid has a sound generating feature called Zen, Widex had to…
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Answering Machine with Slow Speech
Understanding the name and phone number of a caller is very difficult for hearing impaired people. My patients also say that it is very difficult to under- stand information left on their answering machines. If…
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Benefits of Binaural Amplification
Many years ago it was com- mon for people to be fit with one hearing aid even if they had loss in both ears. Then in the 1980’s a study came out of the Veteran’s…
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Speechreading
In the past people spoke of “lipreading.” The term these days isn’t “lipreading,” but rather “speechreading.” The change has come because we are really look- ing at people’s facial expressions, arm gestures, postures, etc. and…