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Educational audiologists: adding value, bridging gaps

1 September 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Educational audiology provides a vital link between health and education by supporting children with hearing loss in educational settings. Joy Rosenberg presents an overview of the training route available in the United Kingdom. Students in lecture. Educational audiologists greatly enhance...

Starkey Hearing Institute - Zambia: Bridging the Hearing Health Access Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa

7 January 2020 |
Here, we continue exploring audiology training routes across the world with a focus on bridging the Hearing Health Access Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa. This article is provided by Alfred Mwamba, AuD, who is the Executive Director for the Starkey Hearing...

Long-term outcomes of children and young people with cochlear implants

5 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
Introduction Profound childhood hearing loss has a huge impact on early communication skills, the acquisition of spoken language, and hence on educational attainments and employment prospects. Over the centuries, educators of the deaf attempted to overcome the challenge by using...

Adult hearing screening: consideration for a holistic model

14 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Background Adult-onset hearing impairment is a highly prevalent and undertreated chronic problem that poses a significant burden of disease worldwide [1]. It is usually gradual and diagnosed and managed approximately 10 years after adults have first experienced hearing difficulties [2]....

Workplace culture: observations of audiology in Northern England and Western Australia

29 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Working with a diverse workforce and coping with transition forced me to consider the importance of cultural differences in the workplace. Only by trying to understand these differences can you understand others’ behaviour and what motivates the team. I have...

Lyric 24/7 hearing: could it help those with tinnitus?

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
About Lyric Hearing Since its launch in 2008, Lyric represents the first and only device of its kind establishing a new category of hearing solution: 24/7 extended wear. Lyric is placed several millimetres within the ear canal, near the tympanic...

A person-centred approach to telehealth

1 March 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
“The time when telehealth was a remote, abstract concept has come to an end”. Deborah Ferrari and Lise Lotte Bundesen discuss how to advance person-centred care in hearing rehabilitation through online tools and training. The time when telehealth was a...

Knowledge is power: the power of mobile technologies to enhance hearing-related knowledge

1 March 2017 | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
In recent years, the widespread use of smartphones has made it increasingly possible to improve knowledge, understanding and delivery of hearing healthcare. Melanie Ferguson tells us about the advances in mobile-health applications. Think back to five years ago - what...

User perspectives of online audiological rehabilitation programmes

1 March 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Recent research shows that online audiological rehabilitation programmes have the potential to improve the quality of life of hearing aid users. However, there are still areas that need need improvement. Elisabet Thorén discusses some of the problems people face when...

Facing up to the challenge of behavioural observation in infant hearing assessment

31 October 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
The ability to assess detection and discrimination of speech by infants has proved elusive. Dr Iain Jackson and colleagues discuss how new technologies and fresh approaches might offer valuable insight into young infants’ behavioural responses to sound. The limits of...

Cochlear implantation in children with single-sided deafness: rationale and early findings

31 October 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Cochlear Implantation (CI) in children with single-sided deafness (SSD) is a controversial treatment option. Profs Karen Gordon, Papsin and Cushing discuss the rationale and early findings on the relative success of achieving binaural hearing for SSD with CI. If you’d...

Multifrequency tympanometry

1 March 2019 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
There are many good reasons to start using multifrequency tympanometry as opposed to a traditional, single 226Hz probe tone. Here, Leigh Martin of Interacoustics discusses the uses and benefits. Tympanometry is a core test in the audiologist’s test battery. In...