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Don’t be too apologetic: disclosing communication difficulties

2 March 2022 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy | cross-cultural, self-disclosure, stereotype threat, stigma, stuttering
People who stutter are frequently considered less intelligent or less confident, and are often discriminated against. These negative perceptions have been found to differ slightly across different cultural groups. For Hebrew speakers in Israel, having a stutter can have a...
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How can we manage children with poor speech discrimination but with normal audiogram

3 May 2022 | | ENTA - Otology
We often come across children and young adults brought in for consultation for suspected hearing loss and having hearing difficulty in noisy backgrounds but who often have normal audiograms. Such patients are suspected to have auditory neuropathy. The term auditory...

Does speech and language therapy provide value for money?

6 January 2023 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
Within the NHS (and outside it), managers, commissioners and consumers will consider value for money as a key component in making a decision about whether to pay for speech and language therapy (or any other service for that matter). Yet...
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Softband vs. adhesive adapter in children with unilateral microtia and atresia

3 July 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Otology
A bone conduction device is a well-established treatment indicated for patients with unilateral microtia and canal atresia. There are a variety of nonsurgical bone conduction hearing aids (BCHAs) with different coupling methods (softbands/adhesive adapter/spectacles). There appears to be uncertainty of...
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Metrics to evaluate post-ACDF dysphagia

8 January 2024 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | ACDF, Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, Dysphagia, Objective dysphagia scales, Patient reported outcome measures (PROM), Post-operative dysphagia, Subjective dysphagia scales
The authors performed a literature review to evaluate the current classification metrics for quantifying dysphagia after anterior spine surgery and, specifically, cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF). They selected 19 articles after reviewing literature from 2005 to 2021. The result of...

SnapPROBE™ Accessories for Sera™, easyScreen™ and Novus™ with Sanibel Supply

5 May 2021 | Research & Development
Newborn hearing screening demands complex and sensitive technology to record the electrophysiological and physiological responses needed (ABR and OAE).

An audio inclusivity project

31 January 2026
Hackney has become the hub of a new initiative for audio inclusivity, with three of the London borough's leading music venues now boasting state-of-the-art, audio-inclusive acoustics. Audio inclusivity is a concept developed to ensure venues and experiences are accessible and welcoming for people of all hearing abilities, including those who are noise-sensitive.

Bipolar microdebrider turbinoplasty

1 September 2019 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
There are a variety of ways to reduce the bulk of hypertrophied turbinates. Kimberley Lau and Showkat Mirza describe their technique which can be used in difficult cases and with minimal morbidity. As ever, one aim should be to avoid...

Hyposalivation: a review of current and future treatments

8 January 2024 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
Hyposalivation remains a stubbornly difficult condition to treat, but novel therapies may not be far away. Saliva has many essential functions, including aiding digestion and swallowing, lubrication, maintaining tooth integrity and antibacterial activity. When patients experience reduced saliva production (hyposalivation),...

FESSing up

7 January 2026 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
This story is dedicated to my dear friend and much-missed colleague, Heinz Stammberger, with whom some of these moments were shared (or endured). Having used a rigid endoscope in my postgrad thesis in the early 1980s to show that the...

Endotypes in chronic rhinosinusitis: clinical relevance

3 May 2024 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Identifying endotypes enables personalised therapies that target specific pathophysiological processes, potentially resulting in better treatment outcomes for patients. The contemporary model of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) pathogenesis revolving around endotype, in combination with an expanding toolbox of diagnostics and therapeutics, enables...

Pre-hospital care

1 July 2014 | | ENTA - General
For those of us that work within the acute hospital system, the sound of the trauma pager going off warning of an incoming casualty with as yet unknown injuries is often the sound of uncertainty and anxiety. When it becomes...