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Is it really working? Assessment versus real-life language measures

5 January 2022 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy | aphasia, confrontation naming, conversation, lexical retrieval, picture naming, word retrieval
Research in the field of language treatment and rehabilitation to date has used single-word naming as a controlled measure of outcome. Yet, given people do not actually communicate in single words, there is much debate as to whether this approach...

The ‘My Hearing Explained’ tool: audiologist and client perceptions

4 September 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants | Audiogram, IDA tool, behavioural measures, hearing assessment feedback, my hearing explained, perceptions, person-centred care, psycho-social/emotional
The study notes that the pure tone audiogram has been the primary clinical and counselling tool used by clinicians to assess and describe hearing thresholds to individuals and families since 1922. The Ida Institutes, ‘My Hearing Explained’ tool has become...

Audiologists’ perspectives on their ability to address hearing, social and emotional adult patient needs

4 March 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult | Counselling, adjustment, confidence, patient-centred care, rehabilitation
Authors suggest there is little evidence that hearing technology addresses patients’ emotional concerns related to their lived experience of hearing and communication difficulty. The study explores the notion of audiologic counselling and discusses the role of audiologists in supporting the...
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Does vocal tremor lead to changes in swallowing function?

7 January 2025 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Vocal tremor (VT) is a debilitating problem, but remains challenging to treat. Its pathophysiology remains indeterminate and there is a lack of consensus on phenotypes. Clinically, VT is often noted to be present in muscles outside of the larynx, including...

Be who you needed when you were younger

4 September 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants
Trainee audiologist, deaf England futsal player and deaf advocate Zara Musker discusses finding her own deaf identity: “It’s part of me but not all of me”. Am I an audiologist? A deaf England futsal player? An advocate for deaf individuals?...

Questionnaires to measure tinnitus severity

24 May 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
The handicap associated with tinnitus can arise from any combination of stress, anxiety, depression, emotional distress, insomnia, difficulties concentrating, or impairments in quality of life or everyday functioning. Measuring such handicap and determining clinical need is therefore far from trivial....

Lancet Commission on Hearing Loss

2 September 2022 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology
The Lancet Commission on Hearing Loss was convened in 2019, and its main report will be published in 2023. We learn more about it here. The Lancet Commission on Hearing Loss was convened in 2019, and was charged by Richard...

New challenges ahead for the hearing aid industry

1 November 2014
Technological advancements empower the world to hear In an increasing age of connectivity, the hearing aid industry is headed into new territory. Previously, to wear hearing aids was simply a mark of ageing. Now hearing aids are smarter and, as...

Teaching the art of cooking to a hearing impaired chef

1 July 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Today catering is a hugely popular career choice for many people and there’s a new cookery competition or programme on our TV screens every week. But beyond the media glamour, the kitchen is a challenging and noisy working environment, in...

By the people, for the people: a multidisciplinary facial nerve clinic with a difference

30 April 2020 | | ENTA - ENT
Facial nerve palsy is regularly seen in ENT clinics. Underlying diagnoses are excluded, and the patient is often then discharged to ‘see how it goes’, with or without an ophthalmology referral. Here, Catherine Meller describes how she and her team...

Implicit bias in audiology and wider healthcare

6 January 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
What is implicit bias and how might it affect patient outcomes in hearing healthcare? Yovina Khiroya provides insight into the terminology and the effect on people and service delivery. As much as possible within healthcare, we try to reduce implicit...

COVID-19 in China: the experience of an ENT team

30 April 2020 | | ENTA - Covid-19, ENTA - ENT
In January, we first heard of COVID-19. As we currently do battle with it on our own shores, colleagues in China share their story with us as life there slowly and cautiously begins to return to normal and the country...