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Further understanding of GJB2 hearing loss

9 November 2021 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
For many years, hearing loss has been an area which has attracted the interest of clinical and academic geneticists. Genetic testing for severe-profound hearing loss is now commonplace in many healthcare systems. Understanding the genetics of hearing loss has improved...

Early results of the Cochlear Osia (active transcutaneous bone-conduction implant) in teenagers

5 July 2022 | | ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Otology
This funded research trial involving 14 adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in the Toronto Hospital for Sick Kids was carried out just prior to the new Osia implant obtaining FDA approval for use in the USA. The majority had...

Advances in auditory implants

3 July 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Otology
This article provides an overview of auditory implants. Implanted auditory devices may be classified into bone conduction implants (BCI) and active middle ear implants (AMEI) that stimulate cochlear hair cells, and cochlear implants (CI) that stimulate neural structures. CIs bypass...

The decision-making process by parents of children with residual hearing who receive cochlear implants

8 January 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery, ENTA - Tinnitus, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
It can be a difficult decision for parents whose children have residual hearing whether or not to undergo cochlear implantation. Their children may seem to be hearing with their hearing aids, and even in some cases can hear without aids....
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Newborn sensorineural hearing loss – what is the incidence?

4 March 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
In the last two decades, the introduction of newborn screening for hearing loss has dramatically lowered the average age of newborn hearing loss diagnosis to around two to three months of age. The benefits of early diagnosis are manifold, enabling...

The Brain’s Connectome – a symphony inside our brains and how hearing loss disturbs the music

1 May 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Neurotology
Understand us; where do we begin? In this article the authors’ introduce a project that may uncover that our personalities and traits are a product of the interconnected wiring within our brain. The team discusses the Human Connectome Project and...

Annelies Kusters: exploring deaf communities globally

3 May 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Pioneering deaf scholar, Annelies Kusters, shares insights from her global research journey spanning two decades in deaf communities worldwide. You’ve travelled the world extensively through your work – what’s surprised you most about the different communities that you’ve studied? My...

Voices: In conversation with Nick Coleman

1 July 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Nick Coleman is an author and journalist who has written for several national newspapers and music magazines. Following sudden unilateral deafness in 2007, he wrote The Train in the Night, which describes his experience of hearing loss, rehabilitation and what...

Annelies Kusters: exploring deaf communities globally

3 May 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Pioneering deaf scholar, Annelies Kusters, shares insights from her global research journey spanning two decades in deaf communities worldwide. You’ve travelled the world extensively through your work – what’s surprised you most about the different communities that you’ve studied? My...

UK innovation aims to end Otic Barotrauma for sufferers

5 June 2024 | Research & Development, Company Profiles
In a groundbreaking development, AirDrate®, a UK start-up, has unveiled a revolutionary solution to help alleviate the agony of Airplane Ear

Audiology in this issue... Paediatric Audiology Gamechangers (NovDec18)

7 November 2018
Fifty years ago, the National Conference on Education of the Deaf followed up on the Babbidge Report of 1965, recognising the failure of oralism in deaf education. Because young, deaf children at that time did not have access to sound, they could not develop speech and language. Further, because children were identified at two years or later, early intervention was only a dream.

Audiology In This Issue - Identity

4 September 2023 |
Guest Section Editors Crystal Rolfe, BSc, MSc, Associate Director of Strategy - Health, RNID, UK. Teri Devine,Associate Director of Strategy - Inclusion and Employment, RNID, UK. What is deaf identity? There are many variables that impact on deaf identity, such...